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Definition of contemplative in English: contemplativeadjectivekənˈtɛmplətɪvkənˈtɛmplədɪv 1Expressing or involving prolonged thought. 沉思的 she regarded me with a contemplative eye 她若有所思地凝视着我。 Example sentencesExamples - Haiku is contemplative poetry and is characterised by spontaneity and lightness.
- On the other hand, the dynamic panoramic views reflect his contemplative sense of analysis and recognition of space, timing and content.
- The film also implicitly questions the validity of a contemporary academic that fails to incorporate political activism in favour of a purely aesthetic or contemplative mode of being.
- Nobody really needs one more contemplative musical sigh about how it's kinda sad when your woman leaves you or you realize you just don't fit into society or you're getting old.
- But either way, it's a warm, gently humid, contemplative space, air filled with the gurgle of small waterfalls, flowing over the regular patterns of concrete steps, into pools sprouting with fern and reed.
- He says he's trying to ‘create a contemplative space’ in a city that has been overtaken by advertising and commerce, in a culture that is becoming less free and more mediated.
- Described as part rock, part country, they straddle the very popular contemporary line between all out party animals and more considered contemplative songwriters and performers.
- Then some of them are very contemplative and introspective.
- His air is contemplative and dreamy in both self-portraits.
- These painted images are contemplative musings of a reflective thinker looking through veils of timelessness to honour the artistic masters of the past.
- One would have liked a better balance throughout the album, as it slows dangerously on the latter half and misplaces its original rock intentions while it pursues a more contemplative attitude.
- The long, dreamy, contemplative takes of classic Hollywood studio movies or postwar European art films are long gone.
- Then follows his more recent photographic work that expresses his contemplative enjoyment of the quiet landscapes unrolling between the Great Lakes and the East Coast.
- We must take it at face value for there is no torment beyond the exuberant grins, coy smirks or contemplative musings of any of the grandmothers.
- It is such a fixture in our collective consciousness, it seems either much older or much younger, but certainly not the ordinary, pedestrian, contemplative age of 50.
- I can't really put my finger on it, but I have realised that it is seriously underplayed in my life, and definitely merits more frequent airings, especially when I want to be contemplative.
- I can tell you he's read thousands of pages, and met with a lot of different people who have very strong views, and he's been very contemplative how he's considered this issue.
- In more contemplative moments, Dick must pine for the relatively simple life he enjoyed at his previous posting.
- In lieu of more thoughtful and contemplative reflections, I'll just present my top 5 panels.
- The mood of his album is dreamy and contemplative, with occasional bursts of childish exuberance.
Synonyms thoughtful, pensive, reflective, meditative, musing, ruminative, introspective, brooding, intent, rapt, preoccupied, studious, deep/lost in thought dreamy, daydreaming, with one's head in the clouds informal in a brown study - 1.1 Involving or given to deep silent prayer or religious meditation.
冥想的；默念的；敛心默祷的 contemplative knowledge of God 在敛心默祷中感受上帝同在。 Example sentencesExamples - This is one of the material reasons the world needs nuns outside the contemplative orders - teaching sisters, hospital sisters, Missionaries of Charity and the rest.
- The daily prayer services move through themes loosely associated with the seven days of creation; each service repeatedly invites silent contemplative prayer.
- The quest for personal mastery requires some form of meditation or contemplative prayer because ‘it is helpful in working more productively with the subconscious mind’.
- Then, in her middle seventies, she stopped, resolving to use the years she had left to pursue God through the solitary practice of contemplative prayer.
- At other points, the poetry of ideas is brought together with a more natural landscape to create contemplative opportunities of the type usually associated with ancient temples and monuments.
- As a member of a contemplative religious order spending time in silence is nothing strange to me, and is something I look forward to.
- But people were also contemplative and prayerful.
- To my mind, the essential difference between philosophy and religion is in the religious type of contemplative act, the observer is within it, not outside it.
- Despite the noisy celebration with loud conches and raucous bells, the essence of practice of Hinduism is a quiet introspection and contemplative meditation.
- The early poetry reveals an interest in religious contemplative themes.
- It can stimulate religions to excavate the contemplative and meditative paths in their own heritages, such as the Jewish meditation movement and Christian centering prayer.
- The natural beauty of the Park is ideal for contemplative life, as monks and nuns of earlier centuries found before us.
- It's as old as humanity, and in the Christian tradition there is a very clear and strong affirmation of the contemplative dimension of prayer.
- Lewis's last three chapters are an extended allegory of contemplative prayer.
- Plus, you will need to set aside 40 minutes each day for contemplative prayer.
- And he was for 14 years a member of a contemplative religious order so his values are all in the right place.
- It has been argued that the current interest in contemplative prayer is a middle-class luxury for those who wish to experience some kind of spiritual frisson.
- We are now fully in the domain of contemplative prayer.
- I would sit there with my books and studies, or sometimes engage in my own form of contemplative prayer.
