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"contemplative" Definitions
  1. thinking quietly and seriously about something
  2. spending time thinking deeply about religious matters

694 Sentences With "contemplative"

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Liam can do contemplative as well, and "Chinatown" is proof.
They often take place in our quietest, most contemplative spaces.
The lustrous, contemplative abstractions in Alluvion are entrancing and enigmatic.
But you will see the contemplative president developing foreign policy.
That is contemplative time and I approached it that way.
Overall, Go Be Forgotten is expansive and, at times, contemplative.
" After a contemplative pause, he added, "It's a great story.
It's a contemplative, foreboding, eerie moment, narrated by three countertenors.
Hardy, contemplative and literary, frequently ponders the nature of freedom.
Ward sits with one leg curled into her, comfortable and contemplative.
The title track is poignant and contemplative, but resolutely unpretty too.
It is studied, it is serious, it is contemplative and thoughtful.
Craig did a lot of contemplative sighing to Are You Alone?
The Pen-F, then, feels better suited for more contemplative photography.
It was a contemplative moment from Mr. Jones, who on Oct.
They wanted the contemplative reflection of Solange, Beyoncé, and Frank Ocean.
Here we are rounding the contemplative-staring bend of the bunch.
City, usually so bewitching, was slow, contemplative, a little sterile, even.
Sometimes I feel glitchy and colorful and sometimes contemplative and monochrome.
Our critic Jennifer Szalai calls "Inseparable" a "contemplative yet engrossing" history.
But his voice turned contemplative as he spoke about his sibling.
This year's crop of excellent new wine books was particularly contemplative.
"These are really slow-moving, methodical, contemplative tools," he told me.
The music turns to minor keys and becomes contemplative, even mournful.
The time-traveling effect is mesmerizing, contemplative, and just plain neat.[DCist]
It's a beautifully shot and contemplative channel that's sure to relax you.
The Young Pope is less urgent and focused than contemplative and playful.
But I was in a contemplative mood, and it got me thinking.
We're seeing fewer mindless shoot-em-ups and more contemplative spirit quests.
The teacher wanted the student to slow down, to become more contemplative.
After this revelation, Amanda performs the Classic Bachelor Franchise Contemplative Balcony Shot.
Conversely, a period of contemplative distance can put reality in sharp relief.
For an enterprising contemplative, it's never been easier to make a buck.
These contemplative practices center around sitting with certain questions and identity construction.
" As an example, he brings up the contemplative Listening Matter track "Layette.
Here are nine gifts for the hustler, the innovator, the contemplative creative.
This causes her destruction, sanctified with a contemplative yet stunned choral number.
"So far, the quotes are rather tame and contemplative," one user complained.
Atmospheric and soul-stirring, Taylor's sculptures appear to be thoughtful, contemplative beings.
The melody, penned by the singer, brought out her most contemplative side.
With an almost contemplative intensity of focus, I make myself a martini.
And yet his roles have gotten quieter and more contemplative of late.
A contemplative guy, he took the time to step back and think.
It's an immediate, unmediated pleasure that nonetheless may be complex and contemplative.
It's a beautiful run; for me, it's my sort of contemplative practice.
In early 2019, however, Ansari seemed to take a more contemplative turn.
Instead, it was an excavation, and a contemplative, measured one at that.
Rocking would disrupt the cleansing of their muted, vulnerable, contemplative, vague feelings.
Within seconds, I noticed I am happier, less irritable, more contemplative and balanced.
Fans captured her looking extremely serious and contemplative as well as goofing off.
It was a beautiful contemplative place that meant so much to so many.
I ditch the faster pop-punk and rock for slower, more contemplative music.
Ghostly, contemplative melodic breaks elevate second track "Astray" into a full-on odyssey.
You can be your own guru simply by being still, aware, and contemplative.
My most recent work has really been very contemplative, and meditative I guess.
"Speculation" has meant close, contemplative attention to a matter since the fourteenth century.
The warmly received "Paterson" finds Jim Jarmusch in a lovely, self-contemplative mood.
It's opposite to that quiet, contemplative, meditative thing that works for some people.
Carl Arico, a co-founder of Contemplative Outreach, said in a telephone interview.
This is the proverbial contemplative drink for sipping in front of the fire.
Mr. Etheredge's insight and contemplative nature lend a tangible feel to his work.
Both use every moment of their lengthy runtimes to generate a contemplative mood.
Mr. Burson collected stamps and looked like an old-world philatelist: contemplative, analytical.
For the trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, revelation emerges from a place of contemplative darkness.
In many cases, these painters' works are installed in contemplative single-artist galleries.
His music as Mind Over Mirrors is mercurial and mystical, effervescent and contemplative.
It's a tone that seems to belong to something other than the contemplative vignette.
Hence, the reactions lean in two directions, one giving encouragement and one more contemplative.
The episodes are never plot-heavy, instead focused on creating contemplative and melancholic moods.
The iPhone's 10th anniversary this past week has put me in a contemplative mood.
It's quiet, it's contemplative, it's unlike just about every game released before or since.
The Moon enters fellow Earth sign Taurus tonight, putting you in a contemplative mood.
You're in a contemplative mood today, Taurus, as the moon moves through philosophical Sagittarius.
The prose is slow and contemplative, as if to conjure a steady, ambling pace.
At times, he's romantic, but insecure; other times, he's extremely contemplative and self-aware.
What unites these artists isn't style but mode: Each benefits from contemplative, unhurried listening.
Shadow of the Colossus, the first one, is many positive things: Beautiful, challenging, contemplative.
I've had wines that were simultaneously contemplative and so joyous they made me laugh.
Sweet and contemplative, he's an adult with Asperger's syndrome, and she's a helicopter sibling.
The morning after his first chiric sanago drink, Julian Moran is quiet and contemplative.
Doubtless, Dreamlands isn't readily allowing of contemplative appreciation of many of its individual works.
Their music is really contemplative and critical of society – especially their new album Drones.
His subdued account of "Clair de lune" set a contemplative mood in the hall.
The diary becomes a record of his unraveling, as contemplative melancholy spirals into despair.
Seven photographs included in the exhibition, also shot on film, share the contemplative mood.
Celebrating his colleagues' return to the motherland had put him in a contemplative mood.
It is a contemplative concert work — utterly mesmerizing, despite modern-leaning harmonies — and enchanting.
It's the nature of Noh to be contemplative, and that's what this "Antigone" is.
But the composer James Holt heard within the piece a strangely contemplative choral work.
The visual is dark and brooding, reflecting the contemplative lyrics found on the song.
Both are hopefully the starting point for more works from these two contemplative duos.
I didn't exactly expect a contemplative character dramedy from him, but hey — we got one!
Her other stage works are also contemplative and sometimes static, but intellectually and musically rewarding.
The human figure's absence from these fire scenes likewise encourages contemplative detachment over urgent empathy.
Lazzaretto Vecchio, on the other hand, has the hushed, contemplative atmosphere of an art gallery.
It's one of those movies that puts me in a contemplative and mischievous zone after.
The images, staunch in their flat-footed objecthood, are transmuted into something contemplative, abstracted, metaphysical.
The mood that night was "contemplative," with a palpable grief yoking many of the mourners.
I'm wondering if you have thoughts on contemplative practice as an option for an intervention.
The judges were drawn to this book because the illustrations are both exciting and contemplative.
The picture helps brighten the spirit of a dining room that tends toward contemplative twilight.
Remarkably, though, the tone of the singer remains less shocked or shocking, more ruefully contemplative.
Quite the opposite, in fact — one is drawn to the contemplative aspect of the works.
The combination should encourage long contemplative sit-downs that will make any parent's heart sing.
Meanwhile, Rousey looks down over the Los Angeles landscape in contemplative seclusion, plotting her return.
When he first started out, he wrote pop songs with contemplative lyrics about broken marriages.
It's a mirror on our society; people are seeking this more contemplative type of music.
Blending formal meditation with other contemplative practices, the course is now taught around the world.
But I'm not minding the contemplative slow build when it's done as well as this.
As lyrical and beautiful as Jenkins' direction is, his contemplative script seems afraid of itself.
YOB songs, which often exceed fifteen minutes, are contemplative incantations similar to chakra-alignment music.
He is currently with the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, Emory University.
Contending with peeling paint and broken plaster, the artists manage a surprisingly effective contemplative atmosphere.
This one portrays Lenin as contemplative, looking down while holding a notebook and a pencil.
He's good-looking but doesn't flaunt it, since he's too busy frowning in a contemplative way.
Writer Amy Liptrot penned this contemplative essay set during one summer night in the Berlin club.
Croupiers sit in contemplative silence, destined to forever smell of strong straight cigarettes and spilled drinks.
Longhaired, lanky and contemplative, Jeff, the musician, equivocated when asked whether he approved of the bombing.
"That kind of framework lets you be a little more contemplative as you listen," McAnally said.
I guess I have always been contemplative, sometimes almost getting completely lost in thought, a daydreamer.
It's the kind of slow, contemplative film that typically has a small release in specialty theaters.
We see her looking fiercely contemplative at the island fortress once held by her Targaryen ancestry.
She's joined in this alternately playful and contemplative endeavor by a captivating, multigenerational cadre of performers.
He is a kind, contemplative, loyal man, the sort who hates the idea of harming anybody.
In contemplative passages of many songs, like Rachmaninoff's beguiling "Before My Window," she conveyed wonderful intimacy.
What kind of moment is hard to say, but it was more than a contemplative moment.
He does not look contemplative or melancholy when he meditates on these things, but rather furious.
And the abbey, they say, is a repository of wisdom about the benefits of contemplative living.
The recent deaths of two close friends who had cancer have made Ms. Versace more contemplative.
Instead of lusting for battle and honor, we see a thoughtful, contemplative version of the race.
Moses Sumney's songs are meditations — they're brooding and contemplative and controlled by his focused, talented voice.
In the early stages, it appears to be the contemplative twin of her aggressive swimming stroke.
Blood was shed to protect the rights of these workers, and it is a contemplative day.
The longer, even more contemplative songs in the second part question the hopes of the first.
And often, Mr. Cole raps with a forceful tone at odds with his contemplative subject matter.
The Italian sculptor's contemplative and dynamic work is currently on display at the Wasserman Projects in Detroit.
Although I normally prefer a single shot, sender, you've created an interesting portrait with a contemplative tone.
The overall effect is of a universe created as it comments on itself — an actively contemplative universe.
In that case, it was part of Morgan's evolution from murder machine to contemplative man of peace.
It's a testament to André Aciman's beautiful writing that this moment reads like poetry — intimate, contemplative, tender.
The now mega movie star shared a contemplative (or is it intense?) photo on his Instagram account.
Are they a yeller or a contemplative presence in the boardroom, no matter how tough things get?
I liked the idea of shooting a dreamy, contemplative moment, almost like a still from a film.
Her process is slow and deliberate: Even threading her loom before she begins is a contemplative ritual.
Nevertheless, he sees our current direction as indicative of "the loss of the contemplative mind," he said.
For most of its four hours, "Tristan" is expansively contemplative: a meditation on the power of love.
In a prison interview with The New York Times in 2008, Mr. Cholmondeley seemed contemplative and remorseful.
It encouraged his move in a contemplative direction and brought a new soft grace to his work.
My studio is an essential part of the process of creating my abstract contemplative work on paper.
He likes brash fields of finely textured noise, as well as contemplative pieces generously dotted with silence.
Williams tempers its violence with something more contemplative, until all of L.L.'s bellicosity is drained away.
Riquelme, Alonso said, was too much of an individual, too contemplative, to thrive in the modern era.
