How To Use Meditative In A Sentence

round and round, while meditatively, as a cow chewing the cud, he let his eyes rest on the flat water ahead of him
This fifteen metre, golden statue has sat here for 30 years and while its bulk is impressive, don't expect meditative solemnity; the forecourt is noisy with music, stalls and snack bars.
As an outcome of meditative experience, whatever appearances may arise can be transformed through meditative insight into a realization of the nature of all things as insubstantial, uncompounded, and only existing interdependently.
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other major museums, was often called "nonobjective cinema," a term used to describe movies that dispense with representation and immerse the viewer in a meditative world of pure unspooling form. NYT > Home Page
For someone like myself who finds meditative pleasures in sweeping, I'll spend a few more shekels to whisk away all that scuzz and dreck with my plant-based broom.

For a few moments she said nothing, seeming to have become infected with her companion's dreamy meditativeness. The Sign of the Spider
This pose is very easy to perform and is also a good meditative posture for it allows the mind to relax and gain strength. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 642
His voice, deeper and from the gut, returns in this CD to a peaceable realm, to the great meditative music of the Mandingo empire.
Meditative and soft, his blurred landscapes exude a sense of atmosphere.
Rich -- a combination of Jimi Hendrix and Keith Richards -- jerks and shreds the guitar so hard you can almost see the electricity running through his body, while Dan knocks over drums, aerobically pounds on symbols, and behind his swooping bangs you can see his closed eyes and meditative expression. Mihal Freinquel: When Style Meets Music: Aja Volkman of Nico Vega
(the possession of correct views, decision and purity of thought and will, the ability of reproducing any sound uttered in the universe, vow of poverty, asceticism, attainment of meditative abstraction of self-control, religious recollectedness, honesty and virtue), and such doctrines. Buddhism and Buddhists in China
The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
The songs on the album prove meditative, probing, and soothing all at once; they comfort without slipping into naivete.
After days of around-the-clock network coverage, they gave a meditative pace to an adrenalized story. Cameras Defining the Chaos and Its Aftermath
Stormy scenes and emotional outbursts at work or at home are defused due to your meditative attitude and calming influence.
All the songs are meditative and laced with humour and sadness.
Meditative techniques were designed to eliminate this struggle, to overcome the duality and to promote a more balanced mental condition.
An attempt to escape reality (her home and life are very gloomy now) and retreat into this mystical meditative "place", instead of believing God and His concrete Word will help you to face reality, as an overcomer. The Better Part
The traveller champed meditatively at his steak.
George Condo: A Collection of Etchings | Condo is typically known for bold paintings so brash as to be referred to as gonzo "artificial realism," the term the artist uses to describe his works, which by turns are meditative, wry, irreverent and fantastical, reflecting Condo's now-iconic surrealistic mash-up of old and modern masters. Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19)
Practitioners included healers from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Native American, and shamanic traditions as well as graduates of secular schools of bioenergetic and meditative healing.
For me, clipping topiary becomes almost meditative once you lose yourself in the task. Times, Sunday Times
This impatience of continued application to work, which is common to all opium-eaters, and which does not cease with the abandonment of the habit, seems to result in the first case from some specific relation between the drug and the meditative faculties, promoting a state of habitual reverie and day-dreaming, utterly indisposing the opium-user for any occupation which will disturb the calm current of his thoughts, and in the other, proceeding from the direct disorder of the nervous organization itself. The Opium Habit
The Heights of Macchu Picchu, a long, meditative poem, unites the ancient past to the possible future.
It was like emerging from a long meditative trance or an acid trip.
Is this a mystical gift bestowed upon me in a meditative trance?
The boys listened to the heavy metal band Slipknot and progressive rockers The Mars Volta, studied the form of meditative movement called tai chi, and watched and discussed movies. Chron.com Chronicle
And when you play those pieces do you still get yourself into a meditative state?
So I must confront again the need to pause for at least some of the day in a meditative manner.
Once you've finished this wonderful book you're haunted by the melancholy tone of this solitary, meditative figure.
The ambience of the recording simply adds to the meditative, trance-like atmosphere.
Tad sighed as Aubri went through the whole of his dry, impish, "absentminded" routine, first scratching his rusty-brown headfeathers meditatively (which made more dustmotes dance into the light), then staring up at the ceiling of the dwelling he shared with Judeth. The Silver Gryphon
And I'm glad I did, because not only do I feel like I'm riding a new bike, but there's also still enough residual knobbiness left for them to make that meditative Om-like humming sound on the pavement, thus reinvigorating my sun-baked soul. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Dog Days
Even at the first glance, almost all the paintings on display betray the meditative mood of the painter when the artist was at work.
