The images sustain contemplation even though the physical appearance of the text edges into a state of no particulars.
Perhaps for a work of such sustained rhapsodic contemplation it's just a bit too long, but the musical ideas themselves and the sureness with which Hayes uses them are so fresh that it hardly matters.
A fifth house, the Secular Retreat, a hilltop hideaway designed by Peter Zumthor for contemplation or sustained work, is under construction in another popular haunt of the well-heeled Londoner, the South Hams district of Devon.
MP3: Oneida - "Seeds of Contemplation".
Contemplation and reflection is sustained by an overnight stay at the Foresteria attached to the Monastero di Camaldoli.
TENET's singers and players registered not only the notes but also the space around the notes: there were superbly timed pauses, lingering contemplations of sustained chords, phrases like exhalations.
Notes that were attacked sharply, then sustained at length, provoked deep contemplation of their varying qualities of reverberation and decay.
Then, sitting alone at the piano and accompanying herself in a flowing semiclassical style that allows her voice and instrument to breathe as one, she sustained a mood of deep contemplation, turning four of her finest originals — "My Father," "Secret Gardens," the recent "Wings of Angels" and "The Blizzard" — into a memory suite.
His songs often began in contemplation and introversion — an isolated guitar line, a sustained "ooh," a few quiet words — only to pick up momentum in canny, attentive arrangements until, as in "The Wolves," a testament of solitude turned into a foot-stomping hoedown.
I had a life that I loved in Chicago, but after some contemplation, I quickly realized my lifestyle was not going to be sustained by up-selling the "Double D Cupcakes".
