contemplatively

Examples of contemplation

contemplation
Linguistic control systems enable human beings to transcend individual experience and allow the contemplation of possibilities that never have been, and never could be, experienced.
The role of the villa might remain the space that enables contemplation to become an ethos, and for action to become reconciled with poetry.
Perhaps there is more virtuosity than contemplation in the genuine solo verses.
Isolated and categorized representations of objects are creatures of detached contemplation.
No more did he wallow in mystic contemplation of ecstatic union with the divine.
Contemplation of the world's disappearing supplies of minerals, forests, and other exhaustible assets has led to demands for regulation of their exploration.
He sat in contemplation, as he rehearsed, then practised falling over, slowly.
Such an effect was not so easily generated as a consequence of contemplation of the power of the divine will.
He has thrown out a massive agenda for contemplation, rigorous thought, some research, and hugely important political decisions.
Our goal is not ' life-affirming activity ' but ' quasiaesthetic and passive contemplation '.#!
These correlations will be examined with reference to the sources on the ambulatory contemplation and the texts on the art of memory.
It seemed he had achieved the solitude for study and contemplation which he had always sought.
No one could raise a circumstance of life so intensely without contemplation of the opposite condition.
I enjoy the contemplation of ideas over time, until the need for expression, and further development, become emotionally compelling.
But my aim here is to explore the idea of a critical distance on life and on thought, achieved through the contemplation of age.
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