'philosophical contemplation' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when referring to a thoughtful process of exploring and understanding the deeper meanings of life. For example, "John indulged in philosophical contemplation about the true meaning of life."
With the poetry of al-Maʿarrī, the homiletic aspect is blended with philosophical contemplation and pessimism.
The album's unity of tone, mood, thought, and philosophical contemplation matches its organic musical flow.
There, cradled by a beautiful wooden base, it would serve as an object of philosophical contemplation.
But the cheerfulness of my mind, which comes from the recollection of all my philosophical contemplation, counterbalances all these afflictions".
The delight that a human being takes in the sublimest moments of philosophical contemplation is in God a perpetual state.
The action in a Marías novel will, at the most critical moment, halt abruptly as the narrator spends paragraphs, even pages, in philosophical contemplation.
Mr. Boas, 56, a Cornell Univer- sity graduate with the quick, extroverted manner of trader, oversees the trading desk; Mr. Marks, 53, a West Point graduate, who tends to glide off into philosophical contemplations, oversees the firm's investments.
Whereas lifting ordinary kids outside their ordinary sphere to the plane of philosophical contemplations runs the risk of turning them all, to some degree, into detached ruminators of life, not even spectators but theorists, critics, or — to use the word on which both "The Social Network" and Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" turn — assholes.
Whereas lifting ordinary kids outside their ordinary sphere to the plane of philosophical contemplations runs the risk of turning them all, to some degree, into detached ruminators of life, not even spectators but theorists, critics, or to use the word on which both "The Social Network" and Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" turn assholes.
Literature can inform our philosophical contemplations on grief in multiple ways.
Jamison weaves philosophical contemplations and literary references in with personal observation and experience to create a deeply insightful work.
