extemporize

Sensing an opportunity to extemporize, he looked around the chamber, pleased.

At the finale's close, after Alex has haltingly extemporized about whether she deserves all the terrible things that have happened to her and mulls the possibility of life after death, she shrugs.

But as Harrison proves with his clueless extemporizing, tossing a few people of color into arenas of whiteness and calling it progress can cement dishonest impressions of racial equality in place for decades.

Historically, chanteys – which are also spelled as "shanties" or "chanties" – began with a sing-out by a crew member recognized as "the chanteyman," usually someone prized for his voice and ability to extemporize.

In late August, near the end of his somnolent address on the South Front of the White House accepting the Republican nomination, Trump extemporized: "The fact is, we're here – and they're not."