By then, Governor Whitman had already raised several million for the same Senate race, which she contemplated, but decided against.
Some might prefer a darker sound than Aspromonte's silvery soprano as the Messenger, but the series of pianissimos with which she contemplated eventual solitude was breathtaking.
But they also provided her with longed-for company, and a purpose to live after years in which she had contemplated suicide.
She generally avoided M.M.A. reporters, although she gave a moving interview to Ellen DeGeneres, in which she said she contemplated suicide after the loss.
She'd been lost in the roar of the vacuum — a device that had the power to put her under a spell, into a trancelike state from which she could most easily contemplate the nature of the universe, the purpose of love, the purpose of death, and a fantasy she sometimes had of being bound nude to a parking meter in the city.
The extreme discomfort, which she calls "cramping," made her contemplate dropping out at around mile 17, but she persevered — indeed, she placed third among women.
Looking at Bill now, sitting there reading one of his art journals, she wished that he would go to Dubai, too; it shocked her, the force with which she wished this, as did the composure with which she found herself contemplating it.
Among his celebrated nonfiction is (1977), which recounts his time as a law student, and (2003), in which he contemplates the ramifications of the death penalty.
(The anti-heroic "judge-penitent" of Albert Camus's novel "The Fall" possesses that panel, which he contemplates with existentialistically mixed feelings).
His own favourite episode of the cartoon was season one's Life on the Fast Lane, in which Marge contemplates an affair with a romantic French bowling instructor.
