Sentence examples for contemplation of something from inspiring English sources
I can't remember them now, the woman says, and again she seems to lose herself in the contemplation of something visible only to her.
You may feel outraged at being expected to spend a decent length of time in contemplation of something that can be taken in, with all its defects, at a glance.
I've also been turning to André Aciman's "Enigma Variations," because part of art's purpose is to provide the solace of beauty, and the contemplation of something so gorgeously wrought is its own kind of resistance.
The older wines call for a little more contemplation, the accompaniment of something on the order of a fine cigar in front of a roaring fire.
Of course Russell does not attempt to derive an Is (such as the claim that idealism or pragmatism is false) from an Ought (such as the claim that we ought to enlarge the Self through contemplation of the Other, something that would be difficult if either of these philosophies were correct).
Getting it all in writing, messages to the future delivered with the advantages of contemplation, is something else again.
Brands are already using images that represent contemplation or introspection, this idea of something bigger than 'us.' This is also apparent through the increasing use of 'god's eye view' -striking aerials that show wonder and epic scale.
… We must regard the mental picture within us as both an object of contemplation in itself and as a mental picture of something else.
La Belle Ferronière seems almost angrily deep in contemplation, watching something behind you, out of your sight.
An illusion, of course, like that of infinite depth produced by facing mirrors, but there is still something vertiginous in the contemplation of these works' self-sustaining intelligence.
(All of which makes the leather-clad Mapplethorpe feel subversively camp: there is something Wildean in his studied contemplation of erections and orifices, the recourse to Vitruvius and Schiller in the darkroom).