He is an elegant, contemplative filmmaker, observing strong emotions with a careful balance of sympathy and detachment.
Mr. Neiman was sketching Ali, contemplative, with his hands taped and about to have his gloves fitted.
Technical problems plague the shows, as amplifiers unexpectedly feed back, demolishing the contemplative simplicity of the music.
For all his raw power on the field, Drogba is a bright, contemplative character away from it.
It means he's sarcastic, or melancholy, or contemplative, or thinking about man stuff, like chargrilled oysters and golf.
It's very rewarding to see a gentle, thoughtful, contemplative film meet with the success it has so far.
There is the standard rosary, a contemplative rosary or a thematic rosary, which will be updated every year.
Coral takes a deep, contemplative hit off her vaporizer, which has a purple base and looks very expensive.
His pose is half-"Blue Steel," half-contemplative, with his legs crossed and left hand on his chin.
Since his wife suffered a seizure last week, Ryan Sutter has been in a confused and contemplative state.
The song is reportedly inspired by ex Perrie Edwards and features Zayn in a much more contemplative mode.
In those contemplative moments when you're in your prison cell at night, you really begin to analyze yourself.
Spitting over classic American hip-hop beats, it demonstrated a different side to Skrapz: one more melodic, contemplative.
The pieces in the new exhibition are meant to invite a quieter, more contemplative experience, Ms. Greenwald said.
Like "Merrily," it's contemplative and structurally bold; unlike "Merrily," it conveys no wistfulness for the way it was.
Brooklyn-raised, D.C.-based artist, KingKla$$, has shared a contemplative new single, "Rackson" featuring Buffalo, NY's ChaunSAY Mackin.
Perhaps as a result, young people appear to be more cautious and contemplative when it comes to dating.
Starting late April, The Doll's House adapts Hart's 2015 multimedia ballet, The Dolls, into a contemplative exhibition format.
Ms. Shyu's vocal solidity — whether tender and contemplative, or more overtly theatrical — is what made the set cohere.
In the video clip, Wise transforms the contemplative fan favorite into an even eerier and more emotional tune.
By the time he lets his vulnerability show, he has hit the quiet, contemplative phase of extreme drunkenness.
It's that the show, which is now being produced by Spotify, thrives as an achievement of contemplative audio.
Mr. Ferla, who came across in an interview as softly spoken and contemplative, was philosophical about the changes.
New Yorkers debated whether Central Park should be a place of protest or an oasis of contemplative beauty.
And so they observed the contemplative silence of Pearl Harbor and roamed the pitted landscape surrounding Hawaii's volcanoes.
Glenstone aims to admit about 400 people a day, to ensure that visitors can have a contemplative experience.
Are we not all crying out for music this perfect and still and contemplative and, most importantly, human?
Then conclude at the most contemplative, and strongest, third — the gowns evoking orders and sacraments at the Cloisters.
Is this idyllic site in the Song Mountains of Henan Province a contemplative retreat or a theme park?
The only requirement for audiences is a curious, open mind, and a willingness to sit in contemplative silence.
But The Irishman is legitimately great — not Martin Scorsese's most satisfying film, but certainly among his most contemplative.
In his tirelessly experimental music, Abakuá and Lucumí folklore become an invitation to enter a diffusely contemplative space.
The string quartet plays episodes of contemplative, modal-tinged harmonies that lend a timeless cast to the storytelling.
No matter how contemplative the melodies, this isn't just sorrow, but grief performed, an intentional artifice of agony.
JOHANNES VERMEER'S depictions of contemplative moments in serene Dutch interiors have made viewers lean in and gasp for centuries.
Listen, and you'll hear the smooth and contemplative roots of the jazz music that Jamie Isaac grew up on.
Pump out "Life Will Change" for a good jam number or "Beneath the Rain" for those somber, contemplative moments.
The track itself is contemplative, stripped back and sees Shogun rap in his characteristic rapid-fire, pitter patter flow.
It has a heavy plot thick with metaphors and cinematic flair, but Death Stranding soars in the contemplative moments.
But the juxtaposition of fast, thrilling action game and quiet, contemplative setting are what really hold the game back.
Yet "Symphonics" is also marked by more stillness than any other ballet in the repertory: upright, statuesque, contemplative stillness.
This beautiful new sound seems like it came right out of Blade Runner or some other contemplative sci-fi.
Both are beginning to show signs of their old selves: Jadon, the rambunctious one, and Anias, the contemplative one.
"I felt the more austere the life, the sooner I would achieve the contemplative life I sought," he continued.
As a result, falling into contemplative states before each of the paintings in this show is effortless and immersive.
Most verse lovers I hear from also mention the buoyant, contemplative lines of the former poet laureate Billy Collins.
The world Mr. Heath presents is quiet and contemplative; he even renders war mute, still and full of meaning.
Across styles, the label's hallmark has been the contemplative detail of its music, a kind of acoustic enhanced realism.
Though some songs course with intensity and break into frenetic passages, the music over all has a contemplative quality.
But if you're more of a contemplative observer, like me, those little aquariums will keep you entranced for hours.
She ran the gauntlet of emotions: mourning, raging, physical suffering, contemplative, authoritative, and in one scene with Spock, playful.
Each daily Meditation is just that — a contemplative act of play that's replaced by a new one within 24 hours.
The contemplative, painterly work of the photographer Saul Leiter was a source of inspiration for the film's New York streetscapes.
The relaxing piano melodies and hushed synth pads combine with an angelic chorus to create a sense of contemplative calm.
Often this music would be specifically presented as an assistant to a spiritual practice from a mystical and contemplative tradition.
The other artists were less interesting in their concern with enacting a ritual, or creating an experience of contemplative readiness.
The camera handles slower, contemplative photography just fine, but it had trouble keeping up when I photographed more demanding scenes.
Composed primarily of long, contemplative shots, the film waits 18 minutes into its 70-minute run time to introduce dialogue.
Overall, it felt introspective, contrite and contemplative — a self-reflection from a community genuine about shoring up its ethical shortcomings.
It lacks the obvious moral urgency of a Spotlight or the contemplative poetry, and maybe even humanism, of a Moonlight.
Ms. Ziskel and Mr. Beck returned for a sensitive performance of "Autumnal," a contemplative yet mercurial duo by Mr. Knussen.
I have many pianos and other instruments in my studio as both contemplative objects and potential material for physical work.
"Contemplative religious communities need an income producing work that is consistent with their life of enclosure and prayer," she explained.
Drawing Fire Even the most contemplative graphic novels offer a kinetic sense of play guaranteed to hook your colleagues' interest.
Overall, its mood conveys something between sorrow and hopefulness, suggestive altogether of a contemplative pause in an overwhelmingly distressing moment.
Figures alone in contemplative trances, or alienated from their partners in scenes of evident tension, define most of the works.
But these sisters felt called to pursue a contemplative life, where their service came in the form of their prayers.
An album that felt colorless and desperate—Cale wrote of shame, death, "the crawling skin of God"—became contemplative, conciliatory.
In Mr. Bengson's more contemplative solos, Shaun summons a loop of scenarios in which Abigail leaves him, again and again.
There are existential echoes of Beckett and Albee in this contemplative work that's part TED talk, part show and tell.
The Hulu comedy is a curious and contemplative look into the life of a millennial Muslim American and his family.
It is an expression of culture, a convivial pleasure, a companion to food and, occasionally, an emotional and contemplative experience.
Yes, there is death and disaster, but the game is also full of quiet, contemplative moments, just like its predecessor.
Feel free to engage your father about his feelings — preferably one-on-one and when the moment is suitably contemplative.
Standouts from the Type-3 include the soul-influenced "Nothing Wrong," featuring DZ Know, and the contemplative "Storm," featuring Masiwei.
The process of painting hundreds of layers of paint and then partially shaving them away is both aggressive and contemplative.
Belson's interest in contemplative, introspective states is what I find fascinating and compelling about his work, whatever manifestation it takes.
For this edition of "The Last Record," Green chose a mix of progressive and contemplative singer-songwriter production and deep house.
She has been running her own label since 2013, and is always looking for the perfect, contemplative way of showing it.
But here, in person, he's turned down the drama — safe for his signature taupe smokey eye — for a more contemplative demeanor.
I'm no fan of working in the dark, but mornings are typically a quiet, contemplative time to work on other projects.
Podcasting will change the world by bringing us back to literary non-fiction and encourage contemplative, not consumptive, models of media.
Gazing at this wispy, gleaming spider silk sculpture, while listening to the chaotic yet captivating music, is deeply contemplative, even reverential.
This is Nathan Drake as the contemplative man torn between the adventures of his past and the domesticity of his present.
Each percussion hit, keyboard stroke, and processing effect is presented with minimum embellishment, which gives the song a contemplative, organic feel.
Clad in blue Adidas shorts and a white tank top, the baby stares off into the distance with a contemplative look.
In this final offering, he reached a kind of apex of his contemplative style, presenting 24 versions of a single vision.
During a Mass with the first group of contemplative brothers, Mother Teresa pinned a cross on a priest and six laymen.
Solnit's mind ranges widely from social media to literature to the "leakiness" of language, in a style both contemplative and visceral.
And his production includes two exquisitely theatrical moments — artfully enriched by Mikaal Sulmain's sound design — that explode the prevailing, contemplative calm.
He spent several years living in a contemplative community near Paris, combining prayer with manual work and the study of philosophy.
When I showed up at his office some days later for our interview, I found the senator in a contemplative mood.
The contemplative pity on Ms. Taub's face at that moment says everything you need to know about a joke turned toxic.
Their tour is catnip for those who like their music guitar-driven and contemplative but still easy to nod along to.
At this all-night D.J. set, expect heady grooves that can coax even the most contemplative fan onto the dance floor.
Pop by for contemplative views of the water, and to see a cross section of the city, by bike or foot.
The film instead takes a distinct turn away from rat-a-tat plotting and revenge toward a frankly stunning, contemplative movement.
Title track "Undertale" loops a set of hushed chimes around a spiraling, contemplative tune and becomes a thing of bent fragility.
There are only three characters in the opera and action is sparse; the listener is instead lured on a contemplative, Wagnerian journey.
The visitors, mostly African-Americans, seem totally absorbed: quietly contemplative or softly sharing their responses ("They wouldn't serve me at the counter").
It's brutal and dark like Jennifer's Body, only instead of an energetic horror movie it's a contemplative examination of one woman's psyche.
In his Wednesday address, Kasich struck a contemplative note, reflecting on his journey through the primary season, and looking toward the future.
This might bring to mind rushed and hustling songs, but Morby's album stays true to his roots: It's contemplative, unfussy folk rock.
A notable aesthetic choice was the use of doorways to create a contemplative mood while keeping his characters framed by the door.
"Dryad," directed by Thomas Vernay, was a gorgeous, contemplative piece with the narrative confidence to select one premise and stick with it.
Dr. Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi developed a cognitively based compassion training program at Emory University that is based on Tibetan contemplative methods.
The gallery of photographs that you've taken over the years is a standout portion of the show as a contemplative, intimate space.
She steers gracefully through a zigzagging plot, slowing down for quiet, contemplative stretches and pausing for jokes that are irrelevant but irresistible.
By the time she shared the shimmery, sometimes hazy and contemplative Take Me Apart in summer 2017, she sounded her most confident.
In "Marksman," the choreographer Kate Weare takes inspiration from that guide to explore human interactions and relationships in a calm, contemplative way.
Jha is an associate professor of psychology and director of contemplative neuroscience and the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative at the university.
It's a moody, contemplative piece of work, and a vividly tactile one as well, lingering on food, smoke, bodies, blood, and water.
