Sentence examples for private contemplation from inspiring English sources

Libraries encourage intimate relationship to a text, private contemplation of a thought.

The show is big enough to suggest the artist's range, but small enough to encourage private contemplation.

Before tipoff, Anthony sat at his locker, gold-colored headphones over his ears, his eyes closed and his arms crossed — a picture of private contemplation or quiet frustration.

The moral to these stories might be that there is no indignity so great that it cannot be overcome with enough time, humility and private contemplation.

Haydn's dramatic scena, Arianna a Naxos, comes into its own, the seriousness, virtuosity and beauty of the performance easier to enjoy in private contemplation.

The survey of 1,000 people by the marketing agency 11mark found that private contemplation has given way to toilet-time talking, texting, shopping, using apps, or just surfing the Web, by both sexes and most ages.

There remains the general question as to whether these 48 pieces are at their best played consecutively and in public or whether they were meant for private study and contemplation.

When the city rolls out its share-a-cab program this fall, the solitary taxi ride — and its private, if jerky, moments of contemplation — will yield to the more intimate world of communal travel.

You end up contemplating your own contemplation.

According to Upton, the scene "became a source of emotional reward for one's faith, a private vision in response to one's contemplation".

Lovers on both sides fall into melancholy contemplation of the competing demands of private love and public life.