"pensive air" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe someone's demeanor or expression, conveying a sense of deep thought and contemplation. Example: As she sat alone on the bench, her pensive air gave away her troubled thoughts.
Viewers may examine the specificity with which Lachaise modeled his subjects: the weathered visage of John Marin, the modernist painter; the meditative air and etched skin of Edward Nagle, Ms. Nagle's son by her first husband; the pensive look and slightly parted lips of Edward M. M. Warburg, a philanthropist who was one of Lachaise's patrons.
Much of it kicks and stamps along with a pensive, wrapped-up air that feels seasons away from the vain, flamboyant excesses of earlier Coen projects.
Gary Clark Jr. began his encore at the Apollo Theater on Thursday night in an air of pensive solitude, perched on a chair with a harmonica and his guitar.
As I watch him trawl through his records one Friday evening, an air of pensive intrigue clings to the pair of us.
There was a curious alchemy in the moment: a woman who a second ago had been briskly co-operative became, by some combination of fresh air and celluloid, an ethereal, haunted, infinitely pensive being.
Still, her portrayal of the Marschallin, the pensive Austrian aristocrat at the heart of "Der Rosenkavalier," had a valedictory air.
Although he has made albums since 1967, releasing his most recent studio effort in 2004, Mr. Martyn's "Solid Air," from 1973, was his indelible moment in British rock: meditative and earthy, pensive and luminous.
She delivered a pensive, understated "Lazy Afternoon" that displayed an impressive tonal control and the right air of dreamily sensuous hyper-awareness of nature in full bloom.
She led the way to a room dominated by several paintings of Marie-Thérèse, a curvy, blond woman, in varying states of repose with her chin in the air, burying her head in her arm to steal a nap, pensive in a fauteuil.
