Sentence examples for pensive force from inspiring English sources

This was Ms. Worden's more familiar aspect: a pensive force of nature.

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.

An extraordinary photo, taken by the AFP's Joseph Eid in the battle-ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo, has forced us to rethink the cultural cliché of the pensive pipe as mere metaphor.

Adding to the pensive atmosphere was the second anniversary of the terror attacks on New York and Washington, which forced the Solheim Cup to be canceled in 2001.

Then Victoria turned pensive.

Bird looks more pensive.

Understandably, most were pensive.

Dave looked pensive.

Pensive, sometimes melancholy, tentative.

He seemed pensive.

They seemed pensive.