He contemplates it silently.
"I don't make singularities," she says, as we contemplate a silently running video – one of the glamorous gallerists has put it on for us – in which no less than three curators can be seen worrying about how to hang From the Freud Museum.
Poor Melania gave a speech about protecting children from cyberbullying while the audience silently contemplated the fact that her husband recently retweeted a meme of him slamming Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball.
These, too, are silently contemplated by Chinese visitors, who are revisiting both the fifth century BC, when Confucius lived, and the 20th century, when Cultural Revolution activists toppled the tombs, smashed the statues and swept the altars of their ornaments and votive vessels.
The host referred to West's famous claim from 2005 that President George W Bush "doesn't care about black people", and asked the superstar: "What makes you think that Donald Trump does - or any people at all?" West silently contemplated the question for several seconds before Kimmel suggested taking a break.
"Art is about experience, and that experience will reveal itself only when the viewer silently contemplates the piece.
They got out of the truck and stared silently, contemplating a pothole about the size of a coffin -- the result of a construction job with poor repaving.
Longley, writing recently in the introduction to a selection of MacNeice's poems, recalled that as they "dawdled between the graves" all three then-unpublished poets were silently "contemplating an elegy".
But last night Channel 4 screened Complicit – a terrorism drama that moved with notable and deliberate slowness, employing long pauses between speeches and a lengthy final sequence that consisted of the central character silently contemplating what has happened.
But no actress could make the authors' other convention seem anything except awkward: on several occasions Bessie has premonitions of her death that interrupt her train of thought and prompt her to silently contemplate her demons while the audience waits, feeling Ms. Braden's pain if not Bessie's.
And they never stop looking and contemplating each other silently as Silvana sucks her dummy.
