Sentence examples similar to a pensive attitude from inspiring English sources

People stared, cocked their heads, or stood with hands clasped in pensive attitudes.

There was a pensive silence.

But he was in a pensive mood.

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

He resembled photographs of a pensive Walter Benjamin.

The guitarist begins a pensive cadence as the lights dim.

Instruments slowly join in, including a pensive solo violin.

Another is trying out a pensive, sultry look.

A pensive Galician girl casts her eyes downwards in Vigo.

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.