Sentence examples for contemplation in which from inspiring English sources

That was when he went to bed after a day's excited contemplation in which he discovered the "foundations of a marvellous science," and had a series of vivid dreams that changed his life.

As always in Morris's films, the insistence on factuality is accompanied by a kind of rapt dreaminess, an almost Zen-like mood of contemplation, in which Rumsfeld's mind, in all its particularity, becomes just a single element in the eternal flux (here represented by shots of empty oceans).

He went from analysis of the Trinitarian structure of the simple act of cognition to ascertainment of the Trinitarian structure both of human self-consciousness and of the act of religious contemplation in which people recognize themselves as the image of God.

And a few hours of contemplation in which you wonder how exactly a human slinky can exist.

Further, many adopted older views rooted in the Contemplation Sutra, in which nembutsu recitation was seen pragmatically, as a means of cancelling the karmic effects of one's past evil.

Even if prosecutors offer what is known as an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal – in which the charges are eventually dismissed if the person goes a certain length of time without being rearrested – Mr. Stolar said that "a substantial number of people" would decline it and "insist on going to trial and establishing their innocence".

The second stage contemplation is one in which there is an intention to change and the third and fourth stages (action and maintenance) are involved with achieving and maintaining change.

Describing his state in Act IV, Scene 1, he says, "it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness".

He sees an enormous gap between the viewing of disturbing images and contemplation of the ways in which we are implicated in the acts they portray.

Abe Lucas's experience is fraught with unintended consequences and with the agonizingly entropic mysteries of chance, and Allen, seeing monstrosities occur, offers a serene contemplation of the world in which they happen and offers no way out — almost.

Abe Lucas's experience is fraught with unintended consequences and with the agonizingly entropic mysteries of chance, and Allen, seeing monstrosities occur, offers a serene contemplation of the world in which they happen and offers no way out almost.