Sentence examples for capable of contemplating from inspiring English sources

"He incidentally did a little to help the enemy, but I don't think he was in a state of mind to be capable of contemplating the consequences of his actions in doing that intentionally".

Man is now capable of contemplating separated beings as such and can live his life in almost stoical detachment from the concerns of sublunar existence.

Being so diverse, they form interesting new bodies, such as comets, asteroids, rocky planets with oceans, and on at least one, living bodies with brains capable of contemplating and investigating the universe.

If the Creator wanted to bring about a result like us -- life, that is, capable of contemplating, appreciating, and sustaining life -- he, she, or they surely might have done worse than to create a Universe with just enough scope and variation to let evolution do all the labor of design.

Our minds are capable of contemplating the abstract, i.e. the non-material (there are no "square roots" to be found out in the material world), while our bodies are as immersed in the material world of pleasure and pain as they can be.

To reflect on the marvels of engineering of which man is capable, she might contemplate the bridge that tied the suburb to the city in the wake of the Civil War.

Bob Quick, a former head of counterterrorism at Scotland Yard, said in a BBC radio interview that the plot "serves to remind us that there are still people out in the country contemplating and capable of carrying out terrorist attacks on innocent people".

And as the book raises the question of whether Laura, well aware of Tom's ambivalence, will be capable of "mansion-wrecking," it also contemplates these friends' dashed romantic ambitions.

Even after the many books dealing with the Cambridge Five Burgess, Maclean, Blunt, Cairncross, and Philby it is still chilling to read of Guy Burgess's apparent offer to murder a Welsh academic who was capable of exposing him, or to contemplate the volume of secret material turned over to the Soviets.

From the perspective of history, it's worth contemplating the rather astonishing fact that we're capable of consuming 7 billion barrels of oil in a year.

Obama may pause to contemplate the unforgiving force of a weapon capable of generating enough light and heat to leave the "shadow" of an unidentified victim etched into the stone steps of a bank.