We rode in sombre, ruminative silence for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
He gazed out into the night, ruminative, speculative. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Hantaï's programming reinforced the ruminative vibe. From Wordnik.com. [Authentication keys] Reference
Then, taking a slow, ruminative mouthful of his wine, he spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Purchased For Revenge]
She gazed steadily at the glowing coals, ruminative, reflective. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
But "Champlain's Dream" is as ruminative as it is action-filled. From Wordnik.com. [A Forgotten Explorateur] Reference
It seems doubly odd because Knight is a ruminative kind of pundit. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket fails the cool test even with disco umpires and crick-babes] Reference
Tyler is perky and quirky, but Ford's invincibly real and ruminative. From Wordnik.com. [Seems Like Old Times] Reference
Ox-carts moving towards the fields proceeded with a ruminative rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
His imitative works are built on unusually angular and ruminative themes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Brett surveyed the privileged classes on the hearth-rug with a ruminative eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Craig snorted, but he was relieved when the man fell into a ruminative silence. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Hunt]
Much human depression is cognitively generated by dejecting ruminative thought. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Efficacy - Albert Bandura] Reference
Esther saw the doctor give his friend a slow ruminative glance before inquiring. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Jake Silver was emitting a ruminative humming sound as he searched for my quarry. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
Her voice became half-absent-minded, ruminative, as though she were thinking aloud. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
It seems as though Byers's ruminative temperament eclipses the natural drama of his story. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Byers's ÂPercival's Planet, reviewed by Ron Charles] Reference
They waited expectantly while he directed a ruminative yawn toward the white smiling moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
And the ruminative elevator carried to the street level the best satisfied man in New York. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
In a ruminative way, as I sit in my slippers by the fire, I wish I had been to the Gobi desert. From Wordnik.com. [David Attenborough: 'I have been in a vehicle that was charged by a rhinoceros, and that was tiresome'] Reference
The usually silent ruminative old man was positively loquacious, and John gave him a rapt attention. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
I merely thought it was an eloquent example of the ruminative thought process that defines depression. From Wordnik.com. [Jonah Lehrer: A Malcolm Gladwell for the Mind : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
Powell people referred to the defense secretary's ruminative intellectualism as "The Aspin University.". From Wordnik.com. [Clinton's Growing Pains] Reference
But Truth and Justice will remain for as long as Mankind has a ruminative mind and a living conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Naguib Mahfouz - Nobel Lecture] Reference
It was written as a generous, sympathetic and ruminative appraisal of how we adapt nature to cultural purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Bayley: Sisters, Unhook!] Reference
She glanced at his round, innocuous face, with the downy mustache and ruminative eyes, and smiled irrepressibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
The two friends sat silently for some minutes in ruminative mood, till Grey, turning suddenly to Tomes, asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Much of The Lay of the Land is made up of passages like this, passages which are not narrative so much as ruminative. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
ON A THURSDAY MORNING in early May, I fell into the ruminative routine I'd been honing since I had returned from Texas. From Wordnik.com. [Hi-Ya!] Reference
The films are wildly different -- "" The Thin Red Line '' is lush and ruminative, "" Hurlyburly '' adrenalized and brittle. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Guy Talking] Reference
When the old man got that ponderously ruminative look on his face, one never knew how much he was taking in and thinking about. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent's Shadow]
Mindfulness can keep our attention focused on the task at hand rather than absorbed in a ruminative process that undermines us. From Wordnik.com. [Mindfulness and task persistence: Not all self-awareness is a good thing] Reference
It would have seemed ruminative, the stare, had his eyes been softer or had he blinked; as it was, his face was set and trance-like. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 22] Reference
By day, the city of Reykjavik, Iceland is quiet, almost ruminative, going about its business with a dutiful and elegant sense of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Megan Pillow: Live from Reykjavik, Part II: An Insider��s Look At Iceland Airwaves 2006] Reference
The music's intensity belies a slowly unfolding structure that, at points, veers into gently ruminative playing and even pleasing melody. From Wordnik.com. [Two Avant-Gardists Join Artistic Forces] Reference
I can promise that the sight of raggedy, ruminative feral ponies in the adjacent Assateague Island State Park is nothing short of magical. From Wordnik.com. [Stefan Beck: Excrabaganza: A Crab Quest on the Atlantic Coast] Reference
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