pensiveness

Example Sentences

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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

And in Lulu’s moments of pensiveness and quiet fear, Ms. Petersen sings with a tender vulnerability that catches you off guard.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2015

It gave her an air of pensiveness, of submission, the more striking in a person of so much character.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth