Sentence examples for a sustained contemplation from inspiring English sources
But his performance is finally a magnificent stare into the abyss, a sustained contemplation of things we would rather not dwell upon but will ultimately have to face.
She is one of the most qualified of all the translators in this collection, most of whom are trained in classical Chinese poetry and modern fiction but not modern poetry, and her preface is an historically informed work of aesthetic judgment and a sustained contemplation on the poetics of place.
It is a sustained contemplation of death from the point of view of a wounded gunfighter (Rory Calhoun) who retires to a town named Sanctuary to watch his life ebb away.
The images sustain contemplation even though the physical appearance of the text edges into a state of no particulars.
His songs often began in contemplation and introversion — an isolated guitar line, a sustained "ooh," a few quiet words — only to pick up momentum in canny, attentive arrangements until, as in "The Wolves," a testament of solitude turned into a foot-stomping hoedown.
One speaker got a sustained ovation.
Perhaps for a work of such sustained rhapsodic contemplation it's just a bit too long, but the musical ideas themselves and the sureness with which Hayes uses them are so fresh that it hardly matters.
What is a sustaining cause?
Then, sitting alone at the piano and accompanying herself in a flowing semiclassical style that allows her voice and instrument to breathe as one, she sustained a mood of deep contemplation, turning four of her finest originals — "My Father," "Secret Gardens," the recent "Wings of Angels" and "The Blizzard" — into a memory suite.
A wild, sustained choral shriek.
