But Busch and Brox aren't interested in abstractions and philosophizing.
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We had some nice conversations, started philosophizing about all sorts of stuff.
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At a time of increasing division, his philosophizing evinces an underlying generosity.
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Like so many Kander and Ebb show tunes, the song doesn't waste time philosophizing.
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But no philosophizing is needed to figure out the first step: Get off your behind.
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Beyond the philosophizing, the financial crisis is a villain working behind the scenes throughout Spettacolo.
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The formula of deceptively sophisticated funk and sardonic philosophizing would become Steely Dan's calling card.
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One moment she's philosophizing about cheese and the next strangers want to take over her ship.
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Abstract thinking may make for good philosophizing, but it's a buzzkill when it comes to relationships.
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Now we get a big show with the chance to activate some of that earlier philosophizing.
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But what's really most ridiculous about "Batman v Superman" is its lugubrious solemnity and generic philosophizing.
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They are full of so much rich orchestration and abstract philosophizing as to collectively cause indigestion.
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I may have said something about the impermanent nature of all things, but philosophizing didn't help.
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"Beyond this address is darkness," says one of those characters, a retro videogame boss taken to philosophizing.
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And would it deliver on the combination of action and philosophizing that made us love the original?
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Complacency, incompetence and sterile elitist philosophizing have created problems that will take a long time to solve.
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Will is so committed to his Big Move that he grits his teeth and endures Ken's philosophizing.
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"Joker," an empty, foggy exercise in second-hand style and second-rate philosophizing, has none of that.
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In the midst of all this philosophizing, The Clasp manages to be a warm and funny romp.
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Before Elbakyan was a pirate, she was an aspiring scientist with a knack for philosophizing and computer programming.
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Doctors and nurses aren't philosophizing about these approaches as they make long rounds and rush to treat patients.
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And for all their high-minded philosophizing, these books' geeky humor remains a big part of their appeal.
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"Rough Night" switches the gender lineup from "Very Bad Things" but with less (shallow) philosophizing and heterosexual panic.
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And we think of Socrates as a gadfly, philosophizing in the street and somehow speaking truth to power.
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Thankfully, Makenzi's entrance put an entire to philosophizing about whether or not literal teddy bear Kenny King is aggressive.
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But in order for that philosophizing to occur, something else has to happen first: the thing has to work.
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On the matter of camp, does Zellweger herself see Anne — with her bows, arrows, and solo philosophizing — as camp?
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Miraculously, she shines through her lover's philosophizing about love and memory, about which he has little original to say.
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These stories allow for a lot of armchair philosophizing: What we would do if it all got dire overnight?
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But Brennan's dime-store philosophizing was just the opening soliloquy of a day of well-choreographed, perfectly dull theater.
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His armchair philosophizing ("The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation") wouldn't be out of place on Twitter.
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But as energized as he is philosophizing, he seems almost bored as Bernard takes Theresa out of the picture.
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" Later in the episode, he keeps philosophizing: "The self is a kind of fiction, for hosts and humans alike.
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Even in satirical and vaudevillian modes (as in the trio of philosophizing town drunks), these performers respect their characters.
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Gossiping is a kind of philosophizing, a way to think about the challenges people face, how they confront those challenges.
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Actually, he says, it's this group of men who are the deluded ones, and calls their philosophizing self-pitying nonsense.
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The language of her script, which combines Shakespearean pastiche with Pirandellian philosophizing and latter-day jokiness, doesn't always flow melodically.
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I didn't think about it in terms of philosophizing as to the two sides of the coin of law and criminality.
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They accuse him of putting on airs, of "philosophizing" ("to philosophize meant talking like the class enemy, the haves , the rich folk ").
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While we were goofing off and hanging out and philosophizing, we were just hanging out but we didn't realize he was working.
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Cavell enacted this idea in his own philosophical explorations, though he knew that philosophizing in this fashion was by its nature risky.
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The benevolent tugs between his chill philosophizing and Callahan's indulgent egotism have a relaxed, buddy-movie appeal; he's the tonic in Callahan's gin.
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Again, some of it is very recognizable: Bill and Ted philosophizing with ancient Greeks and having famous figures deliver their history report, for example.
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Who cares if the surrounding sci-fi philosophizing or whatever handwaving reasons are invented for both Neo and Trinity to be alive make sense?
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There's also a lot of New Age palm reading and philosophizing on life and our choices, not all of which melds easily with the experience.