The best writing about sex ideally mirrors the act, in turn causing readers to be turned on, sweaty, contemplative, and ultimately liberated.
"When it's just us and the baby, it feels very quiet and contemplative — the house feels like it holds you," Schulman says.
That is also why in most cases I will include a contemplative silhouette; like putting myself (or the viewer) inside the landscapes.
There were tasteful bronze sculptures of naked women here and there, and a path around a placid lake built for contemplative strolls.
Again, a contemplative day, although on an entirely different level altogether: How you commemorate it is entirely up to you, of course.
What is strange is that many Angelenos I talked to echoed this view of interstate gridlock as a kind of contemplative lacuna.
Periodically working out of the office enables you to try working from a quiet and contemplative space in which creativity may grow.
"It took an investment of time and in the relationship to accumulate the moments and make these contemplative photographs," Mr. Furticella said.
It was not, as they say, unbearably sad; on the contrary, it was bearably sad—a tranquil, contemplative, lapping kind of sorrow.
The score ends on a suitably contemplative note, returning briefly to the quietude of the first section before fading into the ether.
Her options narrow as the book becomes more crime-centric and throws her into life-or-death situations rather than contemplative ones.
Mr. Reuther hoped the union would train future generations of leaders in the contemplative setting far from the toil of assembly lines.
The Irishman has both the frenetic swagger of Scorsese's mob movies and the more contemplative gut wrench of his most spiritual films.
"You can say you're world champions of swamp soccer," said Matti Paulavaara, 222, one of the team members, after a contemplative pause.
"There was such a thing as a contemplative museum, but I don't think that can survive anymore," he told Newsweek in 1978.
Charley seems both contemplative and happy when Remy walks in and asks if he can take her out on a date that night.
We hoped to build a counterweight to Thought Catalog's trendy digital brand with a more contemplative spin-off brand as a book publisher.
I have done a lot of contemplative sitting and asking some fairly difficult questions of myself regarding my motivations as a solo performer.
Daniel, meanwhile, is an artist, and his best contemplative moments involve sketching what he sees, whether it's his bedroom or a lush park.
The Night Of, with its solemn, contemplative moments, is in such stark contrast to the fast talking, minutiae-focused dramas like The Wire.
Glam music was played in discotheques where people danced at the shows, whereas the previous stage in rock music was much more contemplative.
The former senator also hit Republicans, as she does regularly, and showed a more contemplative side, something she displayed Wednesday in Burlington, Iowa.
Redemption is a dark, powerful and contemplative record traversing Letta's mind as he reflects on what he's been through and what he's gained.
The "God Is a Woman" performer, 25, dropped a contemplative new music video for her song "Breathin" from her Sweetener album on Wednesday.
Roy DeCarava's black and white photos have a contemplative stillness about them, even as the energy of the city swirls around his subjects.
A Mortician's Tale is a contemplative video game in which players embalm and cremate bodies, and attend to the funerals of the dead.
Krotona Institute of Theosophy has an occult library worth poking around, especially for the chance to read and get contemplative in its garden.
It might have made more logical sense, in the interest of contemplative looking, to have had the chairs face inward toward the art.
I grew up in Shimla, also in the Himalayas, and always thought I would return one day to live a silent, contemplative life.
I'm very prayerful and contemplative about each post because I'm mindful of the fact that I am addressing the next generation of leaders.
In the context of Lush, "Let's Find an Out" is a quiet, contemplative moment, set off against some of the more bombastic tracks.
I am a daily meditator, and like Merton, I find a close connection between the contemplative aspects of the Catholic tradition and Buddhism.
His recent message, however, focused on contemplative sisters — those who are called to dedicate their lives to God by praying and being quiet.
He helped found Contemplative Outreach, a network of people who practice centering prayer, in 1984 and was its president from 1985 to 1999.
Churchman, 22012, is known for their contemplative, detailed explorations of a broad array of themes relating to memory, pop culture and art history.
Fittingly, the lineup that year included the contemplative French films "Le Pont du Nord" from Jacques Rivette, and "Beau-Père" from Bertrand Blier.
In a huge portrait by the Australian painter Ralph Heimans, she stands on the spot of her coronation in the abbey, looking contemplative.
Behind his pipe, he's a man who is quick to laugh but likes to play devil's advocate, all while maintaining a contemplative air.
The school is hoping to include them in a contemplative space where their contributions are recognized along with details about their slave ownership.
In photos, she appears calm and contemplative, so I thought it fun to play on her stoicism by making a really fun GIF.
The end result is a fascinating mix of contemplative ambience and childlike wonder, building up to the intensifying polyrhythms at its thunderous climax.
According to Herzog, the curator and artist Hilla Rebay ensured that both Bach and Beethoven played in the space, creating a contemplative atmosphere.
Readers who are fans of Bruno Schulz and Jorge Luis Borges will like this contemplative novel about a narrator whose mother has dementia.
A scene can take weeks of labor, and as with many efforts that demand solitary focus, the task lends itself to contemplative moods.
It's the end of the road, or perhaps the i of the Jeremy Bearimy, for Mike Schur's quirky, contemplative comedy about the afterlife.
So Mr. Mee's contemplative monologues, performed by Kim Ima as she pilots an inflatable raft across the pool, are something of a relief.
Even when Ms. Reid takes leave of the melodic cell for a contemplative solo, a memory of the earlier groove inhabits her sound.
This is the argument David Forbes, a professor of contemplative education at Brooklyn College, makes in his new book Mindfulness and Its Discontents.
I soon discovered that Library Science was a great fit for my strengths, allowing me to be tech-savvy, contemplative, organized, creative, and innovative.
" The key achievement of middle age, according to Jaques, is to move beyond youthful idealism to what he called "contemplative pessimism" and "constructive resignation.
A contemplative Ms Bezos noted that "we each come by the gifts we have to offer by…lucky breaks we can never fully understand."
Delicate rainbows are clearest in the faces of two of his most contemplative portraits, those of Vollard and of the "Woman with a Cafétière".
The loss of clarity, the submersion, the writhing attempt at escape of the oozing Christ figures in all of them marks their contemplative power.
AND FINALLY Slow roll It's easy to take a slow, contemplative stroll through town when you're walking your giant pet tortoise through the streets.
But such solutions interfere with the function of a museum: allowing members of the public to immerse themselves in beauty in a contemplative setting.
However, the ballerina depicted on the Kiehl's metal tin appears sexier and sassier than the modest and contemplative 45-foot version across the way.
Maren Morris, Eric Church and the Brothers Osborne delivered a tender rendition of Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" to a silent and contemplative crowd.
These simple words paint a vivid picture of teenage romance, as a potential lover sits, contemplative and anxious, on the corner of a bed.
The title of Jackie Sibblies Drury's stylishly contemplative new play, which opened on Wednesday night at the Abrons Arts Center, is unadorned by punctuation.
The Mortal Kombat crowd is a more contemplative and quiet group, ironically not in keeping with the in-your-face aesthetic of the game.
All of this power in feeling is packed into a quiet, contemplative track showing that Saul Williams is as important an artist as ever.
Eliasson's Versailles encompasses three installations in the gardens and six inside the palace, created after the artist made several contemplative trips to the site.
And while that contemplative mood gave her some calm and joy, it also unearthed emotions Shriver felt had long since passed or been processed.
I also learned that some of the musical decisions I've made that represent a contemplative or lethargic emotion translates to horror to these children.
Between 1438 and 1443, the Dominican painter Fra Angelico painted a series of contemplative frescoes in the friar's cells that are considered Renaissance masterpieces.
If you listen closely enough, all of Mr. Rouse — contemplative elegy, rowdy playfulness, eclectic homage — is in this score, masterfully orchestrated and transparently rendered.
It is a contemplative, multilayered body of work — timeless shadows recording the passage of time photographed over images of a cathedral 10 centuries old.
The young, contemplative soul singer Khalid brings the temperate side out of the D.J.-producer Marshmello, who can be frenetic, but here is soothing.
This Champagne made like a geyser when we popped the cork, causing a brief moment of panic in an otherwise contemplative and tranquil tasting.
Kacey Musgraves, who has already released an excellent Christmas album (A Very Kacey Christmas), covers "All Is Found" with characteristically quiet, contemplative fragility; Panic!
It influenced tons of creators to create similar games that combine intimate and realistic theming with quiet, contemplative, and self-consciously non-violent play.
Francis Ford Coppola's contemplative and confounding Vietnam War adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" has transfixed audiences since its original release in 1979.
Similarly, a piece following her around for BBC4 shows a mild-mannered, contemplative Poly gently navigating the London streets and getting ready for shows.
If the movie starred anyone else, I can't help but think it'd be an almost-forgotten swing at Tarkovsky-style slow, contemplative science fiction.
"Find Me," the lead single from Ocean & Montana, is both a powerful reflection on the recent past and a contemplative prayer for the future.
Dig beneath the topsoil of "this supposedly hard-headed country", advises Zwagerman, and you hit a contradictory layer of "contemplative arch-romantics" and "reserved iconoclasts".
Here, Time photographer Ruddy Roye takes a more contemplative approach through portraiture and firsthand accounts that build a robust picture of the events that transpired.
The desire to create and implement Indigenous and new technologies, social and behavioral innovations, contemplative practice, and policy tools for addressing society's most pressing issues.
"The building houses a convent, a place for deep contemplative study, so there's a feeling of calm seriousness that pervades the site," Kashuo Bennett says.
It's a quiet, contemplative film, which will no doubt frustrate viewers who are used to more dynamic and plot-driven takes on these particular themes.
But again, everyone has self-esteem issues, so part of me doesn't want to get surgery… I'm contemplative about that, but otherwise I'm pretty happy.
Then, this morning, I found myself back in the upper latitudes of North America while watching the contemplative Netflix thriller Hold the Dark, out Friday.
In that Kupka was an avid reader of mystical and contemplative material, it is legitimate to see an image of the artist himself in it.
But I realized (after the second glass of contemplative wine) that when people asked me about past relationships, these weren't the partners I thought of.
But it applies in particular to former FBI Director James Comey, who's made a habit of posting contemplative photos of himself while standing in nature.
There's occasionally churning percussion, but even those moments feel contemplative; he has a knack for making movement feel internal, a meditative sort of dance music.
"It was supposed to be very relaxing and very contemplative," Martin says over the phone from his new home in the mountains of central California.
It is a clear contemplative illustration of America, rooting the souls of black and white folks in a kind of historical and present day blend.
There is a standard rosary, a contemplative, and thematic rosary, which will be updated periodically.. The app shows progress, and keeps track of prayer history.
Yet pieces like this one can have a surface sameness, which was the one downside of a program that mostly emphasized Ms. Saariaho's contemplative side.
Muttered Persian lines from the text were woven into the restless music, though, even here, the piece over all had a self-contained, contemplative character.
Far from the confrontational vibe of his anti-Trump tirade at the BET Awards last month, "Walk on Water" is a contemplative, introspective piano ballad.
There are also shoddily watermarked, fan-made photos of Vin looking contemplative, flexing his muscles and giving shockingly earnest takes on the struggles of life.
Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk and a pioneer in the worldwide Christian contemplative prayer movement, died on Thursday at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass.
At times, Ms. Barton's "Indomitable Waltz," which she described in a program interview as an "intimate exploration of the soul," had a somber, contemplative approach.
Mr. Turner's colleagues in the Navy were given to describe him as contemplative and intellectually curious — whether the subject was military affairs, philosophy or opera.
This is a serious, high-minded film, but it's also a somber one whose quiet spots too often feel not contemplative or fraught, but enervated.
