1. Martin is a quiet, contemplative sort of chap.

2. He gave her a contemplative look.

3. Her mood was calm and contemplative.

4. The bookish, the contemplative life.

5. She was in contemplative mood.

6. The solitary life did not mean that a contemplative was deprived of all human contact, however.

7. Unlike the contemplative Hawthorne, Dickens could not wait to see the Falls.

8. It will cease with time, whereas contemplative life may be begun in time, but it will be perfected beyond it.

9. This state is the goal of the contemplative life, if not here, then certainly after death.

10. Through these channels the contemplative ideals developed in monastic communities found a wider audience.

11. The mood is contemplative and cool, even introspective; associations are immediately religious.

12. The Educorp catalogue also lists some more contemplative, or just curious, examples, including the Bogie Stack.

13. In practice active and contemplative life get in each other's way.

14. Does aesthetic art and mystical art and contemplative art offer alternatives to the horror and humiliation in which three-quarters of mankind lives?

15. Woosnam and Olazabal have been in more contemplative mood after further moderate performances in New Orleans.

16. This ritual process enacts a pattern which can be translated into inner experience in the contemplative discipline.

17. To stay and luxuriate in ordinary emotions and sensations means that the contemplative is trapped in our normal limitations.

18. For himself, he finds that the sitting posture most effectively releases his contemplative energy.

19. Hundreds of other powers could be listed in the following table, from both contemplative sources and from sports.

20. Sovereigns are born for an active life, and not for an idle or contemplative existence.

21. This ideal of an essential continuity between active and contemplative life is often worked out in practice in terms of their opposition.

22. Again, the evidence of wills indicates increased lay interest in the literature of the contemplative life.

23. Morris further believed that forcing anyone to be active during the contemplative phase, or vice versa, causes utter misery.

24. Instead he explores a number of aspects that all inhere in a state of contemplative awareness of a reality beyond time.

24. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

25. Through a high level of devotional art they enact stages of the contemplative game - indeed provide means of play.

26. Yo mumbles to herself at the windows outlining her hairline with a contemplative index finger.

27. But both of these are distinct from intellectual, abstract or contemplative wisdom which was, for Aristotle, the highest goal.

28. But this is the mistake of ignorance, because they do not know what the contemplative life stands for.

29. History, the extension of human memory through time, is a contemplative luxury of advanced civilizations.

30. Seam progressed slowly, content to ignore commercial pressures and to concentrate on their contemplative music.

31. Philip was working on the electrical wiring of the top floor with the easy-paced contemplative manner of a workman.

32. They are all from the contemplative, strict and enclosed Order of the Carmelite in Darlington and are repeating history.

33. Life there is slow and contemplative.

34. Cedarquist looked after him with contemplative interest.

35. I went for long, contemplative walks by the river.

36. More and more are studying contemplative disciplines.

37. We cannot always be contemplative.

38. You are contemplative and analytical by nature.

39. Mary has a quiet, contemplative nature.

40. Carthusian: member of a contemplative order founded during the 11 th century by Saint Bruno.

41. The film's pacing is slow and its mood is contemplative.

42. The highest point reached by contemplative materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is contemplation of single individuals and of civil society.

43. Hemingway is done a bit contemplative, thought up a tweak.

44. In a pressed, blue button-down shirt and pleated dark slacks, he cracks open pistachios, contemplative but cagey.

45. A contemplative discourse , usually on a religious or philosophical subject.

46. From all accounts, he devoted himself to the martial art, attracted by both its physical demands and its contemplative philosophical core.

47. Schaumann said tacky Christmas decorations are detrimental to the contemplative nature of Christmas. "Many people are pulling away from over-the-top light shows in their apartments, " he added.

48. Their character lets my ground experience literal glamour, their character or let me touch, or let me sob deeply, or let me to one's heart's content laughs or make me contemplative flounder.

49. One day while taking a contemplative walk he came to a well, looked into it, and saw his donkey shape in the mirror-like water.

50. The Master Bedroom suite is accessed via a polycarbonate clad stair tower that is by day a contemplative space and by night, a lantern.

51. On Vancouver Island a soaked beach reflects a contemplative evening ride.

52. She seemed stilled, almost alarmed, at what had occurred, while the novelty, unpremeditation, mastery of circumstance disquieted him - palpitating, contemplative being that he was.

53. Arrange smoking cessation advice in contemplative of reducing or stopping tobacco consumption.

54. All that afternoon he wore dreamy[ ], contemplative appearance which in him was a mask of perplexity.

55. His attitude with regard to her, though it was contemplative and critical, was not judicial.

56. Had you been a hierarch monk meditating before the temple wall, I would have been burning in the hall as that stick of incense, in your company, for a while, with your contemplative solitude.

57. This beauty is not an outward decorative sensation, rather an inward contemplative enduring state of being.

58. While the oak trees should provide plenty of shade — along with pockets of contemplative space — the tapestries will give much of the memorial the feeling of an expansive outdoor stage set.

59. Taken by Alexander Gardner in 1865, the picture reveals a contemplative Lincoln, evidently exhausted and careworn.

60. Another of her famous, and more contemplative works, The Maybe (1995), involved displaying actress Tilda Swinton sleeping within a vitrine at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

61. These two painters represent very different styles: overblown and aggressive versus detailed and contemplative, respectively.