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Yet as Forrester's book demonstrates, Rawls's approach to philosophizing about politics was never the only one, however much his influence has made it seem so.
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Along with screenwriter Vasily Solovyov, he pruned a handful of the original novel's subplots and worked the thorny historical philosophizing into a palatable episodic structure.
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In "The Nicomachean Ethics," Aristotle argues that true human flourishing requires activities like philosophizing that are pursued for no other reason than their intrinsic quality.
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"'Vikings' was admirably focused and engaging, its story easy to follow and its requisite elements of family soap opera and philosophizing relatively restrained," he wrote.
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Last year, many publications pointed out that in the presidential campaign, he never let loose even a chuckle, leading to much speculation and some philosophizing.
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Allan spent two and a half years researching and philosophizing about the anus, and he eventually wrote Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus.
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As usual, the media (and social media) had a field day, discussing notable sales, evaluating the fitness of the art market, and philosophizing over creative capitalism.
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" Our critic says the film itself is not interesting enough to argue about, calling it "an empty, foggy exercise in secondhand style and second-rate philosophizing.
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His adventures — shootouts, bar fights and poker hands punctuated by musical numbers and bouts of genial, straight-to-camera philosophizing — set the tone for what follows.
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Lopatin ended the podcast by philosophizing about his role in music, referring to himself as a "science fiction musician," a new term for the musical lexicon.
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If everything goes right, Change Agent could be a must-see sci-fi blockbuster along the lines of Minority Report, blending clever philosophizing with non-stop action.
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More than philosophizing on what the prison industrial complex does to communities, black-ish went deeper, by seriously considering what a life behind bars does to individuals.
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It superficially resembles one of those ubiquitous cable-television shows in which a semi-celebrity bounces around the globe tasting the food and philosophizing with the locals.
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"No outsider has ever understood me so profoundly and precisely," he tells Ester, who falls hard for this poppycock since she's long on philosophizing and short on sense.
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As for those without a fixed part in the new scheme of things, they're the same old kvetchers of yore, doomed to circular philosophizing and self-destructive drinking.
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Pizzolatto may get too caught up in macho philosophizing about the nature of good and evil, but he's internalized a lot of what makes the best crime fiction work.
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These days, with the circus ambling toward its final farewell, Mr. Iverson does less presiding than marveling and philosophizing over this "theater of the impossible" and the talent it boasts.
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Those are the characters from "No Exit," the 1944 play by Jean-Paul Sartre that is obviously the structural model for "Discord," folks whose philosophizing fractiousness is much missed here.
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But viewed in the context of Linklater's obsession with time, these moments take on a kind of poignancy, because this kind of philosophizing is most common in adolescence and in college.
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He's an inheritor of late 1990s New York underground rap radicals MF Doom, Cannibal Ox and Anti-Pop Consortium, a tone-poet abstractionist seeking out the overlap between philosophizing and catatonia.
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The show, of course, features the "Peanuts" gang singing and philosophizing through vignettes from little-kid existence: a nail-biting baseball game, a daunting book report, anxiety over a favorite blanket.
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In this coming-of-age tale, Mike resides with his mom and moves from job to job, pulling us with him every step, never condescending, sometimes philosophizing and only occasionally preaching.
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Covenant leans into its predecessor's most alienating aspects – its philosophizing, its contempt for humanity – and delivers a darkly compelling rumination on creation, destruction, the purpose of life, and the value of humankind.
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On one side of a long, narrow room are eight research projects, their individual findings incorporated into a chalkboard wall of macrocosmic design philosophizing that would put A Beautiful Mind to shame.
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" This kind of convoluted philosophizing to legitimate a flimsy artistic premise wishes to align itself with, or at least to appropriate, the Duchampian honesty that claims "It's art because I say so.
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By beginning with a long riff on oral sex, she invites comparisons with Jacqueline Novak's recent show on the subject, "Get on Your Knees," which finds laughs by waxing poetic and philosophizing.
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At the opening, he acknowledged that it sometimes takes several tries to get the right kind of conversational arc — not every customer service representative indulges in metaphysical philosophizing, but some are surprisingly sympathetic.
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The alt-right became a political force, trolling America with obscure philosophizing, pro-Trump messages, and outright racism, while Richard Spencer gave Regnery's movement of aging white nationalists a clean-shaven, camera-ready face.
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And the philosophizing itself was fascinating, though the language barrier prevents me from assessing whether Murata really knows of what he speaks or just drops names to legitimize whatever he wants to say next.
