pensively's Usage Examples:

An armed and armored Achilles gazes pensively to the right with one hand on his hip.

The song starts after a short introduction, pensively, in a minor key, with the solo voice which is joined by a simple ostinato-like.

consisting of a spare, descending modal melody introduced by violin, pensively explored in duet with cello and piano accompaniment.

It shows a man, manacled, on a stone bench and looking pensively or plaintively upward.

yonder green valley, where streamlets meander, When twilight is fading I pensively rove, Or at the bright noontide in solitude wander Amid the dark shades.

painting depicts the adolescent Pyle looking blankly ahead—or instead pensively and longingly—with a butterfly landing on his shirt.

famous example is Shakespeare's monologue "All the world's a stage" that pensively summarizes seven phases of human life.

the rear of the painting, naked but for his spectacles, looking down pensively at Preece.

Andrew Farach-Colton of Gramophone wrote, "Piston's Concerto (1957) opens pensively, quickly builds to an aching climax (beginning around 4'00") with the.

1810), which featured a "relief of a classically robed man leaning pensively on an altar ‘To Gratitude.

The video clip features Amos driving a car and pensively moving around a park, sidewalks, along the seaside and cliffs while wearing.

The enlightened tourist walks away pensively, with no trace of pity for the fisherman, only a little envy.

In After, the couple are flushed: the man is pensively pulling up his breeches, while the woman clings to the man, her bonnet.

singled out two characters for praise: Innovindel, an elf who talks "pensively" of her long life in contrast to the short lived humans, and Obould the.

"McClennan, for his part, reflected pensively that they had indeed been forced to 'bottle it up and go'".

Then, when Ji-hye pensively reveals her mother's story to him, tears stream down his face.

" Coffee is poured, windows are gazed at pensively, tractors idle".

Queen Victoria stands on a tall pedestal facing South, "looking a little pensively over the square," according to Nikolaus Pevsner.

The final shot shows her pensively smoking a cigarette.

Andy stares pensively into the distance.