The marquees around Times Square had come to resemble the nearby windows of those big, candy-theme stores (devoted to the contemplation and purchase of M&Ms and Hershey's Kisses), promising familiar tastes, empty calories and a sugar rush delivered by reliable brand names.
Aristotle turns therefore, in X.7 8, to the two remaining alternatives politics and philosophy and presents a series of arguments to show that the philosophical life, a life devoted to theoria (contemplation, study), is best.
And the desserts offer less pleasure than a restaurant so apparently devoted to the serene contemplation of fellowship probably should.
And the ordinary hullabaloo of the packed dining room has given rise to a new adjoining room, the Monk's Cell, devoted to the quiet contemplation of myriad Belgian brews.
Because each convent of Poor Clares is largely autonomous, practices have varied greatly, but generally the Poor Clares are regarded as the most austere women's orders of the Roman Catholic church, being devoted to prayer, penance, contemplation, and manual work and usually adopting the strictest enclosure, severe fasts, and other austerities.
It functioned as a mosque, a place of quiet contemplation devoted to genital slang rendered in neon.
My hosts at the hotel, good Buddhists they, understand a Day of Atonement devoted to fasting, prayer and contemplation, and they provided me with a special room in which to pray.
11 p.m. 4. PORTER AND PUNK On a two-block stretch best known for thumping multistory clubs, the Cask Republic (179 Crown Street; 475-238-8335; thecaskrepublicomparablya comoreably more studious place devoted to the less-than-quiet contemplation of fine ales, lagers, stouts and porters — some 60 or so on draft alone, including rare and cask-conditioned beers.
The question of the possibility of a renewal of Hegelianism was at the heart of Ehrenberg's attempt, early in 1910, to collect some of the brightest young intellectuals, historians, and scholars of philosophy from southwest Germany together in Baden-Baden for a series of symposia devoted to making "contemporary culture into the object of historical contemplation".
Perfect happiness, he says, consists in contemplation; but he indicates that the life devoted to practical thought and ethical virtue is happy in a secondary way.
