Sentence examples for contemplation show from inspiring English sources

But Aristotle's answers to the question "What is eudaimonia?" (namely, that which is "activity in accordance with virtue"; or that which is "contemplation") show that for him eudaimonia was not a state of mind consequent on or accompanying certain activities but is a name for these activities themselves.

Renewables decreases electricity prices, and even a moment of contemplation shows why.

A moment's contemplation shows us that it's on its way out, a creature of the moment.

It would be a sort of contemplation: which shows the incipient artist".

(A party air stirs along the Guggenheim's ramp, which is bare except for clusters of benches, as the contemplation-proof show frees viewers to enjoy one another).

Yet I've seen many a collier stand in his back garden looking down at a flower with that odd, remote sort of contemplation which shows a real awareness of the presence of beauty.

The incident looked uglier at full speed than on replays but Bjorn Kuipers, surrounded by nine furious Chelsea players and with Oscar prone, did not grant himself time for contemplation before showing the red card.

If the Mole's Town and Braavos sequences revealed some schematic contemplation on the show's fallout, this scene counts on our past familiarity with the backstory behind the followers of R'hllor (they're nigh-immortal witches) and Varys (he's a skeptic who only grudgingly believes in otherworldly things) for its drama.

There was a significant positive association between expressed interest and likelihood of joining the self-management programme and contemplation scores as shown in Table 3. High scorers on this sub-scale were more likely to state they were interested in the self-management programme and would join a class.

Elsewhere, the children simply lie back and gaze up at the sky, lost in vacant contemplation: an image that shows that, if Times and Winds is so eloquent about the mysteries of nature, the film covertly has just as much to say about the dreamy pleasures of cinema itself.

Our data shows that contemplation is a predictor of a positive therapeutic alliance in the course of inpatient treatment.