You're right about the world needing the self-contemplation of writers. From Wordnik.com. [Narcissus and Me] Reference
Moreover, many of their magic spells are "actually narcissistic rites of self-contemplation.". From Wordnik.com. [Bothered and Bewildered] Reference
But after such a remarkable outing, Nabokov allowed himself about 15 seconds of self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
"When faced with solitude and self-contemplation, man is also faced with that which he fears most ... himself.". From Wordnik.com. [thecalicojew Diary Entry] Reference
Shouldn't most of the people on Twitter have outgrown the emotional gratification of self-contemplation by now?. From Wordnik.com. [Twittering: A sign of mental illness?] Reference
On the other hand, a good book or a serious conversation would induce such men to peaceful self-contemplation and meditation. From Wordnik.com. [Commandant of Auschwitz]
I read the other day that of the two most widespread modern sins, 'narcissism' self-contemplation, self-absorption is the first. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Some philosophers, to be sure, have undertaken to prove that reason, by dint of self-contemplation, might arrive at the knowledge of all things. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
But the Vice President has outlasted even his boss in staying tough and resisting any possibility of doubt or silly, hippy navel-gazing self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Bronstein: Bush and Cheney Mosey Off Into the Sunset, Cowboys Till the End] Reference
They are victims of an intense self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
Like if I have too much time for self-contemplation?. From Wordnik.com. [IzzyMom] Reference
All work is modest, all idle self-contemplation is vain. From Wordnik.com. [The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little] Reference
Sickness is full of self, but health has no self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. Volume Third.] Reference
These words are written under no prompting of idle self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
There is to be no complacent self-contemplation, beruminating upon self. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
It is my diseased self-contemplation that has engendered and nourished him. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent] Reference
Then, as a means of further advancement, one must cultivate self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The half truth, resulting from its being the effect of self-contemplation, makes it more dangerous. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference
Happiness is not found in self-contemplation; it is perceived only when it is reflected from another. '. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
Pathologies linked to authority and domination have ceded to the limitless angst of self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
And now Priscilla, weary of her play and self-contemplation, turned about and took a chair opposite Farwell. From Wordnik.com. [The Place Beyond the Winds] Reference
They indulged themselves in no remote visions, in no restless imaginations, in no exciting self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. Volume the Second.] Reference
Like all old and great nations, she was indulging in the pleasing, but dangerous, enjoyment of self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Rover] Reference
He knew how the outward glow of adoring love had faded as the mind was suddenly turned inward to self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [The Rosary] Reference
Startled out of self-contemplation, the older man leaned forward to give his aid to a moment whose bitterness he divined. From Wordnik.com. [From the Car Behind] Reference
Besides why should self-contemplation result in a sphere and contemplation of the First Cause in an Intelligence or angel?. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
Catholicism in Italy, confining itself to external demonstrations, dispenses the soul from meditation and self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy] Reference
One person will use it with a perfect habit of self-forgetfulness, and another will be haunted by a perpetual self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. Volume The Fourth.] Reference
Worthington lay staring at him and them, glad perhaps to be turned for a moment from self-contemplation by any incident, however trifling. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
So that it was only when my self-contemplation, and with it the inward cleavage, had at length ceased, that I attained to quietude of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference
But although the visitors tired him when he felt responsible for their pleasure, he did not shut himself up now any more than at any other time in self-contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington]
It will learn its own baseness better thus than by self-contemplation, and will be freer from the reptiles which enter the first room where self-knowledge is acquired. From Wordnik.com. [The Interior Castle or The Mansions] Reference
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