"As with my past work I've placed some humorous elements in the design basically to say, 'don't stress, we are all only human.' I'd like contemplation from the viewer on which of these addictions they may have, which I hope will lead to understanding".
But, Dr. McQueen said, "if we could prime people" with approaches like contemplation, giving them the chance to slow down and think things through, they might be more willing to risk learning valuable information in a timely fashion.
Her typical morning is 'given over to, like, contemplation, thinking how to be a better person, getting on the phone and destroying someone's character, then crying for 10 minutes - better out than in - putting in my eye drops, going out to lunch with a girlfriend, coming back and flopping out on the sofa.
In the last sublime moments of the work, when the pianist does not play, Mr. Serkin sat upright, eyes closed, listening with Buddha-like contemplation.
The rest of the monologue follows the first nine years in the life of his daughter, named Ariel, and Samuel's Job-like contemplation of her affliction.
On this brisk late-summer morning, it seems I've entered the world of alt exercise, where the iron will of the endurance athlete merges with flights of Thoreau-like contemplation.
Since this part is the most god-like, contemplation is in some sense divine activity.
Gentle piano began — a sound like earnest contemplation, difficult thinking, patience — and Groban's voice, where Malloy's wonderfully nasally voice had once been, began to sing.
As always in Morris's films, the insistence on factuality is accompanied by a kind of rapt dreaminess, an almost Zen-like mood of contemplation, in which Rumsfeld's mind, in all its particularity, becomes just a single element in the eternal flux (here represented by shots of empty oceans).
In the context of El Museo, painting feels less like a vehicle for metaphysical contemplation than like a blank wall on which the smudgy diaristic drawings of Kenny Rivero might advantageously be arranged, or like a screen onto which the colonialist histories of Latin America referred to by other artists — Hector Arce-Espasas, Arce-Espasas, Ramón Miranda Beltrán and Christopher Riveraojected.
By contrast, Alexander suggests that one might lead — or at least strive for— a god-like life of pure contemplation.