Late Autumn might have with its predecessor, the similarities are more significant, particularly a quality that Michael Atkinson attributed to Ozu's Zen-infused sensibility translates on film to something like the art form's nascent formal beauty: patiently watching little happen, and the meditative moments around the nonhappening, until it becomes crashingly apparent that lives are at stake and the whole world is struggling to be born. ' GreenCine Daily
Also, one can spot grey hornbills, with their hooked beaks perched on the branches in meditative silence.
Not until the scherzo's trio did time seem to stand still in a meditative haze of dance recalled. Times, Sunday Times
The lights were dim and incense was burning setting a somber and meditative atmosphere.
New Madrid (winner of the Wallflower award, imho a duff choice) narrates John James Audubon’s account of the 1812 New Madrid earthquake which altered the flow of the Mississippi river, over footage of landscape and submerged trees: beautiful and meditative, but also somnolescent. January « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life. Times, Sunday Times
After days of around-the-clock network coverage, they gave a meditative pace to an adrenalized story. Cameras Defining the Chaos and Its Aftermath
The meditative bits have been airbrushed out and replaced by weird little fantasy scenes with tinkling songs and piano music. Times, Sunday Times
Meditative techniques were designed to eliminate this struggle, to overcome the duality and to promote a more balanced mental condition.
The best pieces are the ones with the least instrumentation - they reward the careful listener with flashes of warmth and meditativeness in the midst of the chilly haze.
A form of gentle, almost meditative exercise such as Pilates may seem far removed from the macho world of football.
This account alludes only indirectly to the Buddha's original meditative accomplishments before the awakening.
The meditative bits have been airbrushed out and replaced by weird little fantasy scenes with tinkling songs and piano music. Times, Sunday Times
Recently there have been sophisticated investigations of expert meditators from various concentrative practices such as Buddhism, Zen, meditative yoga, and Qi Gong.
She went into a meditative trance, and was like that for at least half an hour before she came out of it.
The fault of the epoch is the absence of meditativeness. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women
Recovery requires a holistic approach, including good nutrition, regular exercise and meditative practice. Times, Sunday Times
Only the fantastic touch about 'green ice' ranks it as 'metaphysical', for it is in fact an experiment in the manner of the Horatian ode, not the heroic ode, but the lighter Epicurean, meditative strain of 'Solvitur acris hiems' and 'Vides ut alta stet nive candidum', description yielding abruptly to reflection. Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C
The ocean is by its nature meditative, but there's no place aboard with a water view where you can sit and think and be unstimulated (by alcohol or otherwise) for a few minutes. Alison Stein Wellner: The Cruise Ship that Ate My Brain
Are there any meditative techniques which increase or intensify these experiences?
Hill's words suggested both the form and atmosphere of the work: two chaconnes, containing ‘long passages of meditative counterpoint’, interspersed with three contrasting interludes.
For me, clipping topiary becomes almost meditative once you lose yourself in the task. Times, Sunday Times
Yet despite maintaining a slow and meditative pace throughout, The Consequences of Love is peppered with moments of understated wit.
Within individual poems the meditative voice can operate dialectically, considering a position and then emending it, but the position of poems in sequence also constitutes a dialectic, an on-going conversation.
Thus cubist art, has something of the character of poetry, presenting an image of the world that is meditative, haunting, lyrical, mysterious and sometimes obscure.
He seems to have cherished an intense affection for the Leyden pastor, such as valorous natures often feel for meditative ones, and that The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence. Stephen Richards
But how often in our frenetic modern world do we take the time to consider anything with such careful, scrupulous, meditative intensity? Times, Sunday Times
While _Hamlet_ may be described as centering attention on a meditative and high-minded avenger, Tourneur, Webster, Middleton, and later dramatists found greater interest in the study of villainy and intrigue. The Facts About Shakespeare
The meditative mood and ethereal atmosphere of the painting create an aura of intimacy that counters the epic scale of its composition.
Since all meditative experiences are so radically subjective it seems difficult to find a language in which to couch an objective or value-free account of them.
This is an album full of contemplative and meditative pleasures.
