Sentence examples for in a contemplation of 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".

In this novel, which is in part a beach-read thriller and in part a contemplation of questions about God and communication, Anna, a young mother fleeing her estranged, sociopathic husband, grapples with a disembodied voice that only she seems to hear.

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.

In addition, the line invited a contemplation of its abstract patterns; Novgorod painting began to emphasize the lyricism of these patterns rather than the immediate presence of the figures.

These moral rules "are primary principles, and are established in our minds simply by a contemplation of our moral nature and condition; or, what expresses the same thing, by intuition" (1846, 11).

It makes form out of particles and finds attitude in a remembered drunken remark as easily as in a long contemplation of experience — more easily, in fact.

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