- People walk the labyrinth slowly, as an aid to contemplative prayer and reflection, as a spiritual exercise, or as a form of pilgrimage.
Synonyms prayerful, reflective, musing, pensive, cogitative, thinking, thoughtful, studious, rapt, introspective, brooding, philosophical, ruminative, deliberative, ruminant, speculative, wistful
nounkənˈtɛmplətɪvkənˈtɛmplədɪv A person whose life is devoted primarily to prayer, especially in a monastery or convent. 敛心默祷者；僧侣；修士；修女 Example sentencesExamples - I mean that's what religious contemplatives have tried to do and to grasp.
- She employs quotes from philosophers, artists, contemplatives and others to draw us into the quiet world she depicts.
- And I suppose the biggest and strongest desire I have is this one of being a contemplative with a capital C.
- She points out that even Sufi practitioners, the contemplatives of Islam, are marginalized by the powerful clerics and government leaders who guide Islam.
- And I came away convinced that having contemplatives in our secular society, dedicated to peace, praying for us, seemed less an anachronism and more a blessing in our troubled 21st century.
- What Evans has provided, however, is a well-written and masterful introduction to this great monastic contemplative and doctor of the church.
- Medieval contemplatives kept their eyes on heaven, too, denying that this world is their real home and resting place.
- Unification with God is the goal of contemplatives.
- These contemplatives, who appeared so oddly out of touch with the world as it was, knew far more about it than those whose days were spent mastering the marketplace.
- Asked why, the rabbi responded: ‘How many of your bishops are contemplatives?’
- The false self that the contemplative would renounce is problematic.
- Early Puritan Baptists relied on some techniques for cultivating the spiritual life very similar to those used by medieval contemplatives.
- Vergil is a kind of contemplative who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day.
- He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a contemplative and spend the rest of his life in the monastery.
- One could argue that the open position is represented at one end of the spectrum by contemplatives and the solid position at the other end by fundamentalists.
- And in what way can the contemplatives, religious leaders and educators of our time help to build this bridge from privatised piety to public moral responsibility.
- Nonetheless, the act of reading can be sacred if we realize how close it is in spirit to the search for the contemplative.
- Father Joseph was one of the great Christian contemplatives of his century.
- Thomas was a biblical commentator, an educator of his fellow friars, a theologian, a preacher, and a great contemplative.
- Most deputies, many parish priests among them, believed that contemplatives were useless parasites, unproductive burdens on society whose existence no national church could justify.
Definition of contemplative in US English: contemplativeadjectivekənˈtɛmplədɪvkənˈtemplədiv 1Expressing or involving prolonged thought. 沉思的 she regarded me with a contemplative eye 她若有所思地凝视着我。 Example sentencesExamples - In more contemplative moments, Dick must pine for the relatively simple life he enjoyed at his previous posting.
- One would have liked a better balance throughout the album, as it slows dangerously on the latter half and misplaces its original rock intentions while it pursues a more contemplative attitude.
- The film also implicitly questions the validity of a contemporary academic that fails to incorporate political activism in favour of a purely aesthetic or contemplative mode of being.
- We must take it at face value for there is no torment beyond the exuberant grins, coy smirks or contemplative musings of any of the grandmothers.
- The mood of his album is dreamy and contemplative, with occasional bursts of childish exuberance.
- Haiku is contemplative poetry and is characterised by spontaneity and lightness.
- He says he's trying to ‘create a contemplative space’ in a city that has been overtaken by advertising and commerce, in a culture that is becoming less free and more mediated.
- Then some of them are very contemplative and introspective.
- The long, dreamy, contemplative takes of classic Hollywood studio movies or postwar European art films are long gone.
- Nobody really needs one more contemplative musical sigh about how it's kinda sad when your woman leaves you or you realize you just don't fit into society or you're getting old.
- On the other hand, the dynamic panoramic views reflect his contemplative sense of analysis and recognition of space, timing and content.
- It is such a fixture in our collective consciousness, it seems either much older or much younger, but certainly not the ordinary, pedestrian, contemplative age of 50.
- Described as part rock, part country, they straddle the very popular contemporary line between all out party animals and more considered contemplative songwriters and performers.
- These painted images are contemplative musings of a reflective thinker looking through veils of timelessness to honour the artistic masters of the past.
- I can't really put my finger on it, but I have realised that it is seriously underplayed in my life, and definitely merits more frequent airings, especially when I want to be contemplative.
- But either way, it's a warm, gently humid, contemplative space, air filled with the gurgle of small waterfalls, flowing over the regular patterns of concrete steps, into pools sprouting with fern and reed.
- In lieu of more thoughtful and contemplative reflections, I'll just present my top 5 panels.
- Then follows his more recent photographic work that expresses his contemplative enjoyment of the quiet landscapes unrolling between the Great Lakes and the East Coast.
- His air is contemplative and dreamy in both self-portraits.
