contemplation

The music, most of it from the early 17th century, is more austere, demanding concentration and contemplation.

The film is a more of a quiet, wintry contemplation.

Mr Modu sinks into his chair at times, pausing in deep contemplation.

Born into a family of samurai rank, Kurosawa felt that action rather than contemplation reveals the human soul.

Anchored by extensive conversations with the director Martin Scorsese, it is a five-hour, five-part contemplation of an extraordinary career and the myriad forces — personal, cultural, spiritual — that drove, and occasionally threatened to derail, it.