Sentence examples for by contemplation from inspiring English sources

It was concentrated, utterly absorbing music, vigorous and methodical like a workday, but one transfigured by contemplation.

Fana may be attained by constant meditation and by contemplation on the attributes of God, coupled with the denunciation of human attributes.

Insofar as Poole requires action from his students (followed, to be sure, by contemplation), it may be that he has left the realm appropriate to the academy and entered another realm that demands both more and less.

In "From Shakespeare to Pope," Gosse argued that the development of literature should be traced not only by "contemplation of the best" but also by studying the lesser writers who were part of "the spectacle of motion, of evolution".

Rocked by the loss of a close friend, depression and addiction, James Taylor shows how much courage it takes to ride out his bad days publicly in Fire and Rain, a reflection marked more by contemplation than recollection.

It is to Plato, more than to any other thinker, that we owe this notion of irreducible moral absolutes, and the sense of The Good – not as something we have invented but which we can perceive, by philosophy, by leading a good life, by contemplation.

Much of U2's songwriting and music is also motivated by contemplations of loss and anguish, coupled with hopefulness and resiliency, themes that are central to The Joshua Tree.

Then would dawn a new epoch, the third age, presided over by the Holy Spirit, guided by monks and fueled by their contemplation.

The original series is notably cerebral, defined less by James Bond-stuntssthans than by deep contemplation on the hero's part.

Envy, by contrast, is thought to be inherently bad — a "feeling of mortification and ill-will occasioned by the contemplation of superior advantages possessed by another," according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Referring to the criterion-related validity, outcome was significantly predicted by the contemplation, action, and maintenance subscales as well as by the committed action global score.