cogitation

How To Use cogitation In A Sentence

• The garish colors, the bawling kids, the irritating and distracting music and the inedible snacks make it no place for conversation or cogitation. Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks
• after much cogitation he rejected the offer
• More important, though, were his continued and inspired cogitations on the confederation's beleaguered finances.
• Qualis est animi tinea, quae tabes pectoris zelare in altero vel aliorum felicitatem suam facere miseriam, et velut quosdam pectori suo admovere carnifices, cogitationibus et sensibus suis adhibere tortores, qui se intestinis cruciatibus lacerent. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Literature-inspired cogitations, often wonderful, bejewel the narrative's temporal twists and turns.
• After long cogitations, I resolved to steal up to the house, if possible, unperceived; have my horse turned over to the groom, and my portmanteau stowed out of sight, and then to walk boldly up to the door, with a visiting-card in one hand, and my credentials in the other, to be delivered to the servant for the lady to whom the letter was addressed. The Lieutenant and Commander
• Peter Winn lay back comfortably in a library chair, with closed eyes, deep in the cogitation of a scheme of campaign destined in the near future to make a certain coterie of hostile financiers sit up. Winged Blackmail
• It’s clear that she, like so many others, feels that blacks are lacking something in cogitation. The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
• his cogitations were dutifully recorded in his daybook
• As Dick Forrest had taught them, the minutes spent with him were not minutes of cogitation. CHAPTER IV