pensive
Example Sentences
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Or it could simply indicate that collectors feel safer splurging on a household-name artist like Rembrandt, a Renaissance man famed for his pensive, realistic self-portraits in earthen hues.
A few blocks inland, the vibes are less pensive, more effusive at the Fleuria — Los Angeles’ first romance book truck.
From Los Angeles Times
On Thorns, the pensive opening song of The Clearing, she even berates herself for "making a song and dance" about the break-up that inspired Wolf Alice's previous album, Blue Weekend.
From BBC
“Flashing fish, lavish lily, megalomaniacal mosquito, pensive poet,” goes his thinking.
And here's the thing: while they are all winners, they had the demeanour of those with pensive worry.
From BBC
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