pontificate

1 The central meaning of his pontificate is to restore papal authority ( Conor Cruise O'Brien )

他任职教皇的中心意图就是要恢复教皇权力 ( 康纳·克鲁斯·奥布赖恩 )

2 Whether your friend was pontificating about your family problems or talking nonstop about her own, doing all the talking kills a conversation.

3 In the closing years of the pontificate of Leo XIII.

4 He pontificates, he sings sentimental songs, he sweet-talks and browbeats political rivals and allies, and generally behaves like a guy having the time of his life.

5 He’s not the only one: Anyone’s likely to look into the distance and pontificate, yet the tone never feels detached.

6 Cue much intellectual globe-trotting and arcane pontificating as the novel transforms into a road trip of ideas.

7 Anthony Anderson's Dre pontificates about the sheer disrespect of Columbus Day's observance while Juneteenth, which celebrates actual emancipation as opposed to a mythical interpretation of a historical figure's accomplishment, remained unofficial.

8 He was elected to the pontificate last year.

9 Despite much pontificating about journalists who write "the truth", the reality is that only one person knows the Truth and He/She does not exist.

10 during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II

11 There’s sardonic humor in some scenes: as an anthropology grad student pontificates about his thesis, she notices, “He cannot keep his eyes on my face. . . . Aaron is adamant my breasts should know about this.”

12 Politicians like to pontificate the reason about falling standards.

政治家喜欢自大地表示下降标准的原因。

13 Pope Francis, who has made mercy a key theme of his pontificate, is a member of the generation after Merton’s.

14 "There are times during the hour when he has the intelligently rambling air of a headmaster pontificating at speech day," she said.

15 Had Mr. Trump not won the election, Hollywood could have continued to ignore Mr. Woolery and Mr. Young, 59, as two more pontificating cranks: Ho-hum, and back to NPR.

16 I'll just say that they're both pontificating on what it means to be a good person and who is a good person.

17 Every so often, when I’m pontificating about opera, in print or in person, a reader or an editor will ask me, “But what exactly is bel canto?”

18 "It is time," Helms pontificated in a 1960s TV editorial, “to face, honestly and sincerely, the purely scientific statistical evidence of natural racial distinctions in group intellect.”

19 He has excoriated Guy Fieri as a cruel joke, and he pontificates on divisive topics like interracial dating and shark fin soup.

20 The action stops in its tracks when Harcourt-Reilly pontificates, but picks up, strangely, when stuck in the loneliness and stasis of ordinary life.

1 自以为是

full of oneself

2 教皇职位

papacy Holy See papal

3 主教职位

miter