What is "pundit"

Usage examples of "pundit".

Remember that when they took their walks in the forest at Hackwood, the whole world of culture held that true genius had expired with Pope, and this view was oracularly supported by Warburton and such-like pundits.

Radical ideologues, faced with Niagara-size flows of polluter money from Coors, Olin, Scaife, and others, set up magazines and newspapers and cultivated a generation of young pundits, writers and propagandists, giving them lucrative sinecures inside right-wing think tanks, now numbering more than 560, from which they bombard the media with carefully honed messages justifying corporate profit-taking.

Of course, all the usual SETI pundits -- Seth Shostak and Paul Shuch in the U.

Now that he had attained maturity these unfortunate pundits found themselves hopelessly outclassed, and reduced to mere clerks, bottle-washers and errand-boys.

The stranger, as he speculates on these pandemoniac noises, is able to realize the idea that were they discontinued the excitement necessary for the minds of the pundits might be lowered, and that activity might be lessened, and evil results might follow.

Rama and Lakshman found themselves transformed into the spitting likeness of two shaven-pated chotti-sprouting brahmin acolytes, while Vishwamitra had become a paunchy, jolly-looking, red-faced pundit dressed in ritual saffron.

During my second term, when the Republicans were trying to run me out of town and a lot of the pundits were saying I was dead meat, Anthony Mangun called me and asked if he and Mickey could come see me for twenty minutes.

They should pay attention to the pronouncements of presidents and general secretaries and all the multichanneled pundits.

As Lopez was walking up and down, with a smiling face and leisurely pace, now reading an advertisement and now watching the contortions of some amazed passenger, a certain pundit asked him his business.

Thus when the British Mission led by Francis Younghusband forced its way to Lhasa in 1904 there were not only fluent speakers of Tibetan amongst its officers, but thanks to the painstaking reports of Indian agents, the so-called Pundits, who were secretly sent to survey Tibet after 1866, there even existed already remarkably full and accurate accounts of its religion, customs and geography.

Contact with Tibet was confined to unofficial intermediaries and some of the country was explored by the so-called Pundits, specially trained Indians speaking Tibetan, who travelled through the country, often at some risk, observing manners, map-making and noting the system of government.

After church, Mr Gazebee tried to get hold of him, for there was still much to be said, and many hints to be given, as to how Frank should speak, and, more especially, as to how to hold his tongue among the learned pundits in and about Chancery Lane.

Singer Sheryl Crow summarized the views of all the celebrity pundits with a specially made sequined T-shirt that said WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER.

It is Newsweek, the Washington Post, pundits and columnists launching these attacks.

And then Mr Gazebee came down from town, with an intimation that it behoved the squire himself to go up that he might see certain learned pundits, and be badgered in his own person at various dingy, dismal chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the Temple, and Gray's Inn Lane.