contemplative
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definition
noun
Asked why, the rabbi responded: ‘How many of your bishops are contemplatives ?’
a person whose life is devoted primarily to prayer, especially in a monastery or convent.
adjective
she regarded me with a contemplative eye
expressing or involving prolonged thought.
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But people were also 'contemplative' and prayerful.
People walk the labyrinth slowly, as an aid to 'contemplative' prayer and reflection, as a spiritual exercise, or as a form of pilgrimage.
And I suppose the biggest and strongest desire I have is this one of being a 'contemplative' with a capital C.
Then some of them are very 'contemplative' and introspective.
The film also implicitly questions the validity of a contemporary academic that fails to incorporate political activism in favour of a purely aesthetic or 'contemplative' mode of being.
At other points, the poetry of ideas is brought together with a more natural landscape to create 'contemplative' opportunities of the type usually associated with ancient temples and monuments.
Then follows his more recent photographic work that expresses his 'contemplative' enjoyment of the quiet landscapes unrolling between the Great Lakes and the East Coast.
It is such a fixture in our collective consciousness, it seems either much older or much younger, but certainly not the ordinary, pedestrian, 'contemplative' age of 50.
What Evans has provided, however, is a well-written and masterful introduction to this great monastic 'contemplative' and doctor of the church.
He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a 'contemplative' and spend the rest of his life in the monastery.
The long, dreamy, 'contemplative' takes of classic Hollywood studio movies or postwar European art films are long gone.
Vergil is a kind of 'contemplative' who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day.
The quest for personal mastery requires some form of meditation or 'contemplative' prayer because ‘it is helpful in working more productively with the subconscious mind’.
On the other hand, the dynamic panoramic views reflect his 'contemplative' sense of analysis and recognition of space, timing and content.
We are now fully in the domain of 'contemplative' prayer.
His air is 'contemplative' and dreamy in both self-portraits.
It has been argued that the current interest in 'contemplative' prayer is a middle-class luxury for those who wish to experience some kind of spiritual frisson.
One would have liked a better balance throughout the album, as it slows dangerously on the latter half and misplaces its original rock intentions while it pursues a more 'contemplative' attitude.
He says he's trying to ‘create a 'contemplative' space’ in a city that has been overtaken by advertising and commerce, in a culture that is becoming less free and more mediated.
I can't really put my finger on it, but I have realised that it is seriously underplayed in my life, and definitely merits more frequent airings, especially when I want to be 'contemplative' .
The natural beauty of the Park is ideal for 'contemplative' life, as monks and nuns of earlier centuries found before us.
We must take it at face value for there is no torment beyond the exuberant grins, coy smirks or 'contemplative' musings of any of the grandmothers.
And he was for 14 years a member of a 'contemplative' religious order so his values are all in the right place.
In lieu of more thoughtful and 'contemplative' reflections, I'll just present my top 5 panels.
To my mind, the essential difference between philosophy and religion is in the religious type of 'contemplative' act, the observer is within it, not outside it.
It can stimulate religions to excavate the 'contemplative' and meditative paths in their own heritages, such as the Jewish meditation movement and Christian centering prayer.
Then, in her middle seventies, she stopped, resolving to use the years she had left to pursue God through the solitary practice of 'contemplative' prayer.
I can tell you he's read thousands of pages, and met with a lot of different people who have very strong views, and he's been very 'contemplative' how he's considered this issue.
But either way, it's a warm, gently humid, 'contemplative' space, air filled with the gurgle of small waterfalls, flowing over the regular patterns of concrete steps, into pools sprouting with fern and reed.
As a member of a 'contemplative' religious order spending time in silence is nothing strange to me, and is something I look forward to.
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