Sentence examples for contemplation far from inspiring English sources
For some, inhabiting a sanctuary of contemplation far from modernity's noise is a spiritual experience.
In his Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711) Shaftesbury already stated that the response solicited by beauty is one of rational and refined contemplation, far removed from the crude pleasures that we receive through our senses.
The idea of the Emperor's death was not beyond contemplation, but so far the queens were not contemplating it.
In this perspective, contemplation is very far from being just one kind of thing that Christians do: it is the key to prayer, liturgy, art and ethics, the key to the essence of a renewed humanity that is capable of seeing the world and other subjects in the world with freedom – freedom from self-oriented, acquisitive habits and the distorted understanding that comes from them.
In the media, there were many testimonials and refutations given by journalists for the first part of Carr's argument regarding the capacity for concentration; treatments of the second part of Carr's argument regarding the capacity for contemplation, were, however, far rarer.
But imaginative contemplation reaches at least as far back as St. Ignatius Loyola, who popularized the practice in his classic 16th-century text, "The Spiritual Exercises".
These sections on Tommy -- the one thing I did that was good and didn't fail" -- yield to far more bitter contemplations on writing and race.
It's a far cry from the contemplation envisaged by Cadiz, and although the ensemble's intentions were noble, the result was confusing.
So far, though, the Republican contemplation of Trump looks more like a display of the sort of bad faith that led voters to a place of anger and discontent.
The beginning of a new decade in our lives is often accompanied with contemplation -- an evaluation of how far you've come and where you are going, where you've succeeded and where you've failed.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
