When you hear about real-life wonders of science fiction — self-driving cars, Amazon drone delivery, the M.I.T. cheetah robot, a concert featuring a hologram of Freddie Mercury — you contemplate it with a mixture of wonder, anxiety, and fatigue.
Ripley collected a new subspecies of babbler on this jaunt, named it Actinodura egertoni lewisi, or Lewis's bar-winged babbler, and presented a stuffed specimen of it to Lewis, who gave it a place on the mantelpiece in his Walpole library at Farmington, Connecticut, where he occasionally contemplates it with mixed feelings.
C. D. Broad, for instance, analyses good as meaning "there is one and only one characteristic or set of characteristics whose presence in any object that I contemplate is necessary to make me contemplate it with approval" (1985, 283).
47. "A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind".- Antoine SAntoineupery.
Others had contemplated it but then went ahead with their pregnancy.
Mr. Wiseman contemplates it all with curiosity and tact.
Long before he flirted with death, Pierce was contemplating it, or at least had an extreme need for support.
"Today Is Your Day" inspirited her; consequently, she contemplated sharing it with the series.
And in his new book, "Once Upon a Car," Bill Vlasic says G.M.'s plight in 2008 was so serious that it contemplated a merger with its cross-town rival, Ford.
He had been so furious at having his car repeatedly broken into that he contemplated sleeping in it with a weapon so he could catch the next crook in the act and attack him.