So there is a point to doing stuff, the point being that we have no other choice unless one is to climb a mountain, sit in a cave, enter into a state of dhyana (meditative absorption), and whither away until one's consciousness can separate from whatever is left of the body. The WELL: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
Since ancient times, mandalas were used as a means of deepening and enhancing the meditative experience.
Music can induce a meditative state in the listener.
In the god, or deva, realm one is more ‘blissed-out,’ and the pleasure here is more of a sense of meditative absorption, a self-consciousness, a mental state of swelling on one's own ego.
And thus there seems no escape from the admission that what we fondly call our great seats of learning are simply "boarding schools" for bigger boys; that learned men are not more numerous in them than out of them; that the advancement of knowledge is not the object of fellows of colleges; that, in the philosophic calm and meditative stillness of their greenswarded courts, philosophy does not thrive, and meditation bears few fruits. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
They stress vegetarianism as one of the cornerstones of a successful meditative and spiritual life.
She silently slipped into a meditative trance and heard the music of her mind.
His meditative works add a lyrical note to the rich heritage of American landscape painting.
Meditative techniques were designed to eliminate this struggle, to overcome the duality and to promote a more balanced mental condition.
The meditative bits have been airbrushed out and replaced by weird little fantasy scenes with tinkling songs and piano music. Times, Sunday Times
I liked the meditative nature of it, though, as well as all the western overtones; it was brilliant.
Braendlein instead uses the term "focussing," although she says that archery in fact is a meditative activity. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Nothing supports this claim as convincingly as the meditative ‘The Music Plays Itself,’ where limpid guitars reverberate mournfully over railroad noise and faded electronic scratch.
Sometimes, when the east wind is full of meditative savagery, one almost fancies that a hot odour may have travelled in its caravan from the heart of China, bringing us a message from the spice trees of Kwangtung. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
~ Staying power (2) -- You've perhaps heard of dhyana (pali: jhana) or meditative absorption, traditionally divided into subtle form and formless, each in a set of four stages. Speedlinking 8/17/07
Again, meditative people will find a charm in a certain consonancy between the aspect of the city and its odd and stirring history. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
At times there was a deep meditativeness in the eye, again a dusky fire. The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 4
In this discussion Buddhists draw nourishment and guidance from a centuries-old tradition of Christian meditative prayer and monastic practice.
Meditatively I smoke a cigarette and sip a pale greenish liquor smelling strongly of aniseed, which isn't half so interesting as a commonplace whiskey and soda, but which, I am told, has the recommendation of being ten times as wicked. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance
Not until the scherzo 's trio did time seem to stand still in a meditative haze of dance recalled. Times, Sunday Times
I listened white plains is meditative of starting independent. No broadcasts from Section 1 finals | Varsity Insider
Music can induce a meditative state in the listener.
For the meditative arias and extended choruses, Bach apparently planned to adapt pre-existing music from his cantatas, a parody procedure he often used and one that Koopman, too, has adopted to make his realization.
It's a collection of simple meditative talks or essays starting from spring and ending in winter.
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 goal of Hall's meditative practice is "an inward adoration of God".
In an instant all the eyes of the assembly were cast, at the same time, upon us; and I remarked that the meditativeness and expectation increased in every face. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
In the billboard ad, yoga class attendees adopted meditative positions suited up in the spa's yellow gym suits.
But how often in our frenetic modern world do we take the time to consider anything with such careful, scrupulous, meditative intensity? Times, Sunday Times
The meditative bits have been airbrushed out and replaced by weird little fantasy scenes with tinkling songs and piano music. Times, Sunday Times
Turning to the contemporary, dealer Katie Jones will have a joint show at Galerie Besson in the Royal Arcade of sought-after Japanese ceramist Ken Mihara and indigo-dye textile artist Shihoko Fukumoto, both produce striking meditative works (prices: £ 3,000 - £ 14,500). Asian Art Soars in London
The meditative mood and ethereal atmosphere of the painting create an aura of intimacy that counters the epic scale of its composition.
Meditatively, Weinberg pulled out the waistband of his aquamarine sweatpants and lifted his unit in his left hand—he gasped, letting fall from his lips two lit cigarettes and thereby setting his tsimmes pan on fire. The Best American Erotica 2006
Christian insight vigorous forms of meditative state, desciption of memory long-term short-term memory and memories accuracy of childhood of children false neurobiology of neurological disorders and Born to Believe
Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the fancy of a double Dupin — the creative and the resolvent. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Meditatively I smoke a cigarette and sip a pale greenish liquor smelling strongly of aniseed, which is The Quest of the Golden Girl
For me, clipping topiary becomes almost meditative once you lose yourself in the task. Times, Sunday Times
These theories have allegedly been tested and experientially confirmed numerous times over the past 2,500 years, by means of duplicable meditative techniques. B Alan Wallace - Overlapping Worlds
Bley offers four meditative meanderings that lull the listener in, before surprising them with a new and unexpected turn.
