Sentence examples for silent contemplation from inspiring English sources

He stands in silent contemplation of the tiny space.

Wilson was particularly interested in whether people enjoy silent contemplation isolated from all diversions.

After Pleasence stepped down we were given a few minutes in silent contemplation.

During a moment of silent contemplation after the morning prayer, one cardinal's cellphone rang.

It might behove the congregation to bow its head occasionally in silent contemplation.

He had left his players in silent contemplation before making his point.

Silent, solitary contemplation was not sustainable.

The activities are predetermined and tightly scheduled: meditation, chanting religious verses, doing chores around the property and silent self-contemplation.

Besides the sermon and the classic rock, there was a screening of a trailer for a documentary about priests and pastors who had lost their faith, a reading of the Teddy Roosevelt passage "The Man in the Arena," a moment of silent, eyes-closed contemplation that was pretty much prayer, and a talk from Chris Stedmen, author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.

"How much I leave a tip in a Chinese buffet?" The group is silent for a moment in contemplation.

You end up contemplating your own contemplation.