Sentence examples for the pensive from inspiring English sources

The pensive gnu, the staid aardvark.

He reintroduced the pensive Sayid-Nadia theme.

The pensive slow movement was beautifully restrained.

Cohen, especially, has the pensive cast of a professional worrier.

The pensive Tatiana lives in a world of books.

"Misha was the pensive serpent sitting next to the leader".

But I don't see the pensive looks as much.

Instead he encounters the pensive queen, who hides her identity.

The pensive second movement is written in Hindemith's trademark musical language: essentially tonal but harmonically elusive.

In the pensive Adagio movement, she played with aching tenderness and melting sound.

Many of Mr. Oliveira's films have the pensive, melancholic quality of memento mori.