Sentence examples for contemplative stance from inspiring English sources

Disinterestedness has a long history; it characterizes the popular aesthetic attitude theories of the twentieth century, which argued that a prerequisite for any kind of full appreciation of art is a distanced, relatively contemplative stance towards a work of art.

I've never met Maxwell, but reading this book I suspect he could be what Thomas Merton called a "masked contemplative," which is to say someone who embraces a contemplative stance even if he or she never formally engages in meditative or contemplative prayer.

In the 'talking' and 'doing' of synthetic biology, one can discern a contemplative, interventionist, constructionist, and creationist stance.

With increasing awareness about how such biases of the observing mind affect the collection of data, as well as the realisation – in fields such as quantum physics and consciousness studies – that the subjective stance of the experimenter cannot and perhaps should not be isolated from their experiments, the contemplative approach comes to seem ever more a useful complement to scientific method.

Contemplative silence.

Contemplative reflection?

Feeling contemplative?

That contemplative, commanding frown.

Contemplative orders have declined.

The sidestroke was contemplative.

It is quiet, contemplative.