Neill is ruminative, easily fascinated, and quickly distracted.
Unlike those works, which are vigorous, satiric, sometimes raunchy, this volume is ruminative and minor-key.
His first leading role in a movie since 1995's "Funny Bones, Lewiss' performance is ruminative and interior, sincere and raw.
According to Davis, Wind wanted his articles to be ruminative, evocative and chewy.
Does a scene meant to be ruminative and mysterious actually sound inert and clunky?
It's easy for this elusive, 70-minute work to seem much longer, since none of the four movements are in any hurry to get anywhere, not the ruminative outer movements, certainly not the funereal Andante, not even the intriguingly subdued Scherzo.
Smaller movements are better than larger movements.
Everything is slow, ruminative.
When Ms. Quinn, on video, accompanied the live dancing of Ms. Fenley by reciting movement instructions — left, right, forward, back — as if they were a ruminative soliloquy, the combination was stronger, yet the text and choreography generally slipped past each other.
But there are no ruminative, poetical baseball pieces.
