On a near-perfect day in Orlando, Fla., a few weeks ago, Tiger Woods leaned back in a chair and contemplated this question: How does a man with more money than he can spend, more power than anyone in his sport and more fame than he could ever imagine, keep his success from diminishing his desire?
VS Naipaul has described the religious impulse as the inability "to contemplate man as man", responsible to himself and uncosseted by a higher power.
The rest of you, say the play's title out loud while contemplating this scenario: a man in his mid-50s is mourning his wife's death.
"The movie wants us to forget the girls (although a fair number are shown in the buff) and contemplate the man behind the centerfolds as a heroic defender of freedom of the press and equal rights".
A mirthful, wicked little novel whose protagonist, a Southern woman of a certain age and of a mind mostly unreconstructed, contemplates the men in her mind's life, notably the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest.
I stared at the skin, and the lenticels gazed indifferently back at me, as I contemplated man's long and sometimes discordant relationship with this fruit.
Yukio Ueshima and Company contemplates a man's quest for his true self.
When they contemplate their man's high noon with Ms Winfrey, Team Armstrong must be wondering, How on earth can Lance recover?
He enjoyed some good fortune when Sir Bradley Wiggins and the defending champion Ryder Hesjedal bowed out after insipid performances, but it is hard to contemplate either man challenging Nibali in a way that would have made him lose his cool.
Still, Perkins's letter acknowledged that the state's laws governing runaway slaves "never contemplated" dealing with men like these.
