Sentence examples for contemplative study from inspiring English sources

His novel, published by Alfred A. Knopf, is a serious, contemplative study of those personally affected by the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath.

Mr. Chabrol's talky, contemplative study of two women, strangers whose lives become unexpectedly intertwined, is finally incomplete and not entirely satisfying.

But a work such as the 1970 Still Life with Orange Note, in which his favourite thin-handled black circle appears yet again, draws you into its big spaces, and becomes another, more contemplative study in colour and simple forms.

Jansons has an unshakeable commitment to close, contemplative study of every nuance, every line of a piece of music, of knowing everything possible about the composer's frame of mind, of ruminating over phrases, passages, with an almost meditative intensity.

This dissonance between sight and sound is only one of the many contrasts that define this contemplative study of a young priest whose repressed desires threaten to derail his chosen vocation.

Critic's Choice Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener ponder Beethoven and mortality in the mature, contemplative study A Late Quartet … while Harmony Korine studies a less mature, decidedly uncontemplative quartet in sex-guns-and-Skrillex meta-exploiter Spring Breakers.

Working hand-in-hand, cognitive science and mindfulness form the backbone of a comprehensive contemplative studies program.

Through a contemplative studies semester school, I hope to create a place that will empower many more students to experience what these two already have, and then some.

Catherine Kerr, lead author of the new study and director of translational neuroscience for the contemplative studies initiative at Brown University in Providence, in the US, says that when we are depressed, attention is "consumed by negative preoccupations, thoughts and worries".

Boulder is home to Naropa University (1974), a unique school that combines contemplative studies with traditional Western areas of scholarship, and also has a branch of Front Range Community College (founded in 1968 as Community College of Denver).

The Mind & Life Institute's International Symposium seeks to encourage and help shape a cohesive interdisciplinary field of contemplative studies in which basic and applied science, scholarship, education, the arts, and contemplative traditions collaboratively develop an integrated way of knowing.