pensiveness's Usage Examples:

last great waltzes and it brims with youthful vigour yet with hints of pensiveness and poignant moments as was common among his last works.

conventional name suggests, many have taken the posture to indicate sadness or pensiveness, and thus to interpret the rectangular object on the viewer's right as.

The mood of the two drinkers and of the three musicians is one of pensiveness, and the whole painting is pervaded with melancholy.

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the heavy pensiveness of his mood over the forgotten soup, were touched and moved by the deep.

The group's playing on this number really reflects pensiveness.

Over this the initially ebullient vocal line fades into quiet pensiveness, as the artificial frog muses that it would rather be with real frogs.

or sprawl across the tombstones in an attitude of grief, nostalgia, pensiveness, or anguish, like fellow mourners at the grave, or ghosts sociably mingling.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and that scarcely discharged the pensiveness of our unrelief of bank work.

portraiture in the Jacobean era is characterized by the "quietness, pensiveness, and gentle charm of mood" seen in his portraits of Catherine Killigrew.

The murmuring of Latin text and pensiveness of mood is much alike the first movement.

camera then pans into several citizens in the city expressing a sense of pensiveness: an elderly couple, a man in his car, a couple who have just finished.

Jackson, (1996) singled out Chodzko from the other YBA's for his art's "pensiveness", involving "quiet acts of infiltration.

"Instead of the thoughtless levity of childhood he possessed the gravity, pensiveness, and melancholy of mature life.

His air of extreme pensiveness and his great pallor had given his father the idea that he would not.

emotions of happiness and sadness, but even the complex emotions of desire, pensiveness, gentleness, and frustration.

Synonyms:

contemplativeness; thoughtfulness; meditativeness;

Antonyms:

unkindness; tactlessness; thoughtlessness;