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"While all these exuberant festivities and gatherings allow us to have fun and mingle, at a deeper level, the Sagittarian-ruled month is a time well-spent on self-reflection and philosophizing," Montúfar adds.
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In the case of The Body, Davis and Fisher deliver some of the key elements of an exploitation film — namely, a handful of gory murders — between scenes that balance gruesome slapstick with high-minded philosophizing.
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If I spent half as much time philosophizing about the inscrutable machinations of the human mind as I do fussing over my skin, I suspect I'd be unstoppable, a kind of 21st-century Bergson with boobs.
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He believed in the power of positive thinking, in bucking up; he counseled action, and not just philosophizing, in the face of uncertainty; he may have even, from time to time, turned his frown upside down.
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This week we heard Elliot wondering if his deep contempt for E Corp was a result of his "my dorm room philosophizing run amok," which might strike skeptics as a succinct critique of this paranoid series.
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And philosophy should have known better: From Diogenes of Sinope and Augustine to Pascal, from Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer and Leopardi to Nietzsche, Mishima and Cioran, there has been a long tradition of philosophizing on the human abyss.
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Filled with short strings of provocative political dictums, and composed in all caps to resemble newspaper headlines, the posters could read like Maoist screeds, right-wing rants or thoughtful philosophizing, depending upon where one started or stopped.
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But in a place not given to deep philosophizing — where the literary canon is defined by the razor-edged crime novels of Elmore Leonard — almost no one here seems entirely sure what to make of this moment's Detroit.
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Kisner displays an impressive range of narrative modes in this book, bouncing nimbly between gravity (in her ethnography and her bird's-eye philosophizing) and comic relief, which she peppers in just when our heads are starting to spin.
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Nearly all of Linklater's films indulge in at least a little bush league philosophizing, and it's never entirely clear whether the director is enamored of his characters for considering life's larger questions, mocking them for doing so, or both.
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Too often just when you wish she'd tell us more about him or the faith his work has nurtured in her, she turns away, telling us instead about a book party in Manhattan or midnight philosophizing on Parisian roofs.
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Indefatigably translated by Fagan, "Hold Fast Your Crown," with its biblical title (see Revelation 3:11), is an occasionally entertaining rant, larded with pages of philosophizing, long plot summaries of other people's films and paraphrases of other people's remarks.
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Call it needless philosophizing, but at a time when the political far-right considers memes a form of cultural warfare, bone hurting juice is refreshingly simple and dumb, free from the baggage of weaponized ideas designed for insurgent Twitter campaigns.
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Suffering tends to happen discreetly, between the section breaks; setbacks are met by good-natured philosophizing or brisk moral bracing of the sort espoused by Isabel Dalhousie, the scholar-heroine of "The Sunday Philosophy Club," another of his Edinburgh series.
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There are, in other words, lots of familiar themes blowing around in "Godless," which derives its name from Griffin's twisted philosophizing -- imbued with a calm certainty about how he is, or isn't, going to die -- when he's not doing terrible things.
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"[While] Pozzi was performing in erotic cabarets and filming cheesy porn flicks, she lived a parallel life as a respected pundit on television talk shows, philosophizing about sexual freedom or holding forth on gay rights or denouncing the Mafia," the Times wrote.
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To outsiders their music is a strange proposition, combining outsider art, psych-prog flourishes, and faux-deep philosophizing—something like swirling together the Cliffnotes to Brave New World, a VHS of Fight Club, and five sheets of acid in a test tube.
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What that is, exactly, is a little ephemeral, but the best I can deconstruct a BioShock-y game is a first-person, story-driven experience with elaborate set pieces, insufferable but strangely appetizing philosophizing, and lots of tiny details to reward observant players.
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Though some of the film was shot by NASA itself, much of it was made for a movie called "Moonwalk One," a strange combination of educational documentary and blissed-out philosophizing that opened in New York at the Whitney Museum in 210.
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Imagine an off-brand remix of the Tom Hanks movie Castaway with better hair, an exponentially more attractive lead (Nancy unzips and re-zips her rash guard several times throughout the film), and almost none of the weighty philosophizing about human insignificance.
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The central theme of the Wachowskis' work is a kind of radical empathy — if you found yourself frustrated with how the Matrix sequels devolved into a bunch of philosophizing about the nature of consciousness and the self, well, the sisters had good intentions.
