Sentence examples for pensive of from inspiring English sources

Viewed from an upper gallery reserved for a small band of reporters invited to attend, the most pensive of them appeared to be Michael Heseltine, 80, a multimillionaire publisher and a leader of the 1990 rebels, who Mrs. Thatcher privately accused of an "unforgivable betrayal".

That's if intrigue can be pensive, of course.

She's almost apologetic when she makes her observations, blinking timidly, though she also does a lot of pensive narrowing of the eyes to let us know when a salient clue has just sailed past.

There the intrepid traveler may find the River of Lasciviousness, River of Pensive Musings, Plain of Susceptibility, Novel Reading, and Dandy's Rest.

The first, November 14 , 1966 produced a pair of sumptuously pensive renditions of Duke Ellington's "I Didn't Know About You" and a slightly sluggish version of a new composition, "Green Chimneys".

Both the big bangs and the more pensive moments of a Fourth of July weekend on the Port Madison reservation are the subjects of "Boomtown," which has its premiere Tuesday at 10 p.m. on PBS.

That was a bold thing to do, you think, as you focus in on the individual curls of hair framing the thin, pensive face of a girl who one day hopes to be like Naomi.

There is Vanessa Bell's mordant, brightly colored portrait of Lytton Strachey, and Grant's pensive view of the pregnant Bell.

They also liked things imbued with a kind of primitive animation, like the sweetly pensive head of a giraffe from a 19th-century American carousel.

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.

She took regular, pensive puffs of a vape pen the same shade of red as the table.