Rather, the idea — as explained in ancient Buddhist texts — is that a calm, contemplative mind can help you see the world as it really is.
This 244 Czech rarity, based on a novel by (who else) Stanislaw Lem, presents space travel as a contemplative affair punctuated by swinging cocktail dances.
With an art educator, the families discuss a painting or sculpture with a salient theme, and the contemplative nature of the space is a balm.
The virtuoso playfulness she lacks is shown by Christine Shevchenko in the second cast, but she in turn lacks (as yet) authority and contemplative tranquillity.
Afterward, he was in a contemplative, even somber mood, bemoaning — as he often does — that "nothing is good enough" in modern soccer's frenzied, hyperbolic landscape.
All of a sudden, it's no longer a movie about how war is bad, but one pitting Contemplative Timothée Chalamet against Sneering Dandy Robert Pattinson.
Directed by Francis Lawrence, the film "mixes dread and suspense with contemplative, almost pastoral moods," A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times.
Last week marked the 35th anniversary of Pierre Trudeau's "walk in the snow," a contemplative stroll during which he decided to resign as prime minister.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads If the function of architecture is to create contemplative spaces, then the theater has become a place for ghosts.
Constantly testing the limits of both her abilities and imagination, she manages to create paintings that are simultaneously contemplative and riveting and yet avoid becoming formulaic.
Slower and more contemplative, Harakiri opens on Tsugumo Hanshiro, a ronin (masterless samurai), as he arrives at the palace of the feudal lord in 1630 Japan.
Platforms TBD Hello Games' next game looks like the polar opposite of No Man's Sky: a short, quiet, contemplative experience with a strong story to tell.
A stirring, quiet, contemplative, and understated film about a man with a heart condition who is given the runaround by the government dole and benefits scheme.
The South Bend, Indiana, mayor struck a similar contemplative tone as he delivered remarks at a wreath-laying at a baseball park in downtown South Bend.
Alison Raju, author of an English-language guide to the Via Francigena, said she believes that anyone who walks with real contemplative intent should feel welcome.
Peter Hutton, an experimental filmmaker noted for his contemplative, sensuous, masterfully photographed portraits of landscapes and cities, died on Saturday in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 218.
The Contemplative Court gives visitors an opportunity to collect their thoughts on everything they've seen and experienced before moving on to the more upbeat galleries above.
Most of the strings that can be chosen from are more abstract than concrete, and as a result the messages pieced together by NierDeathExperience are contemplative.
She makes them sound contemporary and newly contemplative; she understates the dimensions that can seem religiose or portentous; she shows both wry humor and deep poignancy.
At the event, many tables were outfitted with Purell, and there was a sense that people were being a bit more contemplative about contact and hygiene.
It reproduces his 1970 crayon drawing "Window, Grand Hotel, Vittel," and in the context of the festival, it feels like a contemplative moment from French cinema.
The themes at hand are faith, violence and compassion, and Bartosik illustrates them through a mixture of extreme trembling, ecstatic dancing and moments of contemplative stillness.
Puzzles have been "a thing" for about a year now, riding the trendy wave of other low-tech, contemplative activities like coloring books and bullet journaling.
But the narrative is elegantly structured rather than clotted, and its tone is contemplative as opposed to frantic, as if he had turned down the volume.
So there is little that's calm or reflective about this show, nothing that feels as if it were made in slow time, at a contemplative pace.
Toby Fox's Undertale, to choose a delightful recent example, abounds with tunelets; whether cheerful, contemplative, mischievous, majestic, or adorable, the melodies burble with playful, baroque intricacy.
"Growing up in Canada and being in the West, nobody really knew about K-pop unless they were Korean," he says, his expressive eyes growing contemplative.
With contemplative, earnest standouts like "Boomerang" and the hypnotic "Falsas Promesas," the album soars above contemporaneous efforts this calendar year from the genre's cookie-cutter hitmakers.
There are long, contemplative shots of everyday tableaux suddenly rendered so tender and precious you'll find yourself sobbing over a 10-second camera pan of wainscoting.
MONDAY PUZZLE — We welcome Sean Biggins to the New York Times Crossword roster, and he offers us a contemplative puzzle, fitting for this day of observance.
Mr. Paley Ellison and Mr. Campbell, who goes by Chodo, are Zen Buddhist monks and the founders of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.
But he became more withdrawn and contemplative, even questioning whether he could father a child and be responsible for bringing a new life into this world.
Sounds of fluttering prayer flags, chants, and the wind in Mustang, Nepal, will soon join this contemplative space, thanks to an installation by the Soundwalk Collective.
It is in the rough texture of the pulp paintings of Phenomenal Space that we see a more contemplative and personal understanding of the natural world.
It gives a clear sense of what the film genuinely accomplishes, albeit suggesting more heart-pounding action than you'll find in the film's more contemplative tone.
According to the filmmakers, Burden became more interested in science and engineering during the latter part of his career, but the profound, contemplative aspects always remained.
With this background governing her formal choices, DeSousa is free to focus on content, and here is where her focused explorations take a profoundly contemplative turn.
It's easy to see the duality in him, though, because when he isn't cackling about smoking his own pubes, he's contemplative and chooses his words carefully.
Somber, contemplative, quietly impassioned: "Swimming in Dark Waters — Other Voices of the American Experience" brought a concert of protest songs to the Appel Room on Wednesday evening.
So I get back on the phone, once more, this time to speak with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.
It's an inspiring and contemplative place to be, and I spend hours there, listening to the sounds of nature coming from the mountains and fields around me.
On Friday, as Trump Jr., spoke about how the family would not do fresh business in India as long as his father was president, Chordia seemed contemplative.
"Come See About Me" is a much softer and contemplative song compared to the rest of the album, and arguably the rest of all of Minaj's albums.
While I'd rather this show maintain its contemplative air and not always tease the audience with questionable endings, this one genuinely feels on pace with the season.
That being said, materially, my practice is in contrast to the contemplative fashion just stated — I just need my easel and a canvas to produce my language.
For instance, in a landmark study published two years ago, neuroscientists trained people in "loving kindness" meditation, a contemplative practice focusing on building people's care for others.
Season 2 Episode 4, "First Date" is a sweet but contemplative portrait of modern dating, directed by Eric Wareheim who plays Dev's (Aziz Ansari) best friend Arnold.
"Glowed Up" was released as a single this week, and it pivots from a viscous late-night thumper into something brighter and more contemplative after three minutes. .
His second but first (and arguably only) consistent album, Take Care, introduced Drake as the figure we know today: crestfallen, contemplative, alone in a life of luxury.
The parade takes place the next day, preceding a more contemplative period on the third day, when the boys visit relatives' homes to pray for their families.
Long, contemplative compositions — usually mediated by the thin slats of a bamboo shade — are accompanied by ambient street noise or one side of the filmmaker's phone conversations.
The contemplative atmosphere of the yard would not be the same if not for the gates and the fences that delineate a barrier between town and gown.
And as has been Sumney's way since his brand of contemplative soul first hit in 2013, this song curls around your body like smoke, thick with emotion.
Running through each of his releases is a root connecting back to that log cabin, or at the least the contemplative and spacious backdrop where it resides.
Whether traversing or defying genres, Mitchell's catalog is connected by the essential spirit—contemplative, cool, vivid, sensual, funny, frustrated, honest—she delivered to each, obvious and unmistakable.
The album ranges in mood from contemplative to combative, and you'll only need a second or two to determine where the title track falls on that scale.
The accessibility of the prints in Commonwealth, on both a commercial and a semiotic level, contrasts with the more cerebral and contemplative work in DNA of Water.
Asked after the game about the fans' change of tune, Osorio took the same contemplative view, the same philosophical detachment, that has carried him to this point.
Equally impressive is the adjoining cloister, where Gothic frescoes believed to have been painted in the 14th and 15th centuries adorn Romanesque colonnades around a contemplative garden.
Dr. William Van Gordon, associate professor in contemplative psychology at the University of Derby, suggests an alternative to the long, drawn-out battle with the snooze button.
Some are cutting, accusatory ("In two months, you replaced us / Like it was easy") while others are mature, contemplative ("I saw the signs and I ignored them").
The song is contemplative, well paced, free of pyrotechnics — so comfortable in its alignment that you never sense that each person is moving in his own direction.
"In their different ways, (the shortlisted) novels all depict the collision of richly contemplative beings with the rapidly changing outer world," the jury said in a statement.
Veteran South African producer, Portable, has shared the contemplative, dispirited video for "Say It's Going To Change," the first official single off his forthcoming Alan Abrahams album.
Its atmosphere is comparatively down-to-earth — there's no red carpet at the opera house — but also, by design, the programming is more contemplative than star-struck.
Fall is also a great time to reflect on the nation's past — or, at least, the long march toward winter always puts us in a contemplative mood.
I get the sense he's not hiding because he faces me when we talk, and the look on his face tends to move between contemplative and friendly.
But the fast-paced, painfully honest, stressfully contemplative movie, co-directed with Ben Nabors and the late Hillman Curtis, will trigger rushes of insight, empathy and voyeuristic pleasure.
He's transported from his bed to the pastel-washed wonders of San Francisco's west side, where he goes on a contemplative and smooth journey down the city's streets.
Last year, the American born and Brussels-based musician Christina Vantzou released her lush and contemplative double-LP N°3 on the long-running electronic music label Kranky.
As a whole, though—as a record of so many people who have lived in a place and then gone from it—a cemetery becomes something more contemplative.
The result was a strange and complex collage of sounds; Jay-Z's bars became contemplative and uplifting, while The Beatles' melodies became warped, spiky, and full of grit.
When Adam and Rebekah Neumann's five kids ran wild during quiet and contemplative Torah readings, another member said, members were told there was nothing that could be done.
Visually arresting and replete with contemplative moments, Columbus spotlights the eponymous Indiana town, notable for being the birthplace of Mike Pence and an unexpected haven for modernist architecture.
A mindful, contemplative approach to internalized racism and sexism is a necessary piece of the puzzle of dismantling systems of oppression, Awaken founder and CEO Ravi Mishra says.
They seem an unlikely pairing—one a superstar of high-adrenaline EDM, the other a poet of contemplative hip-hop—but that dynamic only works in their favor.
Her youngest son, Nello, more contemplative, devoted himself to historical studies that marked the stark contrast between the idealism of the Risorgimento and the brutality of Mussolini's regime.
Candles glow from recesses in the walls of this elegant, clean-lined set — a classically contemplative monument to democracy, and the shell for Mr. Nelson's memorial to Socrates.
If you visit this Lower East Side museum over the next few months, don't be surprised to see birds overhead or contemplative-looking cats sitting on the floor.
This delicate, contemplative and thoroughly gorgeous musical, first seen last winter at the Atlantic Theater Company, does not represent, as some say, Mr. Yazbek's unlikeliest disguise to date.
Since then he has cut a winding path while retaining a focused, contemplative, noirish sound on the alto saxophone, and has become a mentor to countless younger musicians.
J.C. Haux makes contemplative trip-soul, and this lovely and absorbing song — with its sweet and coy male-female duet chorus — moves with urgency but never feels hurried.
On the face of it, this violin-and-piano duo looks unlikely: Mr. Kavakos is serious, contemplative; Ms. Wang, more renowned for rhythmic funk and hair-raising virtuosity.
How extraordinarily beautiful and rare, I thought, drifting somewhere between a renewed spatial awareness and a feeling of displacement, for one artist to invite such intense contemplative lingering.
Ryan's nuanced, contemplative works replicate the condensed syntax and sudden insights associated with poetry, as earth-toned color bands meet bright, irregular forms that generate a visual correlate.
