These ideas illuminate the drama not as if from afar but from within; they aren't imposed on the drama but arise spontaneously from Eastwood's contemplation of people and events — and they find echoes throughout his career.
Now, after a decade of writer's block, he spends all of his time not writing in the gatehouse, frozen in contemplation of the many outrageous events in his life, which include a short imprisonment after threatening his first wife with a cake knife and assaulting a neighbour who tried to intervene.
"I don't think the memorandum of understanding is one that could not be changed because of events not within the contemplation of the parties," Mr. Paterson said.
Such contemplation of memory - of a person, place or event – can bring about the clouds, as the Queen of the Slide Guitar Bonnie Raitt details in I Gave My Love a Candle.
A negative RDT result should trigger contemplation of an alternative diagnosis.
But tonight at 10 on its regular series "The System," Court TV plugs into larger events with "Osama bin Laden on Trial," a contemplation of how "the world's most wanted" might be prosecuted and defended in an American courtroom.
His last book was "Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love and Compost" (Little, Brown; 2002), a contemplation of his life, theology and philosophy, mixed with thoughts about current events, God, sex and gardening.
Trying to remember the events of the day before falling asleep, Brik engages in a ritual he calls his "nightly prayer, a contemplation of my presence in the world".
It's just a contemplation of mortality.
Contemplation of the fire filled us.
