On either side of the Supreme Court steps, on top of fifty-ton marble blocks, sits a sculpted figure: the Contemplation of Justice, on the left, and the Authority of Law, on the right.
A PAIR of quotations from Junichiro Tanizaki, a Japanese writer, on the loveliness of laquerware almost leads one to expect a book on the contemplation of beauty.
The result, for the audience, is that our responses bypass the usual affective mechanics of identification and empathy, settling instead on the contemplation of a soul in isolation.
Drawing upon work by Pepper, D. W. Prall (1929, 1936), and George Santayana (1923), Lewis held that an aesthetic appreciation of art is based on the contemplation of an "aesthetic object" presented by the work.
Turning to the predictive effect of stages of change at therapy entrance on therapeutic alliance on discharge, we identified significant predictive effects of the contemplation scale on both emotional bond and agreement on collaboration at discharge.
Later, it developed into a core practice of monastics involving ritual prostrations with the body, contemplation on the features of enlightened beings and vocal recitation of their names, conducted with long lists of Buddhas and bodhisattvas.
"Who's more important Bill Gates or the President of the United States?" asks Phil, a city boy who looks a lot like Ben Stiller, to Inga, his Latvian companion, presumably trying to impress her with this contemplation on the true essence of power.
A university reading room was an ideal place to hear the work: both songs like "The Crucifixion," a contemplation on the sacrifice of Jesus, and "The Monk and His Cat," a charming tribute by a monk to the solitary life he shares with Pangur, his white mouse-hunting cat.
