Michaels contemplated thoughts of retirement and stated that he "had to find his smile again," which he had "lost" somewhere down the line.
MR. BOUCHER: The potential, pending, contemplated, thought-of, perhaps, maybe- might-have-done-something, could-have-done-this, could-have-done-that kind of things, I'm not going to get into what those might have been.
In addition to an increase in abstract thinking capacities, adolescents develop an introspective thinking style which allows them to contemplate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (Blakemore and Choudhury 2006; Kingery et al. 2006; Schrodt and Fitzgerald 1987).
In Russia, if you even contemplate negative thoughts of Putin, you'll get shot in the back at Red Square.
The very thought of young women dressed in black, armed with sharp knives entering the homes of total strangers in the middle of the night, is really so horrendous a thought that it's difficult to contemplate a thought like that.
To contemplate the thought processes of such individuals makes any decent person want to wash their hands until the slime of hypocritical hatred is swept away.
The subsequent attempt to build a European federation is mainly a product of that decision, not, as is too often claimed, the other way round.To these changes in the way the European countries look at each other must be added the change in the way ordinary people in all the better-off countries now contemplate the thought of war.
A child whose mother wishes he did not exist will not want to contemplate the thought, and will fail to develop empathy as a result.Travelling through the book, the reader is introduced to a range of character studies complemented by descriptions of real people, including Marilyn Monroe, whose early sorrows blighted the rest of her life.
