Dr. Schwartz, the show's co-curator, called these works "massive, powerful contemplations of sculptural space".
The sea has a powerful music, one that provokes contemplation, best appreciated without distraction — no earphones, no music, no iPod.
"What makes the film more than a powerful thriller is its unflinching contemplation of human frailty," wrote Stephen Holden of The New York Times, one of many critics who have praised the movie.
If "Traffic" illustrates how the underfunded, red-tape-bound good guys are no match against the enemy's superior resources, what makes the film more than a powerful thriller is its unflinching contemplation of human frailty.
Francesco Buranelli, the commission's secretary, said the restored chapel, which was inaugurated in April, now "offers a moment of spiritual contemplation as well as powerful emotion".
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
But in the end, the practical knowledge of the servants will prove much more powerful and effective compared to the lofty contemplations of the Masters who, instead of really interacting with and transforming nature, rather develop a worldview, i.e. an imaginary vision of nature (as a spherical, harmonious whole, a κόσμος).
The competitors were urged to "convey the magnitude of personal and physical loss at this location," and also "encourage reflection and contemplation" and "create an original and powerful statement of enduring and universal symbolism".
On Wednesday, the Rev. Robert Robinson, the pastor, decided to keep the church open for worship all day for the nine days of a novena, a traditionally powerful prayer, starting an ebb and flow of grief and contemplation that continues in the modern, rectilinear sanctuary.
Salutati, the learned chancellor of Florence whose words could batter cities, represented in word and deed the humanistic ideal of an armed wisdom, that combination of philosophical understanding and powerful rhetoric that alone could effect virtuous policy and reconcile the rival claims of action and contemplation.
