Sentence examples for engaged in contemplation from inspiring English sources

We see visitors strolling past, engaged in contemplation or struck with amazement.

More than once, I have seen him stop in front of a slide with a graph on it, and become so engaged in contemplation of a particular data point that he grew oblivious of the audience.

One definition of meditation is to engage in contemplation or reflection.

This freedom, however, is enjoyed only by 'the divine and supernal substances' and by human beings engaged in the contemplation of God.

Then came Eliot's cats, one of them "engaged in a rapt contemplation / Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name".

The word "shrine" normally has a peaceful, healing sound to it, conjuring images of worshippers engaged in a little quiet contemplation before candle-lit statues in Compostela or Assisi.

It is comforting to have a little guidance when engaged in this type of wistful contemplation.

But in Ibn Tibbon's opinion, although this state is worthy of praise, they could have reached a higher state still: they could have been completely awake, engaged in a life of pure contemplation, free from the hindrances of the physical and political world.

Results showed that body dissatisfaction scores were lower for women who engaged in a brief period of grateful contemplation before viewing photographs of thin models than for women who reflected upon life hassles before viewing the same photographs.

Benedictines, in addition to their monastic life of contemplation and celebration of the liturgy, are engaged in various activities, including education, scholarship, and parochial and missionary work.

The results have been the subject of conceptual reviews and meta-analyses which demonstrate that a core set of regions – cortical midline structures (CMS) - are consistently engaged in tasks in which the self is the object of contemplation [ 28- 31]; and this applies to mental states as well as personality characteristics [ 32].