| Over all the legal neighbourhood there hangs, like some great veil of rust or gigantic cobweb, the idleness and pensiveness of the long vacation. |
| With Petrarch, the arrival of the spirit results from the poet's pensiveness, and does not testify to a past that can be felt by all. |
| They are joyful images in vibrant greens and yellows, but at the same time they evoke a pensiveness in viewers that some might find hard to shake off. |
| She often has an inner pensiveness of expression, the same inwardness of mood that is communicated by Botticelli's saints. |
| But Salvator was capable of pensiveness, of faith, and of fear. |
| Her pensiveness was ultimately balanced by the relaxed ebullience of a performer who has nothing left to prove. |