Of the many rappers who in recent years have experienced explosive popularity while facing horrific criminal allegations, none is as contemplative or introspective an artist as Kodak Black.
And it's not just the artists who are breaking into the comedy scene — many comedians are taking their cues from the more contemplative, multi-shaded aspects of art.
Ted Danson sure seems to be having a blast on "The Good Place": He swings wildly from depraved mastermind to dunce to contemplative egghead with nuance and panache.
Bowie's death on January 10 set off tidal waves of grief all over the world, and gave new context to Lazarus, his contemplative final album and stage play.
There's a whole ecosystem of journalists and book publishers who are getting crushed in this new economy and it's their words that are necessary to be contemplative human beings.
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is a contemplative arrangement shrouded in a feeling of unknowing, much like the feelings of those who saw Lady Liberty as a new and uncertain beginning.
And I think the brilliance behind that impact of energy he would bring was because in his time off, he was someone who was contemplative and an observational genius.
It's a worldview, and it's a pathogen: It can be covered up and it can be ignored, but it can't — without major substantive, contemplative, and personal work — be controlled.
With Blond(e), his highly anticipated third solo album, he doubles down on the type of music he is most interested in making: quiet, contemplative, singular, and ultimately unclassifiable.
Perhaps neither, as he opens his eyes with a contemplative look on his face as the camera pans away to the rest of his room as the video ends.
It's a contemplative story about isolation and the relationships between people, and it's game that's been anticipated for some time due in large part to the team behind it.
It creates a lot of atmosphere in his work, and that's exactly the kind of contemplative space that we wanted people to live in while they were watching this.
Chance the Rapper contributes a long, goofy, felt, contemplative verse, after which the choir comes back louder and grander than ever, bringing everything to a suitably sweeping, epic finale.
Similarly contemplative, "Insularsaunteringsnowsatbay" (1979) is a tall, rectangular painting in which pale tonalities of green, blue, and violet modulate so subtly that it seems impossible to register them all.
On exiting the historical galleries, visitors are invited to sit in a contemplative space with a circular waterfall streaming down from the ceiling, natural light peeking through from above.
Aaron Goldstein's shouty lyrics, which cover topics ranging from consumerism to discontent with traditional post-graduation career paths, coalesce in a listening experience that is intellectually invigorating and contemplative.
Some probe the duality of the soul in the context of mobsters and angry men; some juxtapose the sacred and profane; some are contemplative masterpieces that explore spiritual realities.
In 1971, after the Second Vatican Council, at which Pope Paul VI encouraged priests and religious scholars to renew the Christian contemplative tradition, Father Keating was invited to Rome.
You can see bright sparks, though, of the mature dramatist in the making, as well as flashes of the trenchant wit and contemplative melancholy that would become his signature.
They can vary from the more familiar bright, lively wines, which exude citrus and minerality, to more contemplative, powerful, expensive wines, which need a decade or more of aging.
Mr. Christensen found himself in an unusual position: as a contemplative, combative, agitated and weary witness whose testimony was pivotal to both sides — and a victim of collateral damage.
It includes a procrastinator's guide to spectating, for instance, alongside a contemplative essay on what it's like to be one among millions swallowed by the moon's umbra at once.
He's a middle-man, a legendary go-between, and Norman Reedus' contemplative acting style works to push Sam into the background even in scenes where he's the main character.
" Though the show had plenty of contemplative, heavy moments, the most delightful came late in the ceremony when Glenn Close won her latest best-actress trophy for "The Wife.
In the contemplative and ambient "Sad Alron," a camera pans over an otherworldly landscape narrated by languorous chords emanating from keyboards like the dulcet tones of a Buddhist's bell.
Rating Simply put, Hap and Leonard hits a nice sweet spot between the contemplative character drama Sundance is known for and the tawdrier crime dramas TV does so well.
Buy Now Shake Shack: Recipes & Stories, $26 Like perfect pizza slices and contemplative walks across the Brooklyn Bridge, Shake Shack was once a treat that only New Yorkers could experience.
In this magical place, people celebrate the contemplative beauty of a perpetual calendar complication, and happily pay five or six figures for mechanical timepieces that don't actually keep time accurately.
A contemplative love letter that Jackie Kennedy wrote to John F. Kennedy — a clue to one of the most talked-about marriages of the 20th century — is up for auction.
Whether taking contemplative breaks at the behest of your smartphone, or using it to assist you in getting a good night's sleep has tangible benefits has some experts are skeptical.
Ruminant flew across my radar like a bat out of hell, and sucked me in immediately with their furious crusty, death-speckled grind, contemplative dark hardcore passages, and nasty breakdowns.
"That's a very good question," said Fromme, who wears her blonde hair cut short and has the calm, contemplative nature of someone more used to lab work than courtroom drama.
Akerman's fixed, contemplative frames exalt the treasures of intimate experience and folklore that largely vanished with the murder of European Jewry but that survive, in fragments, in these women's memories.
The discussion will conclude with a look at a contemplative scene from "Hamlet," in which the prince comes face to face with the smelly skull of Yorick, a court jester.
And "Hungry," a work in which nothing much happens beyond some contemplative pre-dinner chatter, may well be the most resonantly topical and emotionally engaging play of this election year.
And it was during this contemplative moment that I gleaned a little piece of advice from an unlikely source: David Carr, the former media columnist here, who died last year.
Both characters experienced a kind of contemplative, lesson-filled life, but the player's assumed past is one of education about how to live in the world and make it better.
We've already heard the driving, dystopian first single "Utopia," and the rest of the record is built for both dancefloors and headphones, with galvanizing, minimalist beats and contemplative, piercing lyrics.
"There's a fine line between what you did to get up there, and then you come down the other side," said Harrington, still one of the game's more contemplative minds.
If the aim was to create a contemplative mood, the music had the reverse effect on me: I kept getting impatient, wondering when some shift or turn might be coming.
Where some artists work with paint brush and palette, Ms. Lekberg often wielded a blowtorch, welding steel, bronze and other materials into works featuring dancers, trees, contemplative figures and more.
The big grab here, though, is HAIM's downtempo, contemplative rendition of "If It Will Be Your Will," a Leonard Cohen tune based on a saying that accompanies many Jewish prayers.
Coming out of several massive games recently, including Pillars of Eternity 2, I can't help but feel relieved to play a game that wants to deliver a short, contemplative, quiet experience.
While you may think these works should be observed under the spell of a mellow, contemplative track, true art fans would do well to use music to enter the artist's mind.
The album package, made by Seoul-based design firm HuskyFox (Co-Founder and Creative Director Lee Doohee will receive the Grammy if they win), echoes the LP's somber and contemplative mood.
There's inspiration everywhere — from incredibly vivid street art to my own contemplative moments — and I constantly want to pull out my iPhone or portable camera just to take a simple video.
Throughout these illustrations and the rest in the exhibition, each character is overwhelmingly sad or contemplative; there is no joy, even for an instant, to be had in Koch's unnamed game.
After years of being immersed in the punishing intensity of television production, he was trying to recalibrate, and would go on long contemplative walks while listening to audiobooks on human consciousness.
It sounds like an amalgamation between the rawness of the early Skrapz is Back-era with the production sheen and contemplative interludes of 80s Baby and The End of the Beginning.
The site resists the 24-hour news cycle: It collates these narratives and creates a contemplative space in which to see these events together, as an ongoing catalogue of settler violence.
Excerpts from the recently rediscovered conversation form the core of a new documentary, "Ben-Gurion, Epilogue," in which the Zionist luminary offers a raw, contemplative self-analysis of his life's work.
Her new clip for "Recite Remorse" follows much in the same vein, with an oddly Kate Bush-esque Crutchfield seen amidst an ethereal-seeming light show, performing the contemplative track alone.
After a serious health scare last summer, Eller returned to a more contemplative passion that he discovered decades ago, working on pottery at his studio in a warehouse in northeast Minneapolis.
"Astral Plane" is "Adventure Time" at its most contemplative, as Finn finds himself floating outside of his body one night and spends his waking dream thinking about the meaning of life.
Stark wooden furniture accompanied by collections of egg shells, smooth rocks, feathers, bones, and ceramic vessels, attest to a contemplative life and flow seamlessly into the presentation of hanging diaphanous sculptures.
The exhibition's 11 artists, working in media ranging from painting to performance, explore the theme in a host of different ways that are by turns gut-wrenching, contemplative, quaint, and funny.
You don't have a ton of time to make these kinds of [slow and contemplative] movies, and invariably, you are putting your trust in the director, editor, writer, whoever it is.
This traveling series takes its name from both the spaces where it hosts its concerts — churches — and what it presents: "modern contemplative and devotional music," according to its Facebook-stated mission.
The studio is making a claim that porn can be diverse, experimental, emotionally contemplative, and grapple with complex questions of power and social relations—while still delivering hot, balls-deep sex.
There's a good chance that while you're enjoying one those nice contemplative moments, or even doing something simple like checking your map, another player is sneaking up behind you for the kill.
For example, the breezy and contemplative new age-leaning instrumental "Waimanolo Drive" or "Marcel Was Here," which sounds like a wild reinterpretation of a celebratory piece of music from Super Mario Bros.
Indeed the studiolo, with its hodgepodges and focus on contemplative individuality seems to represent the antithesis of the modern, inspired workspace with its emphasis on worker interchangeability and buzzy, almost entropic collaboration.
Unlike previous trailers for the upcoming Season 6 premiere, this one is less contemplative and launches right into the action, narrated in part by fan favorite Tyrion Lannister (played by Peter Dinklage).
Where both of those shooters strive to distill combat into its sexiest form—a sizzle reel of explosions and drama pulled straight from any blockbuster war movie—Squad feels contemplative and slow.
These Missing Dose paintings, such as the hauntingly named "Untitled (Insomnia, Opioid Addiction)" (25), are doorways into a contemplative world of self-assessment, in which what is missing becomes what is meaningful.
The performance was perfect, as the lyrics seemed to reflect Mr. Batiste's inherent optimism, while his contemplative execution communicated the musician's awareness of social inequity that permeated the Armstrong era and beyond.
The story couldn't be simpler, and the opera deepens not through the complexity of the plot, but from the emotional weight of living with these characters in a kind of contemplative stillness.
The aesthetic variety, breadth of stories told, and moving — occasionally inspirational — themes presented make "The Pencil Is a Key" feel much larger than it is, deserving of a slow and contemplative visit.
"I've gotten to know him through this process, and he is an incredibly interesting, articulate, smart, contemplative individual," David Samson, the Marlins' president, told reporters in Miami on Saturday, referring to Jeter.
But if you don't want to read on, know that Ad Astra is beautiful, contemplative, and loaded with meaning — not an action movie, but one that leaves you with plenty to ponder.
It's a decision that makes sense in the context of Jenkins's oeuvre, a collection of jazz-inflected, contemplative songs on hip-hop's experimental side, though more approachable than most of Heron's work.
The track is a slow and contemplative in an almost lounge-y style, and sees the artist formerly known as Archy Marshall talk-singing over a meandering instrumental, as is right and good.
Fourteen of these contemplative calligraphic abstracts, ranging in date from 1967 to 210, were released for sale by the artist, who is now 220, and all have sold for between $22013,24 and $2000,22016.
But here there is another kind of persistence — one in which the relation is static and the work shifts from producing an effect of anxiety in its audience to one of contemplative awareness.
The delightfully romantic yet contemplative rumination on millennial friendship and romance from Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang returns for a second season with Dev (Ansari) in Italy and eventually back in New York.
