Sentence examples for contemplative spirit from inspiring English sources

His milieu also aroused in him an interest in Islamic Sufi mysticism and the Eastern contemplative spirit.

"Inside of Moran is a medieval, contemplative spirit, and that's where he draws his strength from," Mr. Brown said.

Her blending of soft colors, reminiscent of pastel drawings, lends a contemplative spirit to her grassy fields.

Even with its deliberate, contemplative spirit the movie struck a chord when it opened in France last year, selling more than three million tickets.

He meant that it needed to combine the more rational, juridical, organisation-minded "Latin" temperament with the intuitive, mystical and contemplative spirit found in the east.

If in that contemplative moment he was touched by the enduring presence and harmony of Spirit, that's good to know.

Develop a deep and contemplative, prayer life.

A brief coda, set decades later, is contemplative, even melancholic in spirit.

The pianist Elizabeth Parisot, Mr. Parisot's wife, was the soloist in "Requiem," an 1892 work by the Prague-born composer David Popper, contemplative music in the spirit of Dvorak, here arranged intriguingly for cellos and piano.

Alum Julie Moir Messervy, MAR '78, MCP '78, designs contemplative gardens that feed the spirit.

But it is hard to see how this movie, with its contemplative mood and genial, curious spirit, could make anybody angry.