Contact with Caravaggio saw him adopt the other man's greater naturalism, his pensive, almost melancholy characters and his method of close cropping to force the viewer into the picture.
In the past, only one Social Democrat, Willy Brandt, has held both jobs simultaneously (from 1969 to 1974) and he, a pensive and often depressive character, had little of Mr Schröder's famed ability to snuff out rivals.
He films briskly on location with a controlled yet breezy view of the neighborhood and a distracted, pensive view of his characters, as if looking around while musing on higher matters.
For the youngest, liveliest, most visible and certainly hippest member of a formerly insular Old World family, her pensive tone seemed out of character.
Mr. Gordon mostly stays out of the way of the text, a pensive speech by the frail character Harper, who fears open spaces.
At the wrong speed, romance or drama may come off well enough in pensive moments, but then a character, reaching a decision, will suddenly race down the stairs like an excited spaniel.
In Leon Major's appealing staging, a co-production of New York City Opera and Glimmerglass Opera, which returned to the New York State Theater on Wednesday, the bass-baritone Jan Opalach conveyed both the buffoonish and fleetingly pensive aspects of the title character in a performance notable for its comic flair.
Your character (usually a pensive, stressed-out dude) has some role of importance in whatever high school/hospital/castle he belongs to, and the story sends him out to interact with a cavalcade of vibrant weirdos, many of whom are vaguely sexy anime girls he/you will have the opportunity to fall in love with, and see naked, at least once each during the novel's 50,000 lines of dialogue.
Nativity scenes, camels, Martins' trademark owls, mermaids, pensive farmers and countless other characters silently greet visitors.
The mood is more pensive than prurient, with Ms. Neuwirth's character presented as a soft, battered, sentimental creature, like a ragdoll that has been played with too hard.
