He strokes underneath his chin in the pensive style, perhaps contemplating a neat slice across the throat.
Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio The jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel has spent most of his career perfecting an aerodynamic yet pensive style, stamped both by virtuosity and introspection.
Mr. Forstall, who trained as an actor at a young age, also shared with Mr. Jobs a commanding stage presence at events introducing Apple products, often delivering his speeches with a pensive style that echoed that of Mr. Jobs.
The show reached a peak of intensity on Tuesday during a bold pairing of the bossa nova classic "Desafinado," crooned by John Pizzarelli, joined to a Brazilian rendition of Billy Joel's "Summer, Highland Falls" reinvented by Ms. Molaskey as a pensive, Brazilian-style meditation.
Morgan chooses a discreetly quiet, understated and subtle style, pensive rather than passionate, shifting seamlessly among a varied cast of characters.
Woodberry's distinctive style is pensive and introverted he's a reflective filmmaker whose scenes of action are matched by extended scenes of inaction, in which his protagonists pass through the cityscape or sit or recline alone, collecting and measuring their circumstances, seeing their identities mirrored and distorted in the world around them.
Ms. ?ora's music was in a style called morna: slow, pensive ballads suffused with sodade, the Cape Verdean creole term for a nostalgic longing.
His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from "quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth".
Structured in nine movements, this 33-minute piece goes through a gamut of styles and unpredictable moods, from pensive to prankish to harrowing.
The best-known music from Cape Verde, the islands off Senegal, is a style called morna, the lilting and pensive songs carried worldwide by Cesaria Evora.
That's on Program A (one of three at the Joyce), which also includes a pensive pas de deux by William Forsythe, whose jagged, deconstructed style has had a clear influence on Rhoden.