And the 2017 Sundance Film Festival has its share of obviously religiously oriented films, including not one, but two about nuns — the transgressive comedy The Little Hours and the more contemplative drama Novitiate.
"The best discoveries always seem to be made in the small hours of the morning, when most people are asleep, where there are no disturbances and the mind becomes most contemplative," he said.
It organizes retreats for rabbis, cantors, educators and ordinary congregants interested in enhancing their religious life with contemplative Eastern practices like meditation, yoga and mindfulness, as well as reimagined concepts from within Judaism.
Buddy, 24, both sings and raps — he's strongest when he inflects his singing with some of the shape of his rapping — and on most of this album, he is a contemplative, empathetic narrator.
But it's on the more soulful and contemplative tracks where Bennett's personality starts to emerge as something more adult: "My shoulders got broader, my music got smarter," Bennett raps on the intro track.
This painting among the many others here illustrate what has always been enticing to me about Color Field work: its measured pacing of a visual experience that invites the viewer to be contemplative.
Soft-spoken and contemplative, he considers himself a environmentalist and though he worries about antibiotic resistance, he puts his faith in the E.P.A. and its determination that the risks of spraying are minimal.
The occasion determines not the precise bottle we choose but the level of wine, which can range from easy, pleasurable and inexpensive to profound, contemplative and financially challenging, with many steps in between.
In contemplative ballads or springy, danceable tunes, her music was transparent: an electric oud shared her melodies, a hand drum supplied the beat, and virtually the only harmonies came from a backup singer.
The seemingly pleasant and contemplative "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is filled with shuddering intimations of mortality, with the woods that are famously "lovely, dark and deep" hinting at self-annihilation.
I've been happy that so far, Westworld's second season has felt much more stable, narratively speaking, with its twists feeling far more well-earned and contemplative than they did in the first round.
" Pantone's official definition of the color describes it as "complex and contemplative, Ultra Violet suggests the mysteries of the cosmos, the intrigue of what lies ahead, and the discoveries beyond where we are now.
It does so in a fascinating way that juxtaposes mainstream Hollywood entertainment with first-person accounts of individuals whose stories stand in for millions of others, thereby inviting the viewer into a contemplative space.
But the actress and comedian is also a deeply contemplative seeker, a woman unafraid to share her frailties, breakdowns and breakthroughs — at least not with Refinery29's Christene Barberich in this week's UnStyled podcast.
As the genre seems to be reeling back to a more traditional and contemplative place (see Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson) after its pop and hip hop phases pass by, so, too, is Jelly Roll.
Even with its unstable tone oscillating from contemplative to nearly campy, the chorus of the many voices of Oaxaca — expats, tourists and locals alike — creates a siren song that keeps you turning the pages.
It's such an evocative idea of pure creative play, and I liked balancing it with the more contemplative POOHSTICKS — very different visions of childhood and philosophies of life, each lovely in their own ways.
She's contemplative on spots like "KD Diary" and "Feel Something," but other times, she's downright hubristic, as on "Cheap Shit," where a pair of $303 boots don't cost enough for her high-end taste.
In a document released last week, which focused on women's contemplative life, he warns nuns that social media could "become occasions for wasting time" or be used as an escape from their religious duties.
In 2007, Koshin Paley Ellison and Robert Chodo Campbell founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, a nonprofit in Chelsea that offers meditation training and study programs for medical professionals and caregivers.
Rabbi Cowan was a leader in helping couples navigate the shoals of mixed marriage, injecting contemplative practices like meditation and mindfulness into religious life, and designing "healing services" to comfort the sick and dying.
It was the first marathon I trained for alone, but that was what I needed at the time: I was living with roommates, and I relished the solo, contemplative time that running gave me.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he brought this poignant and hushed lyricism to bear on a series of vibrantly contemplative paintings, many densely packed with compressed, circular figurations reminiscent of indigenous Australian dot paintings.
At the end of the "Nicomachean Ethics," Aristotle sees the promise of philosophy as the cultivation of the contemplative life, the bios theoretikos that would be the equal to the life of the gods.
" Over the phone recently from Los Angeles, the producer and songwriter explained how he ended up going to Chicago for a few weeks, which resulted in two songs, "Angels" and the contemplative, melodic "Same Drugs.
Those intimate trial-and-error sessions, joining his penchant for poetry and new gift for spitting, have molded him into the contemplative artist he is now, with the help of regular producers Pip and Jachary.
So Ms. Lévy seeks to stand out, providing a complete art experience within the confines of her booth, combining the contemplative nature of a literary salon with the competitiveness of, say, a couture sample sale.
"He's a very contemplative, thoughtful and diligent judge — no-nonsense in his demeanor," said Michael Farkas, the president of the Kings County Criminal Bar Association, which is honoring Justice Chun at a gala on Saturday.
LONDON — David Bennett, the usually jovial worldwide chairman of international jewelry at Sotheby's, was in a contemplative mood as he picked at a plate of red mullet over lunch on a muggy Tuesday in June.
The groom, 25, conducts contemplative-neuropsychology research in the department of pain management and research at Oslo University Hospital, where he is a consultant and developer of meditation-based therapy practices to treat chronic pain.
This contemplative, slowly building series returns for its fourth and final season to find Daniel Holden (Aden Young) released from prison after 19 years and still uncertain about whether he killed his high school girlfriend.
The work has not been installed in a contemplative, tranquil nook like so many pieces in the nearby, walled-in sculpture garden of the Noguchi Museum, which has managed to remain invisible for decades now.
WASHINGTON — James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, emerged from seclusion in recent days, appearing pensive and contemplative on a rural Iowa road and in a cornfield, based on photographs posted on his Twitter account.
The range of personalities of the portraits — from contemplative ("PD-12," 1929) to jovial ("PH-752," 1924), in a variety of styles and media — demonstrates that Still was not a slave to any particular aesthetic.
To get into the proper contemplative frame of mind, you would need to spend a month walking the Camino de Santiago across Spain, the same journey — a famous Catholic pilgrimage — that its principal subject takes.
Yet when Wenger spoke with reporters an hour or so later, he seemed so uncertain, so contemplative, his voice so thick with emotion, that it was impossible not to wonder if, perhaps, he was wavering.
" The all-day performance, per the official description, is a celebratory and contemplative engagement with the shifting dynamics of darkness and light: "As the day unfolds, the theater gradually transitions into four distinct scenic landscapes.
On July 6, she not only released the video for her contemplative new single "Praying," but also announced that it's the first song for an upcoming album, Rainbow, which will be released on August 11.
A day later, the singer released a contemplative music video for her song "Breathin" from Sweetener and gave fans a look inside her battle with anxiety while also showing off some new tattoos behind her ear.
"There are two distinct sides to this album… there's the Wilder side, which is all about love and flirtation and desire, and the Woods side, which is more contemplative and introspective," said the father of two.
Failing companies' requests for a sudden and immediate override of that decision entirely circumvents a contemplative, fact-gathering process that exists for a reason: keeping politics out of the equation and protecting the market's operating ability.
He narrates the novel in the same way, delivering the story in contemplative and starchy prose, sounding not only like the academic he now is but also like a man seemingly from another time and place.
It was clear to me where things were going, but Father Zogby liked to say that the first step in the contemplative life was letting go of preconceptions and expectations—so I pushed my suspicions aside.
She watches, excluded and contemplative, as the other performers play flirtatious, courtship-minded games of musical chairs and blind man's bluff, and sobs into a handkerchief looking at projections of casualty statistics from the Civil War.
Last month, Robyn released "Honey," which tells a different story than her gleaming "Body Talk" albums in 2010 — by turns patient and contemplative, with a chronological arc that ends with what feels like an earned exuberance.
The contemplative drama depicts Ms. Harding (Leah Raidt) as a brash young woman who, money-starved and working-class, competes in homemade outfits (not in Vera Wang, like Ms. Kerrigan), while trapped in a troubled marriage.
Then there's the whydunit, in which a humane, contemplative sleuth (best exemplified by Simenon's Maigret) wants to understand how desperate emotions drove the culprit (and might well drive many of us) to commit such an act.
Languid and contemplative — the first season covered a mere seven days — it follows Daniel Holden (Aden Young) as he returns to the stifling confines of his rural Georgia hometown after 19 years of death-row solitude.
JON PARELES The first new song in two decades from the early-1990s shoegaze band Ride — dissolved in 1996, reunited to tour in 2015 — is pugnacious rather than contemplative, aimed at the current state of politics.
The past decade has seen a rise in singer-songwriter albums that in theory sound like electronic pop music while turning inward toward a sparer, more contemplative formalism, as incarnated by Lorde and Carly Rae Jepsen.
Others are obscure, such as the contemplative 1965 columbarium by Kiyonori Kikutake in Kurume, Japan, with concrete walls that seems to hover above the floor of the funerary space, and the Lari House in Karachi, Pakistan.
The Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome is a contemplative exhibition that winds through the grand and intimate spaces of the Manhattan cathedral, where the tapestries mingle with the church's tomb effigies and stained glass.
As Neu explains, the initiative tries to cover a whole spectrum of methods of contemplative practices — that includes breathing, mindfulness, positive thinking, and exercise like yoga — rather than just one, which she says makes DeStress Monday unique.
You bring your body to a space and you stand in front of pictures and things with other people, and this adds up to a publicly contemplative opportunity that can have the qualities of richness and depth.
Blackall's ocean is variously placid, rippling, luminescent, angry, violent, frozen, gray, green, cerulean, black; her waters surge and recede, but her red and white lighthouse and its bearded, contemplative keeper remain stolid and constant — until they don't.
Over the weekend, I snuck out to see Atomic Blonde, the new Charlize Theron-helmed, cold war spy thriller—which, by the way, I expected to be a lot more action heavy and a lot less contemplative.
They're meant to keep you warm when the air starts to get colder, and make you just the slightest bit contemplative as you transition from the full-on fun of summer to the cozier lifestyle of winter.
In May, Slushii self-released his debut album Brain Freeze, which showed a more contemplative side; standouts like "Make Me Feel" featured spacey beats and Scanlan's own pitch-shifted singing, landing closer to Flume than Flux Pavilion.
"To be able to be present in those low moments and to be engaged with women who are very contemplative and thinking about what they want to do with their lives was an amazing opportunity," she said.
It's his biggest look to date, and he doesn't disappoint—Jaegen has a knack for blending sad and sweet elements, and here he expertly undercuts the drums' hip-swiveling thrust with soft pads and contemplative filter sweeps.
In our quietest, most contemplative moments—perhaps when we wake from our sleep during the middle of the night, or during a lone, early morning walk—there are universal human questions that naturally come into our minds.
Isabelle Fuhrman (who starred in Ms. Schmidt's 2017 "All the Fine Boys") puts a studious teen's spin on her contemplative Macbeth, while an irrepressible mischief lurks within Ismenia Mendes's wonderful Lady Macbeth, toggling between passion and playfulness.
These activities can feel like chores, but they also nudge players into a more contemplative style of play, forcing them to slow down and explore their surroundings, scrounging for supplies instead of running toward the next objective.
On Thursday, standing beneath a buffalo head mounted on the wall of his office, Mr. Brownback was by turns contemplative, jovial and emotional as he announced that his time as governor would be coming to an end.
Mr. Gilbert chose two nicely complementary works for the first half of the program, which opened with another kind of urban portrait: Copland's contemplative "Quiet City," scored for English horn (Grace Shryock), trumpet (Christopher Martin) and strings.
Ocean's free to strip the original of its sensuality and energy, to turn it into a contemplative, desperate and uncomfortable plea without having to worry that a guest will take up any of the space in the spotlight.
