Afghanistan joined with European partners for Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone, a thoughtful reflection on the sufferings of Afghan women, given force and heart by the powerful performance of exiled Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani.
At a time when news is delivered instantaneously, and reflection on the news is crowded out by the latest piece of "news," why would you transform the Week in Review into the Sunday Review, which feels more like a weekly magazine (redundant in the Sunday Times) and increasingly less like a place where I can go to find thoughtful reflection on the events of the past week?
Millennials can join the exciting task of thoughtful reflection on equality issues, as churches seek to understand and interpret difficult biblical passages in a changing landscape.
The speech he made in 2006 at the University of Regensburg was a public relations disaster: one wonders how, in the midst of a deeply thoughtful reflection on faith and reason, he failed to foresee the damage he would cause by quoting, without evaluation, the Islamophobic remarks of a 14th-century Byzantine emperor.
This week, Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson, an African American historian, called his protest "a thoughtful reflection on how best to highlight the plague of injustice, and the need, finally, to hold our nation accountable for black death in the streets".
Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on initial journal writing, thoughtful participation in class discussions, thorough evaluation of a museum Web site, and thoughtful reflection on the Web site's overall success.
It provides an intimate setting for children to have a first encounter with art, a place of thoughtful reflection for many of our elderly who are not able to travel to Manhattan and a much-needed contrast to the hustle-bustle, strip-mall, S.U.V., cell-phone culture to which we in Nassau County seem to gravitate.
Best of all is the title track, a pained and thoughtful reflection on war and fate, as seen by a disillusioned soldier.
The presence of a voice such as Tsipras, offering a radical alternative to neoliberalism and austerity, should be welcomed if it serves to stimulate thoughtful reflection on the response to the crisis thus far.
And this thoughtful reflection on literature's resonances and echoes is a welcome glimpse into the heart and mind of its creator.
