Sentence examples for pensive title from inspiring English sources

Take, for example, the pensive title track, a waltz-time dirge in which DeCicca mourns the seemingly indiscriminate ravages of disease and natural disasters.

Why the pensive title too, figured starkly and simply with the artwork?

In Leon Major's appealing staging, a co-production of New York City Opera and Glimmerglass Opera, which returned to the New York State Theater on Wednesday, the bass-baritone Jan Opalach conveyed both the buffoonish and fleetingly pensive aspects of the title character in a performance notable for its comic flair.

Actually, Ellis Marsalis has been heard on records before (including an album with his sons), but this set of nine pieces, six of which he composed, offers the most convincing evidence to date of his facility for creating a pensive, impressionistic mood (the title cut), an easy-stepping four-beat ("The Garden") or a carefully worked-out unaccompanied solo ("The Fourth Autumn").

He wrote a handful of the songs, including "Every Ocean, Every Star," a pragmatic meditation, and the title track, a pensive reverie partly credited to Erik Privert.

It came to Glasslands Gallery on Monday night with songs from its new album, also called "Zammuto" (Temporary Residence), that merge the nimble, the knotty, the philosophical and the pensive, living up to song titles like "Too Late to Topologize" and "Idiom Wind".

Petr (Pavel Liska), the title character of "The Country Teacher," is a pensive, bespectacled Czech in his 30s who impulsively leaves Prague to take a job teaching natural science in a rural village.

Steinbrenner was pensive as he waited for the game that would determine whether his $180 million Yankees would play for a title tonight.

Then Victoria turned pensive.

Dave looked pensive.

Bird looks more pensive.