Sentence examples for pensive state from inspiring English sources

A bad game would just really put me in that pensive state.

After this Mr. Serkin took the audience back into a pensive state with Brahms's Theme and Variations in D minor, his transcription of the slow movement from his early Sextet for Strings in B flat.

"On the other hand, why not put people in a more pensive or reflective state?

The resulting weight of subconscious melancholy truly left me in a pensive, dreamlike state.

Folky settings were just one framework for his chosen aesthetic: music that circles through pensive, steady-state meditations.

Violence and bloodshed aside, there is something about the overarching theme of this video that leaves one in a pensive and agitated state asking, How did we get here?

Another poster features a pensive toddler and states: "Honestly Mom … chances are he won't stay with you".

The 16 short songs of this 30-minute cycle, Schumann's settings of poems by Heinrich Heine, tell of a young man in love who meets rejection and sinks into alternate states of pensive heartache and bleak bitterness.

On her current album, "Impossible Dream" (ATO), Ms. Griffin grows more pensive than ever: mourning the state of the world, haunted by mortality, longing for love and refusing to lose hope.

The conservatives are also in a pensive mood ahead of the three important state elections on March 16 — in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt — where the flood of refugees is the No. 1 issue.

Dominic Cavendish wrote in The Telegraph of London, "The journey Postlethwaite takes is beautifully shaded, by turns semi-serious, pensive and pained before arriving, touchingly, at some dazed, carefree state where madness has become his sole means of self-preservation".