brooding
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Brooding and mysterious, hunky and conflicted, he was written in a way that all but guaranteed viewers would be instinctively drawn to him.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2022
The “Siren Brooding on Her Eggs,” for instance, sits on her “frowsy nest / of neckties” singing a lullaby to “hungry egglets” who will soon hatch into something “ravenous with song.”
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2021
Brooding like a rectangularised brain over one end of Education City is the headquarters of the Qatar Foundation, an inscrutable whitish cube perforated by square openings and sliced by a long horizontal slit.
From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2018
Brooding on the questions, he came up with 33 responses, which are laid out in these pages in as many numbered sections.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2017
Brooding his friend asked, “Are there names in the dark realms?”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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