maundering

Yesterday, I was maundering on about what might happen in the 2024 US election.

Instead we get some philosophical maundering and nifty, nimble tricks.

This is the Beckettian strain in Scorsese: his characters are no longer tough guys, but wizened old figures maundering away to each other, immobile in wheelchairs or senior-citizen home seats, with blankets over their knees.

But nothing can be done unless more of this country pays attention to the realities in working America in the coming election year and not to the dark maundering of demagogic doomsayers.

In the process, “The Twice-Born” becomes a moving, if maundering, riff on what it means to be modern.