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His philosophizing serves to highlight two characters who exemplify the ways those born without privilege can (if they're lucky) advance: the protagonist's formidable regent-aunt, and a sex worker for whom the protagonist risks life and scandal, having fallen in love with her.
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When she's not playing up the earthy Hollywood diva role, Hawn sprinkles her feed with chipper philosophizing: a cat sleeping on a sleeping dog ("If they can get along … just think of our potential"); Hawn kissing a chimp on the lips ("Love has no boundaries").
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One of Wouk's achievements in these novels is to present a wide range of convincing, socially precise responses to Nazism, from von Roon's cold justification and Jastrow's self-enamored philosophizing to Rhoda's flakiness and the bankrupt dissipation of a man of the world like Tollever.
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The staging of the bowling alley encounter is more or less the same here and in "The Big Lebowski": We start with The Dude/Nikki bellying up to the bar and pull back to reveal the philosophizing mystery men who start talking to them.
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The closest comparison show I can think of for Lodge 493 is the 1990-1995 CBS series Northern Exposure, a small-town dramedy set in the burg of Cicely, Alaska, where a New York-raised doctor arrived to find a collection of quirky oddballs prone to philosophizing.
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If somebody was going to write a play about a philosopher, Socrates would be an obvious one to pick, because he had this interesting life in which his philosophy and his philosophizing came into the public life of his society and led to his being condemned to death.
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The book feels like an extended episode of "Black Mirror," and certainly has that show's taste for dark humor and high-concept philosophizing around our tech addiction, though what raises it above another clever-clever slab of science fiction is that its characters are complex and contradictory and real.
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They need their hit…" He pauses to taste a dish, exclaims, offers me a spoonful and then continues, philosophizing the oft-forgotten truth that giving a present provides a greater sense of satisfaction than receiving one, "that's what service is: It's about making people happy, and that's what we've concentrated on.
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As thrilling as the game's collection of polygonized action film set pieces can be — like the crowded elevator, the high-rise meeting room, and goon-filled back alley — its arch plot boils down to a couple twists, and a lot of vague philosophizing about control being an illusion, particularly in video games.
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Consider that your intro-level education to A Wrinkle in Time, Disney's upcoming fantasy epic about an ordinary teenager named Meg (newcomer Storm Reid) who's whisked on a cosmic adventure to find her missing scientist father (Chris Pine) with the help of three chimerical celestial beings who help her "wrinkle" time and space: philosophizing Mrs.
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" Don't look too hard for any thematic link between the world of George R.R. Martin and Paddy's Pub… although there are echoes of Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish's matter-of-fact philosophizing when the gas-addled gang watches cartoons to figure out how to solve their vermin problem, and comes away with the realization, "The mouse always wins… The cat keeps getting hurt.
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Perhaps best known for its work with Marshmello — who made his Monstercat debut in 2016 with the single "Alone," which led to the studio's first platinum record the following year — the digital label is a cultivator of new tracks, a producer and distributor of online tunes, but it's also synonymous with influencer management, video game streaming, and the philosophizing of copyright politics.
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The documentary intercuts scenes from Van Damme's biggest movies with interviews and footage of his surreal existence as a forty-something former movie star living in Los Angeles; he bumps into Lou "the Hulk" Ferrigno at the gym (and comments on his beautiful body), demonstrates a childlike enthusiasm for kickboxing, and holds forth with quasi-deep, rambling philosophizing (about the self-help concept of "awareness").
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Quasi-religious philosophizing takes on another role in Zayne Akyol's Gulîstan, Land of Roses, whose storytelling is bookended by head-on, close-up 'death does not exist' introspections by a Kurdish female soldier named Sozdar, as women fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) train on mountains to battle the Islamic State; we hear many of their stories about escaping an oppressive, woman-hating culture.
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"The Second Machine Age" by Erik Brynjolffson and Andrew McAfee "The Second Machine Age" by Erik Brynjolffson and Andrew McAfee I would come to wonder, is philosophizing about "the future of work" just a way the richest, most influential people in the world convince themselves they care deeply about their employees, when what they're doing is more like strategizing how to continue to be exorbitantly powerful in the decades to come?
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Much of the book is taken up with evidence-based philosophizing, with charts showing a worldwide increase in life expectancy, a decline in life-shattering diseases, ever better education and access to information, greater recognition of female equality and L.G.B.T. rights, and so on — even down to data showing that Americans today are 37 times less likely to be killed by lightning than in 1900, thanks to better weather forecasting, electrical engineering and safety awareness.
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