But can we also expand this contemplation beyond the scope of race to acknowledge that this is also about power, and that there are those in this world in certain positions, whether it be a police officer, mayor or executive, who require, first and foremost, deference, and who will abuse that power if the expected deference has not been received?
That Ise Jingu, actually a collection of 125 shrines dating back 2000 years, is a place of beauty and contemplation is beyond dispute.
Aristotle had similarly argued that a life of pure contemplation is beyond our strictly human capacity; we can live in this way only to the extent that we have in us "something divine" [NE 10.7, 1177b].
The idea of the Emperor's death was not beyond contemplation, but so far the queens were not contemplating it.
Is this beyond contemplation?
For most cutters, a 100-carat stone is beyond contemplation.
To do so to the kind of rapturous reviews Mr. Taddei received is almost beyond contemplation.
For Abyan, finding a new home again in a decade, after nearly a decade of displacement already, is beyond contemplation.
As a result, the idea of testing a polio vaccine — much less a live one — on humans was almost beyond contemplation by midcentury.
Though images like Ms. Turbeville's — which might include pale, haunted-eyed models in derelict buildings — are practically de rigueur in fashion photography today, they were almost beyond contemplation when she began her work in the early 1970s.
"That conduct was beyond contemplation in the Senate I joined 30 years ago," Mr. Specter, a onetime prosecutor, said in a speech that he billed not as a farewell but as a closing argument.
