pensiveness

Example Sentences

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Her self-aware, pensiveness glimmers against the soft strumming of guitars and strings in "I Hate It Here."

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2024

Tom Berenger, who plays Longstreet in the film, brilliantly emphasizes his character’s brooding, deep-eyed pensiveness.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023

The big screen at Stadium Australia cut to Kerr barely a minute into the match, and went back to her several times during the game as she looked at various stages of pensiveness.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023

In any given conversation, her saucer eyes suggest a dozen different moods – pensiveness, outrage, hilarity.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2018

He was feeling that touch of pensiveness which comes with a sense of vanishing pleasures.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore