Sentence examples for Upon contemplating from inspiring English sources

Upon contemplating the processes of vegetation and the "agitation" of seas and lakes, Priestley envisioned the means by which a benevolent nature restored the "common air" that had been "vitiated and diminished" by such "noxious" processes as combustion and respiration.

The psychologist Jonathan Haidt (2003) has given empirical evidence for an emotion he calls "elevation," which is something like awe and admiration upon contemplating the morally admirable.

We reach a moral judgment by feeling approval or disapproval upon contemplating someone's trait in a disinterested way from the common point of view.

Reid glosses Hume and Smith's theory as being that "Moral Approbation or Disapprobation is not an Act of the Judgement, which, like all acts of judgment, must be true or false, it is only a certain Feeling, which, from the constitution of human nature, arises upon contemplating certain characters of qualities of mind cooly and impartially" (EAP 5.5, 301 2).

However, whilst recognising this limitation, our review findings will help inform those currently embarking upon or contemplating an IMPF, and direct further methodological research within IPD meta-analysis.

We shouldn't waste our time contemplating upon things other than the Supreme Being.

The obscure rule that the majority has relied upon contemplates a responsible president who will consult with the agencies affected and reject a misleading and partisan declassification effort.

The rest of the time it was to be a porcelain throne for a rice-farming people who described their normal lives as "back to the sky, face to the ground, forever" to sit upon, and contemplate the joys of life in the West.

What have you done to steal a little extra time and reflect, act upon or contemplate a little or big reinvention in your life?

It's very different seeking solitude in order to remove yourself from frustration, anxiety, and irritation of people versus seeking solitude to grow and develop as you reflect upon and contemplate the world around you and how you fit into it.

Articles purporting to be news spent thousands upon thousands of words contemplating whether he would enter the race, to the point that before he even entered, he was running second in the national polls for the Republican nomination.