Seated on an up-turned bucket, drawing meditatively on his well-seasoned briarwood, he looked a perfect picture of content. A Pirate of Parts
In the adagio solo at the center of George Balanchine's Square Dance, Peter Boal exudes a beautiful meditative melancholy from each perfectly articulated phrase.
An 'says I to her:' Meg Kissock, ye're a bonny woman, 'says I.' My certie, but ye hae e'en like spunkies [will-o'-the-wisps] or maybes," said Saunders in a meditative tone. The Lilac Sunbonnet
He wanted visitors to be able to visit the site in a quiet, meditative space.
Given that ‘benediction’ stands for the short blessing at the close of a religious service, the title itself provides a hint of the music's meditative, atemporal character.
I have wondered, for instance, whether it is more a sense of brushstroke rather than verbal felicity that makes for some of the most arresting imagery in the lyric poems of David Campbell or the meditative poems of Robert Gray.
He plays the futozao shamisen, a three-stringed instrument from which she extracts a soft array of sounds, from subdued scrapes, to slow, meditative plucking, to ratcheting and vibrating string-bends.
He died for no ends of patriotic devotion, or even of moral reformation, as regards the social wrongs and destructive vices of the world, but for the state of sin itself and the recovery of souls to God — just that kind of benefaction which only a very few of mankind, such as Plato, for example, and like meditative teachers here and there, had once thought of as a want, or could even begin to conceive. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
They were looking for music that would transport the listener to another era; something meditative and healing. Times, Sunday Times
In comparison to Volta's splendid riot, the quiet sculptures seem meditative and spare, almost passive.
And might be she is ill in a conduct might be in meditative she can get a KINGS ransom from a Journal News for a rights to movie a game. Archive 2009-11-01
Into that silence that was fraught with the shuffling of feet, bare and slippered both, the faint hiss of the stove and the sub-aural racket of neurons firing in brains that were no longer in touch with souls, no longer calm and meditative, neurons nudged from the path and straining to find their way back, there came a deep harsh ratcheting cry from the figure on the bed, from Karuna. The Silence
It's melodic, but even on a deep, meditative level, I feel this song is more glop than substance.
There is something deeply meditative about simply putting one foot in front of the other. Times, Sunday Times
In western classical music it is always with a group or orchestra, but Indian classical music is meditative because it is solitary. Times, Sunday Times
EEG aren't just being used for visualizing brainwaves or for entering meditative states while playing video games.
French national heroes are celebrated for their achievements and prototypically remembered for their meditative isolation. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, you need a quiet place, and time to observe and to attain a state of meditativeness and contemplativeness.
The classical music, the way sound is used - the ragas (melodies), the talas (rhythms) - everything is such that if you get deeply involved in it, it will bring meditativeness. Sadhguru: Spiritual Living: 7 Notes, 7 Chakras: Music, Spirituality and the Body (VIDEO)
The mudra which is used with most meditative poses is the ‘Gian Mudra.’
His meditative films reflected an unease with the modern world and a feeling of malaise in western society.
Her slow, measured movements of bending, dipping in to the buckets and straightening up, moving each time to the very edge of the ledge had a deeply meditative effect.
There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life. Times, Sunday Times
The centre of the Labyrinth is a space of meditative prayer and peace.
It's more a form of qi gong than tai chi - meditative postures and simple stretches.
Specifically, the Pan-Asian theme is both meditative and powerful, a mixture of gongs, shakuhachi, koto and taiko drums with the traditional symphonic score.
Throughout this compilation the listener will find excellent music for dining, dancing, relaxation, reflection, and meditative noctambulation.
It was wonderfully meditative, and as I sat there cross-legged, gonging away and soaking up the mystical reverberations, I got to thinking.
She silently slipped into a meditative trance and heard the music of her mind.
She focused her power on the warriors below her, going into an almost meditative trance.
It is the opposite of what Buddhists call ‘meditative equipoise.’
Such traditions often express a distrust of the meditative process and warn their adherents against its practice.
