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How To Use contemplative In A Sentence

• I love contemplative first person narratives, in which nothing happens and yet everything of significance is profoundly altered. Molly Fox’s Birthday « Tales from the Reading Room
• Beyond even the highest point of this interior life, in which the contemplative feels himself to be living “in God,” [26] is that transfigured or deified life, as the Platonic mystics named it, which Ruysbroeck calls overwesen — superessential — the life of the “God-seeing man” (Book III). The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
• The unfolding journey in the album, from the contemplative to the celebrative, is a perfect analog to the gradual evolution from darkness to the dawn, in our morning event. Joseph Vella: Interview: Paul Winter -- The 16th Annual Summer Solstice Concert June 18th NYC
• Plus, you will need to set aside 40 minutes each day for contemplative prayer.
• All of these films have the kind of virtuosic roles that actors relish, and the kind of contemplative subject matter studios shy from. Latimes.com - News
• The introvert is the typical contemplative, predominantly interested in the inner world. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day
• I mean that's what religious contemplatives have tried to do and to grasp.
• So if among virtuous actions political and military actions are distinguished by nobility and greatness, and these are unleisurely and aim at an end and are not desirable for their own sake, but the activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior in serious worth and to aim at no end beyond itself, and to have its pleasure proper to itself (and this augments the activity), and the self-sufficiency, leisureliness, unweariedness The Nicomachean Ethics
• Freeman, like numerous mystics and contemplatives before him, shows us that our main problem is ourselves.
• And he was for 14 years a member of a contemplative religious order so his values are all in the right place.