For instance, the minor triad is usually heard as sad, or at least pensive, because humans habitually hear all chords as based from below.
The second movement's plaintive mood makes it popular as background music for pensive or nocturnal scenes in film.
He however seems harmless enough, and looks rather pensive and pained.
There were also several songs with a softer and more pensive theme.
The girls have a pensive dignity as though they are pondering the burdens and joylessness of a future to be spent as caryatids.
Its dissonances and complexities juxtapose the sustained with the pointillistic, mirroring the characters' pensive but restless wanderings.
Pensive images were popular in the other two kingdoms.
A£4,000 house would be fairly ex pensive.
