Sentence examples for mood of contemplation from inspiring English sources

The next night, we headed for the Almagro parador, a rebuilt convent, which manages to capture the mood of contemplation (each room has a marble font for holy water).

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).

Mr. Sachon's cello augmented a mood of entranced contemplation.

The Cloisters nearby inspired a mood of quiet contemplation in the mix of snow and sleet.

Then, sitting alone at the piano and accompanying herself in a flowing semiclassical style that allows her voice and instrument to breathe as one, she sustained a mood of deep contemplation, turning four of her finest originals — "My Father," "Secret Gardens," the recent "Wings of Angels" and "The Blizzard" — into a memory suite.

Made in Rome or India, the small, illumination-like ink drawings reflect the influence of Eastern art and thought and already evince a characteristic mood of self-contemplation, whether languorous or anxious.

In the following years other Belgian artists explored the richly desolate atmosphere of the city, and Fernand Khnopff, in particular, made a number of mesmerising paintings which combine photographic precision with a mood of lonely Symbolist contemplation.

Its act of contemplation makes what it contemplates— as though the very act of contemplation were automatically productive (III. 8. 4).

It is the classic gesture of contemplation, familiar to both General MacArthur and Jack Benny, and Clare manages to emanate both their moods at once — grave but also strangely comical.

The slightest hint of contemplation worried them.

It is the enemy of contemplation.