The untitled song is a contemplative one that touches on topics ranging from the passage of time to how his celebrity has changed his life, and white passivity in the face of social justice issues which require action.
"Beneath the Mask" puts me into a contemplative state, and that's true whether I'm staring idly out of a train window in real life or if I'm virtually idling around a cafe late at night in the game.
Father Thomas Keating, a founding member of Contemplative Outreach, says in the film, "Antidepressants don't reach the depth of what these men are feeling," that they did something terribly wrong and don't know if they can be forgiven.
"Megyn Kelly Presents" will be quite a departure from her regular prime-time show: Say goodbye to the talking heads and rapid-fire cuts, and cue a gauzier look, with two comfortable chairs and a contemplative head nod.
But there are also quieter, more contemplative elements, such as a whispering chapel of folded ceramic flags, and the beguiling, witty, eccentric, fairytale vault of scores of crowns, appearing near the end as a heavenly promise of attainment.
But Clinton managed to pull the conversation her way Monday in Cleveland when she kicked off her general election campaign with a more somber and contemplative speech than she had planned to give in the critical battleground state.
It's also a contemplative space, where visitors can reflect on and honor the 168 people who died in the April 1995 bombing, carried out by a white power terrorist with ties to a network of like-minded extremists.
However, the sheer scale and volume of works at times feels slightly overloaded (wooden cubes in almost every room) and perhaps this would have been benefited from editing out works to allow for a more contemplative viewing experience.
Not to get all contemplative in a story you likely clicked on for some frivolous (yet festive) entertainment, but doesn't the holiday card seem like a tradition that might not be a thing anymore, in five or 10 years?
Some of them are more inward and contemplative, and what I like to call "rainy-day," and some are more outward and social and looking for connection with the outside world, which to me speaks of sunlight and leadership.
On May 20th, in another seemingly subversive pronouncement, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, who doubles as Benedict's secretary and the head of Francis's household, said the papacy was in fact dual, with an active member (Francis) and a contemplative one (Benedict).
It's natural to feel edgy, but do not lose heart, for in this desolate week can also come a golden oasis filled with sun, sand, many contemplative photos of the ocean, and at least one obligatory trip to Disneyland.
Foer's other concession to nostalgia, in the form of an inoffensive command to return to the "sustaining nourishment of the contemplative life and the deep commitment to text," is overshadowed by a vigorous and novel call for regulatory intervention.
His name is Henry Lehman, or it will be before he's through Customs, and he is embodied by Mr. Beale, arguably the greatest classical actor of the present-day London stage, with a heart-stirring air of contemplative awe.
Adding to the VR experience is a soundtrack by Treasures of Devotion: Spiritual Songs in Northern Europe 1500-1540, which are monk-like chants that fit well with the subject matter, but also The Met Cloisters' contemplative exhibition space.
Since Mr. Frahm's breakthrough album, "Felt," was released in 2011, he has become the face of a new breed of musicians who combine elements of electronic dance and classical music to produce a new, more contemplative kind of pop.
The result has both the frenetic swagger of Scorsese's mob movies and the more contemplative gut wrench of his most spiritual films, like 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ and his most recent earlier release, 2016's Silence.
I've asked a lot of developers what it feels like to finish a game, and it's often a mixture of emotions, many of them somber and contemplative, as the past meets the present, and the future is suddenly uncertain.
All that Buddhist, contemplative nonattachment was easier to buy into with the elderly; with Sloan, it was hard to feel as if you were helping someone transition through a cosmic crescendo at the end of a life well lived.
The heart of the exhibition is the intriguing film "Isolated Above, Connected Down" (all works 2018), which starts off with dreamy views of white clouds and blue skies, as if to instill a contemplative state of mind in viewers.
To make sure voters are in a properly contemplative mood at their polling places on Election Day, the state bans T-shirts, hats and buttons that express even general political views, like support for gun rights or labor unions.
Entering the exhibition, one immediately sees the 2100-inch-long, four-panel painting, "Color 21.6" (22007), which is covered entirely by azurite blue, one of the most expensive and popular Nihonga pigments, a color that supposedly generates a contemplative aura.
The contemplative, piano-powered ballad doesn't sound anything past Kesha hits like "Tik Tok" and "We R Who We R"; it's slower and showcases Kesha's powerful vocals as opposed to the rap-sung hybrid she often used earlier in her career.
Cinematic domestic scenes, contemplative characters, and a soothing color palette help evoke a sense of nostalgia, an element that certainly relates to the artist's personal investment in the project as his ancestors lived near Kazimierz around the time period portrayed.
Rob Bissinger and Anita La Scala's scenic design, at least, keeps it simple, with a desk and chair, high-top table, and long vertical panels bathed in shifting light to match the mood: cool, contemplative blues to bright, confrontational yellows.
DETROIT — In a contemplative, sober defense of his record as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg stopped short during Tuesday night's presidential debate of detailing his new agenda to address historical and systemic barriers to equality for black Americans.
The self-titled album contains a few standout tracks: the "Blackbird"-like acoustic "Sweet Creature," the raucous "Kiwi," and its final song, "From the Dining Table," which is so quiet and contemplative it sounds like a poppier take on Iron & Wine.
Still, in the same way that the peach scene from Call Me By Your Name dominated that moving, beautiful film's press tour, it seems almost unfortunate that Disobedience has gained notoriety for something that stands almost separate from this contemplative film.
UNDER POWDER-BLUE Peloponnesian skies, amid the olive groves and cypress trees where zealous athletes once competed for glory, Manfred Weber, a centre-right Bavarian politician, raises a hand to touch one of the ancient columns of Nemea, affecting contemplative wisdom.
DiCicco's tenure wasn't perfect, but the contemplative coach showed an ability to acknowledge mistakes, such as when he publicly noted that he should have gone to a four-back lineup during the 1995 World Cup, in which the U.S. finished third.
When the music finally started, at noon, it was piano ruminations by Bing & Ruth, near the edge of a cliff overlooking the basin, followed by clean, contemplative techno tones by Christopher Willits in the amphitheater — palate cleansers after a raucous meal.
It's not entirely Ms. Lipman's fault if her keenly felt understatement gives seniority the upper hand, given that her great-granddaughter, Rosie, is overexcitably played by Serena Manteghi: the idea that youth might also have its contemplative aspects doesn't figure here.
Lee, who has wondered publicly about "my own violent nature" and "the nature of violent male behavior," is a searching poet of fathers and sons, alert to how domestic space warps around contemplative men and whatever latent rage their silence veils.
Dr. Paley Ellison, co-editor of the new book "Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care," lives on the Upper West Side with Mr. Campbell, who is also his husband, and two Maine coon cats.
He was inspired, he said, by a request from Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who asked him to take insights from contemplative practice out of their religious context and use them to develop strategies to help improve people's lives.
The interplay between darkly contemplative music, as in the piercing "To everything there is a season" opening movement, and quixotic episodes, like the spirited "…and a time to dance and to laugh…," is so deftly handled you hang on every shift.
He then turned to a contemplative selection from Messiaen's "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus" and the music's mystical, tart beauties provided a welcome contrast — that is, until the piece broke into ecstatic wildness, exhilaratingly played by the tireless Mr. Trifonov.
The Washington Post's 12th-story penthouse became my refuge for the month — a quiet, contemplative space with a skyline view where I could catch up on a podcast or do some pen-on-paper editing while digging into my homemade lunches.
Still, here was one culture helping to refresh another, offering a precious new practice while helping to rekindle awareness of Christianity's own contemplative dimension — from the Desert Fathers and Mothers of the third century to Meister Eckhart a thousand years later.
The brain trust that consists of Future, DJ Esco, and Metro Boomin elected to go with a more contemplative feel to the album, choosing more pensive sounds than the higher energy and more deliberate beats that have largely become his signature.
Earlier this year, MUNCHIES spoke with a contemplative Sebastien Bras about his new restaurant on Japan's isolated Hokkaido island, and he already seemed far more interested in the finer points of milk, gardening, and his family than he did with the restaurant guide.
Terence Hannum—the Baltimore based musician and visual artist—may be best known as one-third of the experimental metal contortionists in Locrian, but his work outside that band over the last few years has offered a steady stream more quiet, contemplative pleasures.
I have marveled at the brilliance of a show that takes "he said/she said" to a new level (a very sexy one at that), and emerged from hours of binge-watching in what I can only describe as a contemplative stupor.
The movie is quiet and contemplative, and its American release (which had been very successful for other movies from the film's studio, Studio Ghibli) had been thwarted by the fact that a major plot point deals with the protagonist learning about menstruation.
The three-track record finds the resident DJ and talent buyer for the acclaimed Smart Bar venue hitting a different register with each cut—where the lead, title track is for the most part restrained and contemplative, "Foist" is psychedelic and disorienting.
They're in two different genres — The Discovery plays more like sci-fi, while A Ghost Story is a nearly experimental fable — but they both take a curiously similar tack in their treatment of the topic and its implications, and both with contemplative sensibilities.
PARELES "Where Angels Fear to Tread," one of a pair of new songs by Disclosure, is jovial and contemplative, juxtaposing the wonky strut of a house-music beat against an impossibly smooth extended sample of the 1950s vocal jazz outfit the Four Freshmen.
RUSSONELLO Social distancing made this year's St. Patrick's Day a deeply subdued one, but here's a lovely contemplative postscript from Eileen Ivers, the Irish-American fiddler who has won multiple All-Ireland fiddle championships and was a founding member of Cherish the Ladies.
That they would eventually identify as part of the white oppressor class that dehumanized others is one of many paradoxes explored by Huang — a professor of English and the author of a book about Charlie Chan — in this contemplative yet engrossing volume.
During these stretches, though, on the huge screen behind him, he was often shown in full, his hunched figure taking up almost the whole view — a man in contemplative pose, a man curling into himself for protection, a man trapped in a box.
This is not consolation as we normally know or seek it — "Night of Fire" is a coldly contemplative book rather than a comforting one — but it is an interesting idea for fiction, which normally depends so heavily on the notion of individual consciousness.
"What we offer is a contemplative world where the patient goes on a guided tour, in interactive mode, to play music, do a bit of painting or work out a riddle," said Reda Khouadra, one of the 24-year-olds behind the project.
If hyper-popular museums like MoMA have been described as shopping malls — commercial, crowded, loud, impersonal and the opposite of contemplative — then here, paradoxically, was a retailing emporium with art thrown in, and where viewing that art seemed a rather more welcoming and pleasant experience.
It's when she steps away from the lightness of the scenes to hint at their darker histories — the reasons for her separation from her family's lifestyle, the sexual trauma of her past — that the memoir becomes a more contemplative look at religion and belief.
Starting with New Zealand's cheerful celebrations and spectacular firework displays in the breathtaking Sydney Harbour, East Asia was ushering in a New Year with song and dance in its public squares, millions of revelers in its streets and contemplative moments in its temples of warship.
Pageant is a massive feast of Bruce's and Hopkins's guts, carefully arranged as anthemic tell-offs, swampy and contemplative tear-jerkers, grungy breakup masterpieces and all-out ragers about gender, body image, confidence, love and growing up as twentysomethings who feel like they're still teenagers.
In a lot of ways the entire exhibition has a lot of molecular ideas that create a larger landscape, and you're right about that idea that that piece is much quieter and more contemplative than other installations I've made that have a higher velocity.
Beginning in the 1980s, as interest in contemplative music surged and sales of recordings of Mr. Rautavaara's increasingly tonal and luscious music climbed into the hundreds of thousands, many thought they heard echoes of the brooding Nordic soundscapes of Sibelius in Mr. Rautavaara's symphonies.
