Throughout, the Australian is a calming presence, contemplating love while staring at the stars, his voice evoking Sufjan Stevens circa Seven Swans.
Down a crackling phone line, from his home in Austin, Texas, Richard Linklater – cult slacker icon, unerring romantic and one of Hollywood's earliest successful independent film-makers – is contemplating love.
Country rock's Ms. Harris continues to contemplate love and loss with trademark ghostly tenderness, 6 p.m., Central Park Summerstage, Rumsey Field, 72nd Street at Fifth Avenue, (212 360-2777, $57.50, $60 at the door.
Kate McGarrigle's 1990 song "I Eat Dinner" contemplates love lost among the leftovers, and both sisters' "Matapedia," from 1996, is based on a real event in Kate's life, when an old flame saw her 17-year-old daughter, Martha, and mistook her for her mother.
In my book God vs. Gay?, I spend a long, long time parsing them out and show that they are obscure and ambiguous, and that they certainly do not contemplate loving, committed relationships.
To cope with his most harrowing ordeals, he lapses into half-mad spells, reciting the names of his beloved botany texts ("Flora Sylvatica, Flora Indica") and contemplating his love for Devi: "Close they had been, ever since he could remember, like two eggs in a nest".
Foley then composes a letter to his wife and, in contemplating his love for her, begins to tell the story of his life and that of his parents.
We have entered the consciousness of the troubadour Jaufré Rudel, who, in the first scene, is seen composing a chanson and contemplating unachievable love.
As she's undertaking one great adventure — her first live tour — singer Boyle is contemplating another: love.
One might as well be in Forest Lawn, contemplating a loved one - which, in effect, Hirst's embalmed dumb friends are, bisected though they may be.
No matter what phase of life you are in, offer yourself the self-loving gift of banishing these worry-infested thoughts about that which we contemplate most: love, money, happiness, worthiness.
