Sentence examples similar to pensive introduction from inspiring English sources

He seemed pensive.

These were performed during stretches of orchestral music: the ominous fate motif music of the introduction, and, more implausibly, the pensive entr'acte before Act III.

Instead of diving in with a sprightly, virtuosic statement, the violinist halts the jaunty orchestral introduction and abruptly shifts the mood with a lyrical, pensive aria that unfurls over the suddenly subdued orchestra.

Then Victoria turned pensive.

Dave looked pensive.

Bird looks more pensive.

Understandably, most were pensive.

Jonah seemed pensive, concerned.

Bechdel was pensive.

Pensive, sometimes melancholy, tentative.

They seemed pensive.