Next month, Criterion is releasing, on Blu-ray and DVD, the film in which Chaplin considers his art and his life in the light of the cinema — or, rather, contemplates what it would have been without it — namely, "Limelight," from 1952.
Even further, I would rather contemplate a chicken liver (albeit sautéed with grapes and Marsala) over any amount of pistachio-stuffed chicken breast.
The Bush administration has managed to dodge the hard questions and benefit from an atmosphere in which the media and much of the public would rather contemplate Jennifer's navel and Arnold's fading pecs than pursue a possible pattern of deceit at the highest levels of government.
And for those of you who would still rather contemplate the peccadilloes of movie stars instead of the sins of a nation or the cruelty of the cosmos, there is the Roundabout's new production of "Twentieth Century," Ken Ludwig's adaptation of the classic Ben Hecomedyarles Macomedyr comedy.
They would rather contemplate immigration, despite its many challenges, including the often extreme difficulty of acquiring visas, and the risks of enlisting the services of human smugglers.
"We didn't want to be seen as this narrow-minded government agency," said Nelken, the road department spokeswoman, who would rather contemplate potholes than abstract questions about palm trees as art.
He rather sentimentally contemplates moving back to, or at any rate near, the ancestral farm his father's family still owns in the sun-blasted Karoo, even though the exigencies of that life are clearly beyond him.
Rather it contemplates the individual contribution of every pixel to both r and R. The exhaustive image analysis performed in the present work, as well as its statistical validation, support the notion of a real localization of recombinant DsRed-MEK1 in mitochondria of HeLa and MEF erk1−/− cells.
For instance, rather than contemplating the precise position of their wrist, they contemplated descriptive adjectives such as "smooth" or "balanced".
The visitors here come to engage with nature rather than contemplate its mysteries.
So, according to Grant, Britain should be upping its input rather than contemplating disengagement.
