Sentence examples for pensive as from inspiring English sources

Today, though, he looks watchful and pensive, as well he might.

But on the touchline, Roy Hodgson looks pensive, as well he might.

They're about life as an inveterate misfit and outsider, sometimes wry, as in "Turquoise House," but more often pensive, as in "Jailbird".

This was Brand in pensive as well as playful mode, fully aware of the contradiction of describing his life as a 'carnival of narcissism' while chatting about the all-pervasive culture of celebrity".

Cruz seems briefly pensive as he charts the arduous journey he has taken to reach this point of release.

Both Eriksson and Ancelotti appeared somewhat pensive, as if the realisation of the match's importance had suddenly dawned on them.

Richter's slickly executed photorealist landscapes and pensive portraits, as well as his more painterly abstractions, reproduce beautifully on the page.

But I don't see the pensive looks as much.

But, as his wife speaks, Nixon turns somber and pensive -- as if the sight of the woman whom he has most injured by his public misconduct makes him realize that he can't go on without admitting some kind of guilt.

Monica Salmaso's "Trampolim" (Blue Jackel) is pensive pop as only Brazilians can make it.

It begins with the solo cello in a pensive mode, as if posing imponderable questions to the confounded orchestra.