In many ways, there's nothing celebratory about Infinity Plaza, as the work creates a pensive landscape that can feel forbidden and even inappropriate like skating on a war memorial.
But on Things Our Bodies Used to Have, these elements feel more like volatile reagents than a soup of pensive noises.
On the whole, they feel warmly disposed toward her, and all of them are pensive and polite, but none can quite believe that art, of a serious nature, was going on under their noses, and that the hired help, of all people, was responsible.
That two intelligent commentators should reach such radically disparate conclusions points to an abiding problem at the heart of "Klinghoffer": its pensive, ambivalent attitude toward present-day issues about which a great many people feel no ambivalence whatsoever.
Surrounded by fellow pensive-looking travelers I know are dealing with their own life challenges, I feel less lonely than I did on my soggy walk home last weekend.
LAPOWINSA: (pensive) You know, it amazing how warrior can live among so many kinsmen and yet feel so alone.
Rather, I now feel more empathy and connection to the strangers I see rushing to board a plane or sitting in the terminal, pensive.
It's impossible not to feel it, as you start to rise through the scene of snow-laden woods straight out of Narnia and fall into a kind of pensive hibernation and meditation on the mile-long ride.
But that does not mean we should avert our concern, even if we feel impelled to avert our eyes, and this year provided fresh instances of filmmakers who felt the need — which they would stoutly and rightly defend — to haul their patient, pensive films to the brink of nastiness and beyond.
(They were expecting something closer to " 'Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' ") Luhrmann had put Nick Carraway in a sanitarium, as a framing device; as Nick told his doctor about West Egg, a pensive figure was illuminated in a high tower.
