Sentence example with the word 'pensiveness'

pensiveness

absorption, castle-building, contemplativeness, dreamery, dreaming, fantasying, melancholiness, musing, profound thought, romantic melancholy, thoughtfulness

Definition n. persistent morbid meditation on a problem

Last update: July 1, 2015


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His voice was low and clear, and of a somewhat melancholy cadence, going well with the pensiveness of fine, deeply fringed eyes.   [Please select]

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She looked up at Richard with a delightful effect of pensiveness from beneath the sweeping brim of her cavalier hat.   [Please select]

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"I knew the late Lord Blanchemain--I knew him fairly well," she mentioned, always with a certain pensiveness.   [Please select]

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Then, after an instant of pensiveness, "So you're already laid low by her beauty."'   [Please select]

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Why, I'd like to get where I could stretch an' holler without disturbin' the pensiveness of some dude in a dress suit.   [Please select]

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So Leslie sat there, pausing in her sewing, and gazing idly at the sky, with a girl's quick pensiveness and thick-coming fancies, as she mused.   [Please select]

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He had a thin, pale, rather pleasing hatchet-face, framed in the curls of a golden periwig, a sensitive mouth and pale blue eyes that lent his countenance a dreamy expression, a rather melancholy pensiveness.   [Please select]

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