Sentence examples for contemplative gaze from inspiring English sources

Initially Ms. King, like Alicia, seems difficult to read, with that quiet, contemplative gaze.

A moment -- of high artifice or raw candor, of posed elegance or composed chaos -- is captured and then, later, delivered to our contemplative gaze.

Yet we demand more from this 62-year-old actor, on whose rugged face a playful smirk and a contemplative gaze look equally at home, and he appears happy to give it to us in his life beyond the screen.

LeBaron Russell Briggs, who served as dean of Harvard College and president of Radcliffe, is eclipsed in the light of the window, while Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, is caught in a contemplative gaze at the night sky.

Two benchmark examples of classical music video, Henri-Georges Clouzot's film of Karajan leading the Verdi Requiem (1967, Deutsche Grammophon) and Bruno Monsaingeon's "Glenn Gould: The Alchemist" (1974, EMI), show how the camera can slow itself to a thoughtful, contemplative gaze that actually takes in what's happening.

Lacking the contemplative gaze, such leaders will remain mere functionaries and technicians, without any big picture to guide them for the long term.

Dubbed Pebble for its smooth, round shape, the gadget lends itself to impromptu games of catch and prompts contemplative gazing while nestled in the palm.

Above the coat rack hung a portrait of Taylor, painted by Wallace: she looked contemplative, her gaze serious.

For a more contemplative example, gaze at a sequence of regular polygons: a hexagon, an octagon, a decagon and so on.

Her new "$Shot," which explores the relationship between acquisitive and contemplative sexual gazes, may be the piece that does it.

In the image, released on the series' official Twitter account, Bonham Carter can be seen looking contemplative as she gazes at a lit cigarette.