Yet the overall mood is more pensive than it is prurient.
Next was the high jump, the event she was more pensive about having had only four practice sessions this year.
Herzog is known for making delphic pronouncements, and his words tend to be more pensive than the sweeping absolutes that architects like Koolhaas adopt.
The mood is more pensive than prurient, with Ms. Neuwirth's character presented as a soft, battered, sentimental creature, like a ragdoll that has been played with too hard.
The battered Nasdaq gave a little jump for joy as investors worked out that, if somebody was ready to part with good money to get their hands on a fading star like Lycos, the whole sector surely deserved a lift.The second reaction was more pensive.
Even the show's more pensive moments, like a torch medley of "Moanin' Low" and "Body and Soul," are treated lightly, with Ms. Sullivan's thumbnail sketch of Libby Holman, the scandal-ridden singer who made them popular, offering a can-you-top-this tidbit.
"The Rover" is more pensive and hushed than most post-apocalyptic action pictures.
In contrast Douglas is more pensive in his approach, using penetrating, liquid lines, that is until he reaches for the stars.
Others, like "Full Circle," "Knife to the Heart," and "Beginning at the End," are more pensive tracing heartache through sleepy bass throbs and gorgeous explosions of emotion.
The overall tone, I wrote, would be more like a "pensive pageant" than a traditional narrative opera.
This was Ms. Worden's more familiar aspect: a pensive force of nature.
