Sentence examples for mere contemplation of from inspiring English sources
The mere contemplation of the upcoming holidays — the travelling, the festivities — had exhausted us.
The mere contemplation of the upcoming holidays the travelling, the festivities had exhausted us.
Jennings writes that "the mere contemplation of an ideal polis . . . is a civic act".
The mere contemplation of the upcoming holidays — the travelling, the… I first saw the kettlebell at the gym.
The court recognized that the mere "contemplation" of certain action is not sufficient to require an impact statement.
As difficult as it is to define, the mere contemplation of a definition is an irresistible exercise that says a lot about who we aspire to become over the course of a lifetime and what we value as a society.
Dewey also criticizes Kant's reduction of attentive observation to mere contemplation and his reduction of the emotional element of the aesthetic to pleasure taken in contemplation.
But, in contrast to Plotinus, for Bergson, thinking is not mere contemplation; it is the entire or integral movement of memory between contemplation and action.
The role of art in sustaining us psychologically by providing a concretization of our most fundamental values is a frequent theme in Rand's fiction as well, especially The Fountainhead.[11] While art can be used to convey information or to advocate a position, such functions are secondary to its chief task: providing an object whose mere contemplation brings spiritual fulfillment.
Still, this series, like the many other ruminations on an eventful century spawned by its turning, may have a salutary effect for a classical music world long accustomed to a mere passive contemplation of "timeless" (though typically aged) masterpieces, encouraging listeners to examine and re-evaluate music as part of an often roiling time and context.
Leibniz's ethics no doubt has an intellectualist character, but mere passive contemplation of the rational order of the universe is not the ideal of moral goodness.
