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A few successful venture capitalists get ribbed for their grandstanding, dubious blog pontifications, and general “Shark Tank”-ing.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020

During the first season, Lee Sizemore often bragged about his sophisticated storytelling, but in Shogun World, his pompous pontifications are laid bare.

From The Verge • May 20, 2018

In his determination to capture the zeitgeist of the 1980s in art, food, publishing and fashion, his smart observations are sometimes undercut by pontifications: “Art traps time. It just does.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2017

There were committees and commissions and secretariats and all sorts of pontifications about, well, what the heck to do we about this problem?

From Forbes • Jan. 19, 2015

Goddard’s pontifications were constant, and although Rowan often disagreed, he didn’t argue or voice his dissent.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman