contemplativeness

A modern Persephone, she is at ease shuttling between contemplativeness and advocacy.

Contemplativeness was what the music was mostly about.

But on this day, contemplativeness has been overtaken by the hunt for Rachel, one of her most popular escorts.

That distance and contemplativeness can seem maddeningly disengaged.

Tent life has attuned these Semitic nomads to contemplativeness.

It combined a hyperkinetic flair with conservative contemplativeness.

Mr. Sheridan, who is burdened with inspirational statements about the miracle of life, conveys Brian's philosophical contemplativeness but not the visceral fear behind it.

The music could be described as depicting the mind state sought during meditation, when you strive for contemplativeness and let intrusive thoughts just register and then float right by.

The most popular film in France during the last 12 months has been "La Femme Nikita," a slick, calculating mixture of French contemplativeness and American flying glass.

As a soap opera elevated by its stellar cast and given the illusion of contemplativeness by repeated slow-motion shots of a car crash, "Intersection" really ought to be more fun.

The agonized march of the opening movement turned with a palpable sense of relief into the contemplativeness of the surreal pastoral interlude, only to tighten its grip even more powerfully toward the close.

The artists that such refined contemplativeness evokes include, foremost, Agnes Martin,and also Josef Albers, Sol LeWitt and, in the suggestion of architectural models, Will Insley.

But what's true is that he did share with various 1960's and 70's visual artists, Minimalist or not, an interest in an expansive, grave unfolding of simplified forms, and a contemplativeness that is inherently spiritual.

As things stand now, there is a serious risk that the essential dignity of the original design - its austere contemplativeness - will be sacrificed to confusion and the concerns of narrow interests operating behind the scenes.

THE MELANCHOLY contemplativeness that suffuses much of Bonnie Raitt's rich new album "Longing in Their Hearts" may take some of her more recent converts by surprise.

Luc Besson, the original film maker, achieved a stunning synthesis of French contemplativeness and American violence in his slick, manipulative story of a feral punk who is saved from extinction and then trained as an assassin.

The 1995 "Lisbon Story," which finally opens today at the Anthology Film Archives, was financed by the City of Lisbon and commissioned as a work of civic boosterism, albeit one of exceptional contemplativeness and emotion.

The accounts of Mr. Rajneesh's talks, which much impressed Dr. Gordon as pursuing "the possibility of cross-fertilization between the energy of democratic America and the contemplativeness of the East," seem like a quick tour of religious notions East and West.

Bartok's Quartet No. 3 (1927), in the Emerson's warm-hued, virtuosic account, has it both ways: the tinge of modernist angularity and harmonic rootlessness give it its irresistible drive, yet shards of Beethovenian contemplativeness occasionally drift through, like glimpses of a lost world.