ponderer

He is, for one thing, a ponderer, and something of a game player.

Leah had seen herself as an intellectual, a thinker, a ponderer.

He was a great ponderer.

Never much of ponderer, Mr. Ryan seems unmoved by the criticism and the kudos.

Reminiscing on the other trade chiefs, he described Mr. Yeutter's predecessor, William E. Brock 3d, as a "ponderer, who came up with amazingly rich and deep concepts."

(Get rid of that last pause, and place the second of the emphases more on inequities than on ponderer; the current rhythmic and intonational pattern thoroughly misconstrues the construction.)

Jeff Jarvis, a journalist and prominent ponderer of the media, wrote a piece at the Huffington Post with the title, "We Want Our Al Jazeera English Now."

It always seemed to me that Greene was rather safe, and that all this business of his being furtive, the tedious spy side of his personality, opium-eater and ponderer of damnation, was rather a pose.

Chris Serle, on BBC Radio 4: As he talked about his life and played his catholic selection of Desert Island discs, it became clear that he's a DOER and not a PONDERER on life's inequities.

The most immediate ponderer is Bill Clinton, who is about to offer a grudging renewal for a further year of China's 'most favoured nation' trading status with America - jargon which means simply that China is treated as well, or badly, as most other countries.