The title poem of Forché's fourth collection takes the birth of her son as a starting point for contemplation of her own childhood, just after the Second World War, an era when "it was not as certain that a child would live to be grown".
Adams' score and Alice Goodman's libretto beg at this point for contemplation, a few seconds, at least, of stunned silence.
As devotional images, the images became the focal points for contemplation and mystical representation.
But I think I've never seen an excellent painting that is so masochistically cheerless, to the point of revelling in a contemplation of impotence.
At a certain point babies fully comprehend the attention-getting purpose of the pointing gestures of parents, and indeed duly focus on the shared object of contemplation several months (on average) before they start pointing with vigor themselves.
The opposite of point-and-shoot snapshots, these photographs are emblematic objects of contemplation.
He makes powerful images of the human condition using sculptural materials – which include animals but never humans because that would be nihilist, obscene, and the whole point of Hirst is to invite serious contemplation of life and death.
But there are also a couple of points in Scalia's dissents that are worth thinking about, if only as objects of contemplation.
These in turn lead to the final topic of contemplative happiness, where Lefèvre presents his conviction that human fulfillment or happiness is most fully achieved in contemplation of divine matters a point of agreement, he believed, between Aristotle and Christianity.
The slightest hint of contemplation worried them.
