pensiveness

Then the pensiveness faded as she turned back to me.

Yes, Caroline had thought, a certain pensiveness in the eyes, the same gray blue.

Her performance was impressive for its episodes of restraint and pensiveness.

But Jake had lapsed into pensiveness, seeming not to listen.

Her voice had lost its trace of pensiveness.

No one else seemed to notice his pensiveness.

In her pensiveness she did not notice, simply squeezed the fingers he had intertwined with hers.

"No," she said, and in her sudden pensiveness she could have been mistaken for beautiful.

It was not the old serenity, the pensiveness that was recollection.

If he'd said ten years or even a hundred I could have worked up pensiveness as a minimum, and probably full-scale fright.

There was a pensiveness in her face for a moment, as though she had thought of something else, something she did not understand.

Richter finds disarming delicacy and surprising pensiveness in the music.

This week, the normally spirited atmosphere was replaced with a kind of eulogistic pensiveness.

Was Blackjack's presence on the upcoming mission what had led to his own pensiveness and sense of disconnection?

She now looked ahead with graceful pensiveness.

She was mostly a silhouette in the wan moonlight, rather pretty in her pensiveness.

But there is always a wistfulness about the laughter and a pensiveness that undercuts the comedy.

A simple notion from the prologue, of dance braking into pensiveness, is vastly enlarged.

The spirited Romulan could not tolerate his friend's pensiveness and decided to do something about it.

The murmuring of Latin text and pensiveness of mood is much alike the first movement.

Occasionally he pulled back to just sing a ballad, benefiting from a casual humor in his pensiveness.

They also made fleeting moments of eagerness or pensiveness seem as if emotional lights and shadows had passed through the ballroom.

They navigate within a self-contained, almost ostentatious pensiveness.

The central interlude has a dry pensiveness to it; the finale features crossing rhythms in the brass.

The humor seemed to break through Dax's pensiveness, and she turned away from the discussion with a crooked smile.