Sentence examples for a pensive mood from inspiring English sources

But he was in a pensive mood.

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

When we meet at his West Yorkshire home, Paul, dressed in a commemorative "56" hoodie, is in a pensive mood.

She came upon Gary seated by the window one day in a pensive mood and asked, "What are you thinking about, Gary boy?" And Gary boy answered: "Nussing".

Wearing an informal shirt and plain slacks, the youthful and somewhat shy Mr. McMillen set a pensive mood for his 70-minute program by opening with Mr. Stucky's "Album Leaves," a 10-minute suite of four movements.

Your films have a pensive mood to them; what do you think?

Only at the end did ebullience give way to a more pensive mood, which also brought out her best singing.

The three movements include the assertive "Proclamation"; the introverted and lyrical "Spontaneous Songs"; and "Dance," whose whirlwind fades into a more pensive mood.

It lurches forward to a grandiose opus that go will on for 20 minutes or more, then shift to a meditative, pensive mood just as quickly.

But turning 50 last year, along with the deaths of his mother and his father-in-law, found the actor-comedian in a more pensive mood.

The opening drum roll references Sly and the Family Stone's classic "Stand!," but, instead of that song's lyrical affirmations and musical ebullience, D'Angelo and Foster create a more pensive mood.