Sentence examples for pretty pensive from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rivers volleyed percussive piano clusters against the clatter of sticks on drum rims; he built pieces from streaks and flurries of notes; he settled into pretty, pensive ballad tunes after scampering through abstractions on piano or tenor saxophone.

Still, he and his dramaturg, Michael Sexton, find accessibility and humor in the text and there are finely varied performances from Matthew Maher's hapless Roderigo, Finn Wittrock's pretty boy Cassio, David Wilson Barnes's pensive Duke and Marsha Stephanie Blake's waspish Emilia.

Then Victoria turned pensive.

Dave looked pensive.

Jonah seemed pensive, concerned.

Bechdel was pensive.

"Someone looks pensive," she said.

He looked pensive and uncomfortable.

Pensive, sometimes melancholy, tentative.

He seemed pensive.

They seemed pensive.