Sentence examples similar to fostered contemplation from inspiring English sources
Anselm's inquiry into the existence and nature of God, as also his discussion of truth, love, and human liberty, aimed at fostering monastic contemplation.
The monks of the Parisian abbey of Saint-Victor were no less intent on fostering mystical contemplation, but they cultivated the liberal arts and philosophy as an aid to it.
Despite Jefferson's revision of Locke, property (which chiefly meant land) remained the precondition for happiness: it protected against the temptations of corruption, freed the self for inquiry and contemplation and, through the mechanisms of inheritance, fostered a sense of connection to the past and to posterity.
The creators' anarchist plea for radical change was ambivalently met with appreciation of an urban art space for serious contemplation as well as a perceived lack of local community investment – the latter rendering Dismaland an urban 'art colony' that fostered an elitist global art market rather than urban-citizen-led participation.
Oil fostered industrialism.
The multiple distractions of our overstimulated society foster a populace no more inclined to contemplation or serious thought than first graders at a birthday party.
My dream is to create spaces which foster calm and contemplation, to transform hard-edged cities with billowing softness.
It fosters a vague feeling of dissatisfaction.Even the basic act of contemplation may suffer if idleness when waiting for a bus, for example—is replaced with the easy entertainment offered by mobile phones.
We're fostering entrepreneurship".
It fosters political overspending.
