pensiveness

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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

It may be pensiveness or it may be dread or sadness from some emotional loss that can’t be helped.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2013

While he sat thus, came a formal tap at the door, and his son entered, looking sublimely good and respectable, pensive with a pensiveness on which one grows comfortably fat.

From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)