All the evidence is that we find symmetry appealing and that particular kinds of structure are best placed to take strain; Browne would have been shocked witless by the 21st century, and yet there are things we have found that he would have contemplated with awe – the carbon allotropes known as buckyballs, for example, would have had him jumping up and down saying "See!
The most emotionally striking, and uncharacteristic, photographs of the President show him kissing his helpless father on the top of his head, pictures I may have contemplated with some premonition of the illness that would one day cross our cheerful family doorstep and prematurely ravage my own father.
Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation's largest law firms, with more than 1,700 lawyers, has contemplated a possible merger with Dewey, and has also looked to "cherry pick" certain groups of Dewey lawyers.
It also has contemplated some sort of tie-up with Yahoo, though on Wednesday, Mr. Armstrong tried to tamp down speculation about a future deal.
Beecher expressly denied that either of them could have contemplated sex with the other.
However, Margaret herself is shown to have contemplated infidelity with a man she met on holiday in the episode "Warm Champagne", eventually deciding against it.
I've already said that I don't seek pain, and I would not have contemplated going through with it unless I found the alternative unbearable.
In the long afternoon and night while the hunters were away, he had contemplated his encounter with the tiger in the smokehouse.
She was of the generation of Turks that had been brought up to despise the twin menaces of Kurdish nationalism and political Islam – the sort of person who until quite recently would not have contemplated talking congenially with a Kurdish nationalist linked to a terrorist organisation.