- I can tell you he's read thousands of pages, and met with a lot of different people who have very strong views, and he's been very contemplative how he's considered this issue.
Synonyms thoughtful, pensive, reflective, meditative, musing, ruminative, introspective, brooding, intent, rapt, preoccupied, studious, deep in thought, lost in thought - 1.1 Involving or given to deep silent prayer or religious meditation.
冥想的；默念的；敛心默祷的 contemplative knowledge of God 在敛心默祷中感受上帝同在。 Example sentencesExamples - It's as old as humanity, and in the Christian tradition there is a very clear and strong affirmation of the contemplative dimension of prayer.
- At other points, the poetry of ideas is brought together with a more natural landscape to create contemplative opportunities of the type usually associated with ancient temples and monuments.
- As a member of a contemplative religious order spending time in silence is nothing strange to me, and is something I look forward to.
- Then, in her middle seventies, she stopped, resolving to use the years she had left to pursue God through the solitary practice of contemplative prayer.
- It can stimulate religions to excavate the contemplative and meditative paths in their own heritages, such as the Jewish meditation movement and Christian centering prayer.
- The early poetry reveals an interest in religious contemplative themes.
- It has been argued that the current interest in contemplative prayer is a middle-class luxury for those who wish to experience some kind of spiritual frisson.
- Despite the noisy celebration with loud conches and raucous bells, the essence of practice of Hinduism is a quiet introspection and contemplative meditation.
- But people were also contemplative and prayerful.
- And he was for 14 years a member of a contemplative religious order so his values are all in the right place.
- People walk the labyrinth slowly, as an aid to contemplative prayer and reflection, as a spiritual exercise, or as a form of pilgrimage.
- Lewis's last three chapters are an extended allegory of contemplative prayer.
- We are now fully in the domain of contemplative prayer.
- To my mind, the essential difference between philosophy and religion is in the religious type of contemplative act, the observer is within it, not outside it.
- The natural beauty of the Park is ideal for contemplative life, as monks and nuns of earlier centuries found before us.
- I would sit there with my books and studies, or sometimes engage in my own form of contemplative prayer.
- The quest for personal mastery requires some form of meditation or contemplative prayer because ‘it is helpful in working more productively with the subconscious mind’.
- Plus, you will need to set aside 40 minutes each day for contemplative prayer.
- This is one of the material reasons the world needs nuns outside the contemplative orders - teaching sisters, hospital sisters, Missionaries of Charity and the rest.
- The daily prayer services move through themes loosely associated with the seven days of creation; each service repeatedly invites silent contemplative prayer.
Synonyms prayerful, reflective, musing, pensive, cogitative, thinking, thoughtful, studious, rapt, introspective, brooding, philosophical, ruminative, deliberative, ruminant, speculative, wistful
nounkənˈtɛmplədɪvkənˈtemplədiv A person whose life is devoted primarily to prayer, especially in a monastery or convent. 敛心默祷者；僧侣；修士；修女 Example sentencesExamples - One could argue that the open position is represented at one end of the spectrum by contemplatives and the solid position at the other end by fundamentalists.
- Nonetheless, the act of reading can be sacred if we realize how close it is in spirit to the search for the contemplative.
- Vergil is a kind of contemplative who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day.
- Most deputies, many parish priests among them, believed that contemplatives were useless parasites, unproductive burdens on society whose existence no national church could justify.
- She points out that even Sufi practitioners, the contemplatives of Islam, are marginalized by the powerful clerics and government leaders who guide Islam.
- He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a contemplative and spend the rest of his life in the monastery.
- Early Puritan Baptists relied on some techniques for cultivating the spiritual life very similar to those used by medieval contemplatives.
- These contemplatives, who appeared so oddly out of touch with the world as it was, knew far more about it than those whose days were spent mastering the marketplace.
- And I came away convinced that having contemplatives in our secular society, dedicated to peace, praying for us, seemed less an anachronism and more a blessing in our troubled 21st century.
- Thomas was a biblical commentator, an educator of his fellow friars, a theologian, a preacher, and a great contemplative.
- The false self that the contemplative would renounce is problematic.
- Father Joseph was one of the great Christian contemplatives of his century.
- What Evans has provided, however, is a well-written and masterful introduction to this great monastic contemplative and doctor of the church.
- She employs quotes from philosophers, artists, contemplatives and others to draw us into the quiet world she depicts.
- I mean that's what religious contemplatives have tried to do and to grasp.
- Medieval contemplatives kept their eyes on heaven, too, denying that this world is their real home and resting place.
- Unification with God is the goal of contemplatives.
- Asked why, the rabbi responded: ‘How many of your bishops are contemplatives?’
- And in what way can the contemplatives, religious leaders and educators of our time help to build this bridge from privatised piety to public moral responsibility.
- And I suppose the biggest and strongest desire I have is this one of being a contemplative with a capital C.
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