He is also a father enmeshed in the earlier selves that delivered him to this present one: a pensive son of a depressed drunkard, a friend, a citizen, a subject of global modernity.
They are exceedingly patient with their younger brother, the pensive one who likes to wander the past, sometimes getting tangled up in it, too.
The little one of Sappho, pensive, clutching the rock above the sea before she jumps, is a gem.
A youthful Milton described that polarity perfectly in the call-and-response of "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," poems he wrote in 1631 or 1632 that pit the merry man against the pensive one.
Violence and bloodshed aside, there is something about the overarching theme of this video that leaves one in a pensive and agitated state asking, How did we get here?
R.E.M. also reclaimed more pensive ones like "Country Feedback" and "Find the River" and slowly gathering rockers from recent albums like "Walk Unafraid" and "She Just Wants to Be," which set loose Mr. Buck's psychedelic side.
Here is one that I starred a pensive discourse by protagonist Marion Stone on the common rituals of patients seeking succor at the missionary hospital of his youth: I'd learned many things about suffering … first that white was the uniform of suffering, and cotton its fabric.
Alphey is reserved, with a mop of brown hair and pensive eyes; one can practically see his brain in motion as he works out a scientific problem.
She came upon Gary seated by the window one day in a pensive mood and asked, "What are you thinking about, Gary boy?" And Gary boy answered: "Nussing".
"Riding to Vanity Fair" is one of the most pensive songs he has ever recorded: a wounded response to a rejected friendship, with strings tugging downward as an undertow.
