Sentence examples for a pensive from inspiring English sources

There was a pensive silence.

But he was in a pensive mood.

A pensive Galician girl casts her eyes downwards in Vigo.

After a pensive pause, she signed, "Laurel and Hardy".

He has a pensive look in his eyes.

He resembled photographs of a pensive Walter Benjamin.

He also created a seated figure of a pensive James Joyce for Joyce's grave in Zurich.

A pensive slow movement has passages of tinkling sounds that suggest a harmonically pungent music box.

"Earnest melodies ride a cresting storm of guitars or penetrate a pensive fog.

A pensive soundtrack of Edith Piaf and Ella Fitzgerald played on the stereo.

I also found Leung, for all his bonhomie, in a pensive mood.