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How to use pensiveness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pensiveness? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The soldier carried the man away, a strange hard but confused look on his face with a hint of pensiveness.
Her pensiveness was ultimately balanced by the relaxed ebullience of a performer who has nothing left to prove.
She was able to hold a continuous level pensiveness and reserve.
She often has an inner pensiveness of expression, the same inwardness of mood that is communicated by Botticelli's saints.
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.
The abstractness and pensiveness of that question suggest something of what makes Allawi an interesting person but also what makes him a frustratingly ineffectual politician.
But I feel an impulse to scribble wordly words, to stand in a silk hat beside the statue of Liberty and gaze out upon the Atlantic with a Carlylian pensiveness.
But the stillness of Arbus's still reins in the movingness of the movie, bringing it back to earth, to the pensiveness and the irremediable pastness of the photograph.
We left quietly so as not to disturb the widow's pensiveness.
Examples from Classical Literature
He had grown accustomed to these moments of pensiveness on his mother's part.
In this her prime of existence and bloom of beauty they but subdued vivacity to pensiveness.
Shall we find in their artwork any of that pensiveness and yearning for the dead, which fills the chants of their tragedy?
Selim shivered all at once and woke up from his pensiveness.
True, to the present time,' Mr Boffin assented, with his former pensiveness, as he took his seat upon his settle.
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.
The look of pensiveness on Joes face changed into one of longing.
Over all the legal neighbourhood there hangs, like some great veil of rust or gigantic cobweb, the idleness and pensiveness of the long vacation.
But Salvator was capable of pensiveness, of faith, and of fear.
Enwezor has conceived the Biennale as a sequence of intersecting 'filters' that compel us to look backwards as much as forwards, in a spirit of pensiveness more than of zeal.
The expressive blend of melancholia and pensiveness of Gollon's biblical women communicates this power and powerlessness incarnated in their hands.
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