Mr. Foye said there was nothing inappropriate about the presence of the cross in a public park, because St. Nicholas was destroyed in the attack, because construction costs were being met privately and because the shrine would include contemplative space for the general public.
Curated by Kathleen Ash Milby (Diné) and David Garneau (Métis), this exhibition presents 10 installations by 10 artists that use movement to demonstrate how Native American traditions of storytelling, dance, and communing with the land can offer reflective and contemplative experiences when paired with technology.
Borne of the surveillance age, "Internet Landscapes" is more contemplative and less punchline-driven than Roth's earlier net-art hijinks, a zoomed-out, skeptical investigation of what this former architect calls "the medium that made me want to be an artist in the first place."
In particular my kids lingered over the page that shows the civil rights leader as a contemplative young girl on a path in a grove, cradling a book; early readers are mesmerized by stories about larger-than-life heroes pictured at their own size.
I wanted to find the quiet, contemplative Los Angeles, the hidden pockets of reverence, reflection, silence; places Angelenos repair to in order to recharge their batteries so that they are ready to face another day, another traffic jam, another screaming child, another vindictive boss.
Stuart J. Thompson, a Tony Award-winning producer and manager of Broadway shows who brought a contemplative, low-key style to an industry known for its razzmatazz, and helped mount hits like "The Book of Mormon," died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan.
On the other hand, if you stand in certain spaces on the floor, such as in front of a portrait or an interesting sculpture, your character will go through the motions of making the same contemplative, appreciative gestures and expressions that the AI characters perform.
Near the end, a contemplative SZA, out smoking on some steps, is visited by the titular Barrymore (we presume she's the 'perfect girl' SZA compares herself to throughout the insular track), and we're left to ponder: is she a mirage or the real thing?
Sometimes the tension between tradition and transgression is an explicit theme: in the contemplative "Milkman," a straitlaced mother and a rebellious daughter envy each other; the daughter wishes the mother had "loved the milkman" and enjoyed her life, while resonant guitar picking radiantly fills the space.
But in The Name of God is Mercy, Tornielli turns from the world's fixation on Francis and his famed displeasure with the ravages of capitalism, and renders a far more contemplative, theologically sensitive picture of the Argentinian priest who now leads the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
The show uses music both to bring its characters together, like in Season 4's "Here Comes A Thought," and to isolate them in contemplative moments, as in Season 3's "It's Over Isn't It," and its genres span from smooth jazz to metal to Broadway.
Unfortunately, voters were left with a surreal spectacle of a discussion on race that never mentioned Black Lives Matter and found a candidate who has inspired white hate groups and questioned the citizenship of the nation's first black President waxing contemplative about the mistreatment of African-Americans.
The imagery of a man in an eternal battle for his soul, combined with his application of autotune and usage of the right cadences and flows to convey his emotions, have led to some of the most haunting and contemplative songs of the century so far.
Drenched in layers of post-punk, goth rock, new wave, and every other blistering signifier for brooding, contemplative indie rock, Happy Ending—which Noisey is premiering today—attempts to laugh at the pain and re-possess a struggle taken from them by late capitalism's grubby little paws.
When Ghetts delivered the opening line, "She's got a front row seat to her son going to sleep for eternity," as images of young men faded on the screen behind him, I could feel those around me recalibrate from a party mood to a contemplative one.
Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón's quiet, contemplative, deeply personal film, based on the experiences of the woman who worked for his family and raised him in Mexico City and set during a time of social unrest, has already received plaudits from critics' groups all over North America.
Boomer mothers and Gen-X teens and 20-somethings paid $29.95 for makeovers and photography sessions defined by big hair, white satin gloves, heavy eye shadow and contemplative poses, in an era when pictures were taken for special occasions and not just to commemorate every brunch.
Ms. Israeli, who facilitated the conversation at one table, met the women who started the Lower East Side group while they were all training as volunteer caregivers at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, which takes a Buddhist approach to the end of life.
It also serves the storytelling well, for if it's true, as is said in "The Loss of Muzaffar," that "humanity, after all, was nothing but a library," then the experience of reading this collection is like watching a contemplative, concerned — yet playful — observer leafing through its volumes.
Letters To the Editor: Re "An Evangelical Fights to Make California Red" (front page, May 28): As a contemplative Christian and a progressive, I'm saddened and chagrined to read of Franklin Graham's stand against California's "blue wall" and to think of him as the voice of Christianity.
Earlier, at the store, Mr. Zegna turned contemplative regarding the first time he met Mr. Sartori, when he was a man of 38 and his protégé was 27, and about what it means to have him back in the fold at this stage in the game.
For an Evening With Friends You'll probably not want to venture out with the family to this dark thriller, but if you're looking for a movie that will appeal to you and your friends, this film — part pulpy thriller and part contemplative drama — will be of interest.
Here, The New York Times's chief theater critic, Ben Brantley, looks at new non-holiday plays in New York this month, including a high-energy dark comedy about a girls' soccer team and a contemplative drama about a family awaiting the results of this year's presidential election.
This alienating psychosocial development, sometimes known as "reification," conditions the members of a society to be docile and contemplative once they have conceptualized their existence in terms of a commodity, functioning passively and moving "automatically," one more object in the capitalist sphere of everyday production and exchange.
Those familiar with the New York-based German artist's startlingly visceral work, such as pigskin heads or scenes of dead animals caught in oil and tar, may be surprised at the quiet nature of Icons in Ash, which are more contemplative in their consideration of death.
Mr. Takahata's other films include "Only Yesterday" (1991), a contemplative tale of a woman who reminisces about her past on a trip to the countryside, and "Pom Poko" (33), an environmentalist fantasy about shapeshifting raccoon-like animals called Tanuki that struggle to maintain their lifestyle against encroaching suburbs.
Taking those same qualities and stripping them back to their bare, contemplative bones—like a sweeter sounding Phil Elevrum—Silberman's debut album Impermanence (which comes out today) documents his experience with a hearing impairment that led him to leave Brooklyn for a secluded setting in upstate New York.
"Deadwood: The Movie" brings back most of the cast of the series, which includes Ian McShane as the hard-drinking saloon owner Al Swearengen and Timothy Olyphant as the darkly contemplative Sheriff Seth Bullock, but moves the action a decade later, with the town of Deadwood inching toward modernity.
It doesn't seem at all unreasonable to say that the roster of acts on show would likely never come together in any other context—that is to say, Simple Things is a unique proposition in just how seamlessly it melds contemplative, boundary-pushing with actual, taps-aff hedonism.
In the weightless reading by the violinist Johnny Gandelsman, the violist William Frampton and the vocal ensemble Choral Chameleon, the music unfolded in contemplative beauty, with the juxtaposition of the instruments' throaty individuality and the even-tempered coolness of the voices creating just enough tension to sustain interest.
His wife found him in the tub shortly after he'd completed a version of a much reworked chapter called "Breaths of a Summer Day," in which Ulrich and his sister, Agathe, in a state of contemplative enchantment, watch blossoms drift "like snow through sunshine" in his Viennese garden.
The audience in pews sat in almost complete darkness; the players were illuminated by theatrical lighting, so you had to give yourself over to this contemplative program, even when you could not read the translations of texts, even if you lost track of what piece was being played.
It has deep, contemplative blues that are more vibrant that typically used in this kind of maritime scene and has a vibrancy to the warm, caregiving lights that guide the boats, ships and cars on the distant bridge, all of them being guided toward where they need to go.
If you were looking for the old Chance, you won't find him here One of the most compelling things about Chance as a rapper is the elasticity of his voice: he can do tongue-tied and dense, soft and contemplative, a weightless smirk, a snappy yalp, or a conversational murmur.
Sebastian Vazhakala, the co-founder with Mother Teresa of Missionaries of Charity-Contemplative Brothers, sought a place to live in Rome in 1979, he moved to a run-down area — just off what was once the ancient Roman road of Via Praenestina — populated by roughly 8,000 living in improvised shacks.
"[Doe and her representatives] proposed two quotes that the university could not accept, as they were not consistent with a contemplative space and the intention of a place where members of our community could seek solace," EJ Miranda, the senior director of Stanford's media relations office, told Broadly over email.
The public areas are divided by an atrium with a retractable glass ceiling; Toogood turned the area beneath into a contemplative place for morning coffee by staggering five floating plaster shelves on the wall, each topped with a bonsai, with hopes that Atalla would tend to them for years to come.
The work is alternately contemplative and gritty, Mr. Jalbert said from the stage, "reflective of the time we currently live in," but it ends in utter serenity, in a movement headed "Soulful, mysterious," with the first violinist bowing a bell and the other players bowing their instruments in a fading pianissimo.
Like other men of his social set— Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Fairfield Osborn, a president of the American Museum of Natural History , to name two—Grant adored nature, which to his milieu meant the North American continent, minus its original native population and reconstituted as a hunting preserve and contemplative retreat for themselves.
What Larry Kramer's trenchant play (and subsequent film) The Normal Heart did for the early days of AIDS activism in 1980s New York at the height of the crisis, Robin Campillo in 120 Beats Per Minute aims to do for the same subject in 1990s Paris, albeit in a more contemplative style.
Feminist.), Rehumanize International ("Working to make aggressive violence a thing of the past through education, discourse, and action"), the Sisters of Life (a contemplative order dedicated to the "protection and enhancement of the sacredness of every human life" and providing ongoing support for mothers) and my own organization, Women Speak for Themselves (Empowering.Local.Voices).
Over its last two albums, 2012's An Ache for the Distance and 2014's The Old Believer, the Chicago five-piece has seemed bent on transforming itself from its early days of doom and sludge into an outfit focused on pushing the outer limits of atmospheric, psychedelic, and contemplative styles of metal.
No wonder the New Hollywood princes — Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg — embraced Kurosawa as their master: He was employing a propulsive rhythm and impulse to entertain more in keeping with Hollywood films, far removed from the contemplative, transcendental style that had been the hallmark of Japanese cinema.
Framed photos of Ivanka adorn the walls: There's one where's she's sitting at a desk with her son; in another she is alone looking contemplative and steely, her legs up on a conference table; then one that came from a magazine shoot, Ivanka on a ladder overlooking the city dressed up in red gown.
She already won us (and The New York Times) over with her incisive songwriting and hair-trigger-dynamic voice on last year's contemplative debut EP Strange Darling, but it's the top-down ferocity of her live shows—think big guitars and bigger wails—in the time since that's had us eagerly awaiting new material.
In the song "Everything Is Floating" she speaks plainly about the experience of seeing her life's work reduced to junk: "how beautiful, how magic, and how catastrophic", she says, delivering the line with a kind of contemplative stillness that wouldn't be misplaced on a meditation tape (which isn't surprising––Anderson is also a practising Buddhist).
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Spilling ink onto paper, moving it around by tilting the sheet, drawing it out with the nub of the pen, brushing the quill's feather across the surface, mixing it with graphite, blotting with cloth, dabbling with fingers — Hugo created a contemplative poetics of abstraction startling in its originality.
When it comes to The Bachelor, there are a few certainties: There's a girl who is not there to make friends, there will be several shots of the Bachelor standing on the edge of a cliff, looking contemplative and, of course, there will be the one contestant who boozes a bit harder than the rest on night one.
HOLY, HOLY reads the embroidery on the altar, underneath a stained-glass window of a contemplative Christ, while Smith sits in the far left of the image, in overalls, his chin resting on his hand, a pose that is somewhere between reflection, prayer, and perhaps dejection—it's a sad and lonely photograph, but with that essential touch of hope.

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