There is Vanessa Bell's mordant, brightly colored portrait of Lytton Strachey, and Grant's pensive view of the pregnant Bell.
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.
Likewise, though his pacing of the action sequences — in particular, the bid to spirit Vogel out of his clinic and onto a train to the West — is done with clarity and care, the pained and pensive intervals make dreary viewing.
By Theodore Roethke The New Yorker, January 7 , 1939P. 29 The pensive gnu, the staid aardvark View Article By Anthony Lane By Jia Tolentino By Andy Borowitz By Rebecca Mead.
The cover photo portrait shows a pensive president in a sidelong view, the shot taken so close that every hard-earned crease in his face is clear and the gray hairs accentuated after four eventful, often stressful years in what has been called the hardest job on the planet.
"I would hope so – and I would expect a similar level of honest, open, pensive and very, very charitable exchange of views in order to discern a way forward," Nichols said.
I preferred to view the resting beasts as pensive, thoughtful.
In the third section — "The Part About Fate" — this real-world material comes into view in the course of a marvelously spare and pensive portrait of a black North American journalist, diverted to Santa Teresa to cover what turns out to be a pathetically lopsided boxing match between a black American boxer and a Mexican opponent.
The rough, slathered expanses offer unstinting views of flesh, thick and folded, or stretched thin over all-too-visible bones, of faces sad or pensive or blank.
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".
