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
On tracks like “I Neva Seen” and “Enterprise,” it’s clear the body is in motion, but there’s an overlay of deep soothing and pensiveness, an almost new age energy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
In any given conversation, her saucer eyes suggest a dozen different moods – pensiveness, outrage, hilarity.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2018
It is a medicine proved against the tremblynge of the harte, faynting and swooning, the weakness of the stomacke, pensiveness, solitarines.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
