Although most of my friend's books were kept on the second floor of her house, this felt like a library because it was a deeply contemplative site, a site of learning and of concentration.

Each man seemed stunned - deeply contemplative, as it were, and, not quite sure, trying to realize just what had taken place.

"This wife you have," Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, "did you pay a great deal for her?"

He sang with a grainy tone, virtually no vibrato and remarkable control and finesse, and his improvisations had a deeply contemplative aura.

About 1,300 such poems have survived, and have been described by H.S. Shiva Prakash as lyrical, satirical, deeply contemplative and self-critical.

His skillful, intricate and deeply literary poetry...is urgent and deeply contemplative.

Satisfying even on the level of gamesmanship, with the film maker reaching new heights of mischievous color-coding, "Red" is bolstered by a more deeply contemplative side.

Their prose was so exact and pure and their expression of faith so serene and deeply contemplative that some critics compared them favorably to Pascal's "Pensees."

A deeply contemplative look came over him, and he lay back in his chair, hands linked behind his neck, staring fixedly at Murtagh.

Mr. Kipniss's deeply contemplative, tender landscapes are rendered in muted tones of gray, black, brown and blue, contrasting sharply with the turmoil that the hurricane wrought.