The Inness room at the Chicago Art Institute is another school for the meditative producer, if he would evolve his tribute to France on American soil.
He is as far from themeditative spirituality of Rembrandt as could well be imagined.
I do not insist that the prospective author-producer adopt the hieroglyphic method as a routine, if he but consents in his meditative hours to the point of view that it implies.
The train which bore him to New York bore a very meditative young man.
Something in her thoughtful, self-debating, meditative manner made him think so.
She looked at him reflectively, her finger denting her chin in a meditative fashion she had.
He is a very singular man," said Richelieu, in a meditative tone.
He spoke in a sort of meditative tone, and, when he stopped, Edward had nothing to reply but, "Your Eminence is gracious.
His nature lore was an aside; he gathered it as the meditative saunterer gathers a leaf, or a flower, or a shell on the beach, while he ponders on higher things.
A man like myself, who is an observer and of a meditative cast, does better in the country.
When he could he would sit in her presence for hours, mute and motionless, with a book on his knees, glancing at her with his meditative eyes now and then in rapt veneration.
And yet," I put in, with a meditative air, "I have never observed that waiters are so much better off than the rest of the community.
Rose still scrutinizing him with a meditative air.
Quite unruffled, Mac leaned his chin in both hands, regarding them with a meditative eye as he answered in his whimsical way: "Why not?
These men are courtiers, utterly devoid of the collected and meditative tranquillity found in the legions of the Church.
The response of the overjoyed lover was but one or two passionate words, and her sufficient reply, as they halted among their fellows, was to look across the valley with her meditative smile.
His response came with meditative slowness and with playful eyes: "Whenever I am justified in having such anxieties, they shall go unconfessed.
And Mr. Falkirk, in a silence that was meditative if not gloomy, lay and watched her.
To-night Mr. Falkirk rather neglected them, and seemed to be in a meditative mood.
A fine matter for reflection (especially for anyone born as meditative as I)!
You are, perhaps, a little too distrustful of yourself, or, rather, you are too much afraid to enter into discussions contrary to the inclination you have for a tranquil and meditative life.
The Tempest contains the noblest meditative passage in all the plays; that which embodies Shakespeare's final view of life, and is the inevitable quotation of all who would sum the teachings of philosophy.
Another generalization as to the essential difference marking Oriental and Occidental psychic natures is that the former is meditative and appreciative, and the latter is active.
The difficulty of becoming mutually acquainted--The secret of genuine acquaintance--Is the East inherently meditative and the West active?
Nor is the presentation of Guido Franceschini under two faces less powerful, or that of the Pope, in his meditative silence.
It is a meditative poem of recollective tenderness wandering through the past; and no poem written on married love in England is more beautiful.
But sometimes," concluded Paul with a sigh and a meditative air "I really think porridge will be the death of me.
And placing his stick between his knees, the old man leant his hands upon it, with a meditative and judicial air.
Sandy sucked a meditative thumb, putting his face to the window, and surveyed the arrival which was going on in the front garden.
And the priests--' She smiled again, little meditative smiles, as though she were recalling her experiences.
David leant against the wall beside her, twisting a meditative lip.
David resumed the half smiling, half meditative attitude which had provoked her before.
David received his wife's remarks in a meditative silence.
Next morning he rose like a giant refreshed, and, after a plunge in the sea and a hearty breakfast, set out with Cuffy for a meditative walk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meditative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
