Sentence examples for in a contemplation from inspiring English sources

But I think I've never seen an excellent painting that is so masochistically cheerless, to the point of revelling in a contemplation of impotence.

Howard Jacobson tackles the first thirty-one verses of Genesis (pre-Fall, if you're wondering) in a contemplation of God-the-Artist and what it means to have created "good because it reveals an idea".

[ image: /photos/590953c5019dfc3494e9e506]Howard Jacobson tackles the first thirty-one verses of Genesis (pre-Fall, if you're wondering) in a contemplation of God-the-Artist and what it means to have created "good because it reveals an idea".

Last Cab to Darwin is for Michael Caton what About Schmidt was to Jack Nicholson: an on-the-road exhibition of age and weariness feeling, in part, a contemplation of the actor's own grasp of mortality.

There were other standout performances by the quicksilver Nick Kepley in "Lost in the Modern," a contemplation of modern life and art from 1998, and by Trey Gillen in the new "I Am Fully Qualified and Optimistic".

The hardest poem for me in "Congregation" is a contemplation of the meanings of words.

The question ushered in a striking moment — a lengthy contemplation rare in a political setting.

Then came Eliot's cats, one of them "engaged in a rapt contemplation / Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name".

The spoken words — Bible texts and the writings of St. Ignatius, read in Italian — are intended to help the visitor "engage in a deeper contemplation," Father Libanori said, in line with the mission of the Jesuits.

These are but a few red flags to watch for, situations in which one is either thinking of offending, will offend in the future, or in a possible contemplation of what will excite him/her next.

"In any contemplation of a sale or closing it down, what management and the board look at all the time is what is the cash cost of getting it to break-even versus the alternatives," O'Reilly added.