brooded

He brooded over the dwindling supplies of clean water and that too many people were competing for too little of it.

These widely circulated comments are often received in isolation, to be interpreted without context and brooded over in silence.

He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.”

“It continues to be brooded and cared for by both Elmer and Lima, who are doing a great job,” Fox said in a zoo statement.

It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded.