cogitating

He had a cogitating look on his face.

And he began to work in earnest on the manuscript for “City of Quartz,” which brought together ideas he had been cogitating on for years.

But mostly the denizens of this encampment stand around cogitating, in long sentences heavy with metaphors and dependent clauses, and have few articulated motivations or desires.

A breakthrough: The heroically cogitating, exquisitely sensitive, cruelly alienated solitary male consciousness is finally getting his due!

I stare at his back for a while, cogitating, unsure of how to begin.