Examples of contemplative

• Maxwell's life was not outwardly exciting or full of incident, but quiet and contemplative.

• She was beginning to yearn for a contemplative life.

• He wasn't always as calmly contemplative as he was in his late work.

• Mostly the songs are slow, still, ecstatically contemplative, extended in their development.

• What signifies the projects of contemplative men if the hammer and the lathe are not employed to call their ideas into existence?

• By these speculations, contemplative heads, who else might dangerously have busied themselves about state affairs, were finally moped and diverted.

• Additionally, both are dark, contemplative spaces with controlled lighting - the museum receives no daylight and the library has a small window above its built-in desk.

• In all of these works, carefully conceived microphone techniques create intimate experiences which draw the audience into a contemplative world of small ethereal sounds.