Sentence examples for idle contemplation from inspiring English sources
Their idle contemplation quickly turned into a research project, and they quickly designed an experiment to measure what they called the Obama effect.
I explain that while the pointy end does offer expansive views to the pilots at work there, idle contemplation is a pleasure reserved for the fortunate travelers back in 5A or 24F.
Whatever his topic, the underlying message of a De Botton book is that the soul-awakening tingle of "idle" contemplation we once cherished as students and indulge in too little as working stiffs still carries a full charge of pleasure.
— Mike in Flushing Ayman al-Zawahiri writes: Raining down misery and destruction on the Great Satan leaves me little time for such idle contemplations.
I believe that a novelist should write for no more than four hours a day, after which returns truly diminish; this, of course, leaves many hours for idle play and contemplation.
On the other hand, the German sociologist Theodor W. Adorno famously believed that the subject was unavoidable, and that to write about anything else was to persist in the perpetuation of the kind of self-satisfied contemplation and idle chatter of a barbaric culture that produced the holocaust in the first place.
"We hypothesize that smartphone use filled student's idle time, and that before they had their smartphones, that idle time was used for contemplation, or reading or reviewing of notes," Kortum said in the email.
That idea needed some contemplation.
