How To Use Philosophizing In A Sentence

  • But it is as improbable that a healthy state of the soul will be produced by this kind of philosophizing as that a healthy state of the body will be produced by this kind of medical treatment. [ Human Traits and their Social Significance
  • You've been philosophizing about your mortality a bit too much lately, and that's a sure sign of a much-needed vacation.
  • `I suppose this is no time for philosophizing about how two wrongs can never make a right. SAN ANDREAS
  • European philosophers from Plato to Nietzsche have begun their philosophizing from a starting-point which implied, as an essential part of their "organum" of enquiry, the possession by the human soul of some sort of aesthetic vision. The Complex Vision
  • But our village friend, though perhaps constructively right in his philosophizing, was certainly very defective in his acquaintance with the time-honoured art of rhabdomancy. Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
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  • The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing.
  • The time of philosophizing congresses was over; instead of the old portraits, a light patch shone from Ivanov's wallpaper; philosophical incendiarism had given place to a period of wholesome sterility. Autumn
  • While it is true that a literary criticism not bound to academe might still give attention to "philosophizing," et. al., it is hard to imagine that such criticism would so willingly apologize for aesthetically inferior work as academic criticism in its current guise is forced to do. Principles of Literary Criticism
  • The General was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems.
  • As always, there is no end to the delight in accompanying Isabel as she makes her way toward the heart of every problem: philosophizing, sleuthing, and downright snooping, in her inimitableand inimitably charmingfashion. The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith: Book summary
  • How the future is, is related in turn to how we perceive it at any one or more points in time--a lot of this "philosophizing" has to do with who we are as individuals, our culture, and whether things develop along the lines we wish for or are perhaps expecting. Posthuman Blues
  • The General was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems.
  • The General was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems. PROSECUTOR
  • However, maybe because my encounter in the subway station with the Hassid has sparked some deeper reflection about how one appears to others, or how one thinks one appears to others, I find myself extemporaneously philosophizing that even though we all know David in various ways, and although many of us are completely unaware of lots of aspects of David's life, we all know the same David. Angela Himsel: Excuse Me, Are You...?
  • There is something a bit skewed, a bit loopy about Lonergan people who wend their way through life widdershins, and Lonergan talk that is really front-stoop philosophizing.
  • For the present, what is needed most is more cooperative work, and less competitive philosophising.
  • With its chocolate box cinematography and cracker-barrel philosophising, the film is the worst kind of period drama.
  • As always, there is no end to the delight in accompanying Isabel as she makes her way toward the heart of every problem: philosophizing, sleuthing, and downright snooping, in her inimitableand inimitably charmingfashion. The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith: Book summary
  • And again ... "what are the motive-forces which drive us into this process which we call philosophizing? The Complex Vision
  • For it could not help bringing up the unget-aroundable fact that, all gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4.
  • We can posit a speculative metaphysics which can explain these (it’s my amateur hobby), but if you’re honest about it, I doubt this kind of philosophizing can get you to religious beliefs of the usual sort. Please Tell Me What “God” Means
  • We cultivate a simple direct relationship with our being-no philosophizing, no moralizing, no judgments.
  • With the bounding energy of youth, with the busy toil of middle age, men are not apt to spend time in philosophizing. Relations of the United States with Canada and Great Britain
  • Cicero says that philosophizing is nothing other than getting ready to die. Morbid Montaigne « So Many Books
  • To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. Rene Descartes 
  • The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing.
  • A lot of feminism seems to be about philosophising the whole movement, talks about theory and not much action.
  • The Invisibles is a wild, disorientating, surreal adventure which splices big screen thrills to situationist philosophising.
  • He was on his way home; he could put behind him all the morbid philosophizing and the chimeric appearance of his mother. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • You, for instance, he calls a philosophizing old woman, and me a dissolute buffoon and scamp. The Caesars
  • They spend their time philosophizing about the mysteries of life.
  • The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
  • The book's zonked philosophizing about the nature of reality wears a little thin, but Lethem's claustrophobic vision of a world where everything is connected and nothing is as it seems proves both funny and frightening. Chronic City: Summary and book reviews of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem.
  • The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
  • After my five seconds of philosophizing, the next thing I noticed was my rapid loss of manual dexterity.
  • And what about scientists who routinely engage in philosophizing? 2009 August - Telic Thoughts
  • My general point is that the attempt to bridge that gap should be a necessary condition for all philosophizing.
  • You like to spend time philosophizing and thinking in broad general terms.
  • Teaching Lou famous aphorism Kai people philosophizing and inspiring.
  • I find Sully a bit intellectually lazy and prone to the kind of kneejerk reaction and armchair philosophizing that works well in blogs but not so well on paper. The Daily Dish: Strange bedpartners
  • The General was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems.
  • Already famous as the inventor of the lightning conductor, his homespun philosophizing and simple style charmed the world of the Court and the intellectual salons alike.
  • What had people been talking about or what were they all kind of philosophizing about the possibility of how this death took place? CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2002

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