Since his recovery from the first shock and agitation of his suspension he had moved about the roads and tracks of Torre Amiata with the 'recollected' dignity of the pale and meditative recluse. Eleanor
Previous studies suggest either favourite tunes, or songs with a meditative tempo. Times, Sunday Times
The meditative mood and ethereal atmosphere of the painting create an aura of intimacy that counters the epic scale of its composition.
I am on nodding terms with a meditative turncock who lingers in one of them, and whom I suspect of a turn for poetry; the rather as he looks out of temper when he gives the fire-plug a disparaging wrench with that large tuning-fork of his which would wear out the shoulder of his coat, but for a precautionary piece of inlaid leather. The Uncommercial Traveller
Sometimes my parents had us all sit in a meditative circle at their Buddha altar and "ohm". Dustpan Alley (OLD)
Already from the very beginning his poetry has been marked by a kind of Oriental peace and meditativeness.
Into that silence that was fraught with the shuffling of feet, bare and slippered both, the faint hiss of the stove and the sub-aural racket of neurons firing in brains that were no longer in touch with souls, no longer calm and meditative, neurons nudged from the path and straining to find their way back, there came a deep harsh ratcheting cry from the figure on the bed, from Karuna. The Silence
They played a series of short, meditative pieces that were surprisingly harmonic, and finished with an improvisation which they prefer to call "intuitive music" that was theatrical and moving, with Tara starting at the back of the auditorium slowly approaching Markus on stage as they "intuited" each other's presence. 12th Other Minds Music Festival Part 2
When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence. Stephen Richards
There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life. Times, Sunday Times
This coffee-table collection of industrial-therapeutic dishabille — 70 abandoned asylums in 30 states, photographed over six years — is as gorgeous and meditative as it is harrowing. Cover to Cover
Focused massage itself induces a meditative state in the giver as well as the receiver, taking brain wave patterns into alpha.
An intense meditativeness, a devotional ecstasy and an insight of true heavenly wisdom is the ideal of life to which the Hindu has been called from time very remote. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ
The meditative experience of a yogi is free of giving in to ordinary thought.
The vivacity of former years gave way to a more restrained and meditative art.
When bebop emerged, Evans blended its busy lines and advanced progressions with Thornhill's meditative approach, writing engaging arrangements of bop standards such as altoist Charlie Parker's "Anthropology" and "Yardbird Suite. Hidden in Plain Hearing
Within the meditative tradition, cheerfulness is considered to be the natural, harmonious and wholesome expression of our truest self.
His meditative films reflected an unease with the modern world and a feeling of malaise in western society.
‘Mrs. Barnet was very well when I left home,’ the other answered constrainedly, exchanging his meditative regard of the horse for one of self-consciousness. Wessex Tales
The image is used particularly to refer to certain meditative techniques of self-reflection.
The repetitive motion of your legs and arms helps you enter a meditative state.
Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the Phaedon instead of Moby Dick; or the Whale
Music can induce a meditative state in the listener.
Ojile's work has long had a musing, meditative quality; these layered depths and inflected surfaces extend a particularly compelling invitation to ponder both the known and the unknowable.
While Justine prepared herself for action, I sipped meditatively on a drink containing 17 different herbs and whatnots guaranteed to detoxify my system.
Nightflame, for example, features an extravagantly rundown apartment - an infernal oil refinery visible through three windows - in which a meditative black woman stands wearing a ripped ball gown and a belt of barbed wire around her hips.
The man represented by the Prince of Disks is a quiet and meditative man, who works with unfailing determination towards the goals he sets himself.
When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence. Stephen Richards
So learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness.
Some got into a meditative mood, lost in the music with their eyes closed.
Swords are not needed, bombs are not needed; what is needed is more alertness, more meditativeness, more love, more prayerfulness, more gratitude.
So we've a representative of a polytheistic society next to the peaceful and meditative Rothko and a load of outsider-art-influenced herberts.
Zekhr is a meditative chant which repeats the name of Allah and his attributes, in order to bring one to a state of union with the Divine.
Martin rubbed his chin meditatively.
While the "antiquarian" methods that Simpson urges us to adopt invite us to experience reading as a "meditative" act in which our epistemological and ultimately our ontological relations to historical material are both tentative and multi-directional, he doesn't afford this kind of flexibility to presentist readers. Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession
King recommends meditative driving as producing an increase in energy levels, greater creativity and higher sexual potency.

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