maundering

Moments of preening — “I am told that I have myself a certain prowess in the writing of prose” — alternate with fraudulent humility: “Once again I have been reviewing these reflections, only to increase my despondency. All is maundering, all is higgledy-piggledy, nowhere do I find consecutive logic.”

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

“Inside History” is rife with dreams, sex fantasies and maundering meditations on Jewishness, a longstanding obsession.

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.