Sentence examples for pensive conclusion from inspiring English sources

Early in the 15-minute work repeated E flats evoke funereal drum taps; tension mounts to an anguished outburst, followed by a pensive conclusion.

Melding the sinewy stoicism of folk tradition with Mr. Rouse's structural tweaks, they pondered disappointments and diminishing expectations, personal and political, reaching pensive conclusions in succinct choruses: "The world got away with me," concluded the last tune.

The clarinetist Todd Palmer was penetrating in the work's pensive introduction and conclusion.

The late arrivals were pensive at the evening's end.

As an encore he played a short piece by the Hungarian master Gyorgy Kurtag called "Faith," in which a somberly pensive thematic line goes through passing fits on its way to a resigned conclusion.

That two intelligent commentators should reach such radically disparate conclusions points to an abiding problem at the heart of "Klinghoffer": its pensive, ambivalent attitude toward present-day issues about which a great many people feel no ambivalence whatsoever.

Then Victoria turned pensive.

Dave looked pensive.

Jonah seemed pensive, concerned.

Bechdel was pensive.

"Someone looks pensive," she said.