pensiveness

Example Sentences

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Tom Berenger, who plays Longstreet in the film, brilliantly emphasizes his character’s brooding, deep-eyed pensiveness.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023

The big screen at Stadium Australia cut to Kerr barely a minute into the match, and went back to her several times during the game as she looked at various stages of pensiveness.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023

Hutchison’s adoption of the name is an avowal of his timidity, and an affirmation that insecurity and pensiveness don’t need to be character flaws.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2018

And in Lulu’s moments of pensiveness and quiet fear, Ms. Petersen sings with a tender vulnerability that catches you off guard.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2015

He was feeling that touch of pensiveness which comes with a sense of vanishing pleasures.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore