Firstly, though, he reminded them of the "betrayals" of the last Labour government, which held power under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997 until 2010: "What we are engaged in right now is a process not just of
navel contemplation, as some people are accusing us of.
The time for
navel contemplation is not in the middle of a Super League season and certainly not in the middle of a match.
took during his failed reelection campaign because of his comment about "the vision thing." Consider also that many among us perceive "the vision thing" to be little more than unproductive
navel contemplation, fit only for a framed list of platitudes and destined to molder on a dark, obscure wall.
What most of the sensible car companies are doing is a touch of
navel contemplation.
Don't tell me Tony Morris, for example, hasn't gone through the odd period of
navel contemplation as he wonders what on earth has persuaded him to use up all his time, and that fine mind, on the family trees of a species we invented.
I'm getting sick of our sidestepping this." What's more, Kramer argues, many of the courses currently offered are grounded in "
navel contemplation"--gray issues that don't teach gay history, culture, or literature.
Frequently, the same pointless
navel contemplation goes on in the news pages and on the networks as well.
If Y Cyrff were the artful Welsh existentialist, literate deep thinkers shrouded in a cloak of
navel contemplation, then Crumblowers were 24-hour party people - a rumbling, tumbling, carousing confection of The Stone Roses and The Happy Mondays.
We've got to think big, we've got a lot of talent, we've got a huge amount of skill and creativity and sometimes we bury ourselves in our own
navel contemplation rather than being self-confident and bang ourowndrum a bit more.
