The film, directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen, is less an investigation of guilt for war crimes than a contemplation of the viability of international courts.
But perhaps the time is coming for thinkers to be braver, to push for a truer contemplation of nature, one that knows its aliveness, its spirit.
The hardest poem for me in "Congregation" is a contemplation of the meanings of words.
But I'll throw, after a pause for contemplation, a brava for the lively appearance of soprano Danielle Marcelle Bond in the multiple character parts of a Swiss Grandmother, Austrian Woman more concerned with her chocolates than the fate of the Jews on board, and the silly British Dancing Girl.
In his stories he viewed Hasidic material obliquely from the standpoint of a secular literary intellect, and with this unique perspective the stories became the vehicle for an elegiac contemplation of traditional Jewish values.
When finished, the project will take up 75,000 square feet and will include a Jewish-themed library rising three stories within the vast space, as well as an auditorium, a room for silent contemplation and a cluster of open-sided cubes for showing video testimonials by European Holocaust survivors.
If you're not going to read, a plane trip might provide a nice respite for contemplation, a fine alternative to watching "The Haunted Mansion" with Chinese subtitles.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year for Jews, a time for contemplation, reflection on the year past, and of atonement to God for vows not kept.
A suspiciously level moss-encrusted boulder turned out to be the ruins of a sawmill dam -- a reminder that the iconic American trout pool, "a place for solitary contemplation... for a sense of reconnection with lost wilderness," was the starting point of "the most noisome and alienating developments of the American industrial revolution -- factory towns, foundries, mass production".
