One recent morning, in the faded mining town of Bessemer, Alabama, a judge named Lynneice Washington presided thoughtfully over a room of people packed into battered church pews that had been repurposed as court benches.
Some programs, like the elegant Palm Desktop software that Apple thoughtfully includes with every new Macintosh, store PIM data in a folder named after its user.
Afterwards, at the family dinner, an anonymous and well-intentioned schemer -- probably one of my aunts -- thoughtfully placed my name tag next to Jerry Falwell's in a vain hope that Jerry might influence my return to the fold.
Whatever anyone wished to name it, Wegner's sparse, graphic chair formed by 11 pieces of thoughtfully curved and tapered timber brought modern Danish design to the adoring attention of American architects, media and consumers.
"We're running out of dead people to name post offices after," suggested the committee's vice chairman, Gary Ackerman of Queens, thoughtfully.
But when a killer drops off a manuscript in which he confesses to one murder and thoughtfully provides the next name on his hit list, Loogan feels compelled to horn in on the investigation headed by his girlfriend, a detective on the police force in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Organize the conference call thoughtfully.
The monks, who just bought a new roof for one of their idyllic abbey's guest houses, have thoughtfully added this caution: "The name 'tonic wine' does not imply health-giving or medicinal properties". But in 1976 my pregnant mum was actually prescribed Buckie by her doctor.
"That's his first name, the caller said, adding thoughtfully, "At least that's what he told me.
