Sentence examples for contemplation made from inspiring English sources

More than half a millennium ago, a gaunt Russian monk named Savvatii stood on the shores of the White Sea, gazed toward the Arctic Circle, and, after deep contemplation, made the daring decision to head north.

"Disgruntled" offers Solomon's own version of the Key, a philosophical contemplation made tangible and compelling through narrative.

Its act of contemplation makes what it contemplates— as though the very act of contemplation were automatically productive (III. 8. 4).

So Spielberg just keeps going, never slowing down for personal identification or existential contemplation, making Tintin (voiced by Jaime Bell) less a character than a conduit for the boyish adventurer in us all.

So, while contemplation makes a point about research style and character, His's roles in championing wax and human embryology explain why he holds a rare model and the first known representation of an embryo in any portrait.

These stages include not thinking about change (pre-contemplation), considering change in the next six months (contemplation), making steps to prepare for change in the next month (preparation), making changes to behaviour (action) and maintaining behaviour change for six months or more (maintenance) [ 33].

Such contemplation is made possible by the divine grace of the universe-shaping deity which every writer of fictions becomes.

Socrates got close in a few dialogues, in the first Alcibiades or the Statesman: confronting young men who wanted to live the life of praxis, rather than contemplation, Socrates made them realize that they didn't really know much about justice or about governing, and that they needed first to gain knowledge.

He had left his players in silent contemplation before making his point.

(It has been suggested that a number of his American clients gobbled up his wares with such avidity because they could thus indulge in expensive contemplation without making the painful effort of reading).

Using Roger's innovation-decision model as a theoretical framework for an inductive qualitative analysis allowed us to disentangle what happens at each stage of the decision-making process (that is, knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation and contemplation), thereby making it possible to understand the process of e-health adoption in post-conflict settings.