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".
I feel that the shortage of permanent, ubiquitous, full-on fretting reveals a dismal lack of contemplation in modern Britain.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
He takes as a given that the Modern has many functions other than esthetic contemplation.
On Wednesday, the Rev. Robert Robinson, the pastor, decided to keep the church open for worship all day for the nine days of a novena, a traditionally powerful prayer, starting an ebb and flow of grief and contemplation that continues in the modern, rectilinear sanctuary.
Whatever the pertinence of medieval philosophy to modern politics, Palestine is not exactly a place for contemplation, and so the scholar given to metaphysical reveries and cafe afternoons — how do you say luftmensch in Arabic?
It is the most beautiful work Susan Hiller has made and it should be in Tate Modern, where they show precious little of her art, as a contemplation piece - a pause in the milling progress of contemporary art.
Our subject is the modern female body, that perpetual subject -- and object -- of manipulation, contemplation, rank distaste, celebration and reinvention.
Although located in a bustling urban setting, the modern day Alamo seems a tranquil, restive place suited for relaxation or contemplation.
Marilyn Johnson, who wrote obituaries for many modern celebrities and who described obituary reading as an immensely pleasurable "act of contemplation," is not dead.
Harumi Terayama sits in contemplation as the Mary figure; Acacia Schachte arrives as a modern-dance Gabriel.
