Sentence examples for contemplative period from inspiring English sources

This piano music illustrates a tranquil, contemplative period.

Then, after a contemplative period, he went on to perform a fresh piece of imposture.

It is a year when Ms. Hepburn's stage and screen successes are yesterday's news and she is considered box-office poison -- a contemplative period in which she reflects on her childhood in Hartford, her college years and her start in show business.

St. Teresa of Ávila (1515 1582) a Doctor of the Church, practiced contemplative prayer for periods of one hour at a time, twice a day.

In the paintings of that period, he brought a contemplative majesty to both outdoor and indoor life.

The research design was the BABA approach, comprising four phases: the first treatment period (B1) using the contemplative teaching method; the first baseline period (A1) using the lecturing method; the second treatment period (B2) using the contemplative teaching method; and the second baseline period (A2) using the lecturing method.

He was a deeply religious person who throughout that period lived in meditative seclusion, and historians disagree on whether he wanted the throne or whether he spurned it in favour of a contemplative life.

He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins.

If ordinary believers wanted to devote themselves fulltime to religion, they were supposed to withdraw into the contemplative life and commit themselves, for example, to seven-year periods of fasting and prayer.

They are "contemplatives in action," in the words of St. Ignatius, and have an especially lengthy period of study and spiritual preparation before taking vows, usually 10 years or more.

In Antiquity and the early modern period, there was a great debate over the relative virtues of what were called the "active" and the "contemplative" lives.