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"contemplation" Definitions
  1. the act of thinking deeply about something
  2. the act of looking at something in a calm and careful way

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There are five stages of change, Morin wrote: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
And in "Contemplation" (1937/8) a single figure looks off to the side as if in contemplation, much as, in one studio photograph, Rothko contemplates his abstract paintings.
They offer internships and quiet retreats for study and contemplation.
Isolation encourages contemplation — but can it offer respite as well?
It's Sunday so we stroll not shuffle, because contemplation reigns.
He appears to be immersed in contemplation, melancholy but determined.
The hospital, by necessity, imposes time for contemplation and intimacy.
Made from humble ingredients, they invite contemplation in stressful times.
Comparisons and contemplation come naturally when drinking any good wine.
Darrell stood to the side, alone, head hung in contemplation.
It creates a space for contemplation and mourning and beauty.
But the spiritual life requires action as well as contemplation.
Ah, the contemplation of the probably unattainable impeachment and conviction.
It's a sobering finding, one definitely requiring further contemplation and action.
Reaction, not contemplation, is most people's reflexive response to political art.
The chapel's advertised uses — weddings, memorial services, contemplation — are likewise commonplace.
The otherwise bare rooms allow contemplation for those who seek it.
Concentration or contemplation will not give you the experience of transcending.
In this merited exhibition, they have found a space for contemplation.
They generally do not require contemplation, and what's wrong with that?
It forces contemplation of what we really have in the end.
The very contemplation of the prospect is a wellspring of inspiration.
The guided contemplation of body and self provides significant psychological benefits.
The mere contemplation of the in-app mortgage calculator gave me vertigo.
Mercury retrograde begins, putting you in a place of reflection and contemplation.
The treehouse was a place of refuge and contemplation, Mr. Burgess said.
The January 15th game creates a sense of quiet contemplation about death.
Candace lacks Peterson's sense of gallows humor and Rudolf's laid back contemplation.
The beauty of images like this one lies in their quiet contemplation.
So far, 13 officials have been served letters of contemplation of suspension.
We're told Jason will get an ACD .. Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal.
We want this to be a place of both contemplation and amplification.
Virtually every corner of the hotel's public rooms invites exploration and contemplation.
Artists usually depict the characters in states of calm contemplation or discussion.
Perhaps he did it very quietly, the better to allow for contemplation.
Normally I go to the woods for retreat, for contemplation and invigoration.
Prayer and contemplation can reduce stress and build emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Triplets for a single parent who is deaf is — well beyond contemplation.
They provoke physical reactions, and do not leave much room for contemplation.
He pioneered a form of spiritual activism that blended contemplation with confrontation.
I present them now, with a whisker of editing, for your contemplation.
"People's Republic" is ultimately a contemplation of internet fame and social isolation.
This exhibition explores the contemplation of time, identity, memory, music and language.
So in this moment with years of contemplation, I am Stopping it.
To me, the destruction of contemplation is the existential threat to our humanity.
We hope participants will gain a better understanding of themselves through personal contemplation.
The researchers studied the data on depressive symptoms and reported contemplation of suicide.
It is a generous mode of design that demands contemplation instead of thrills.
Also, it will inspire too much commotion in a site meant for contemplation.
" They are absorbed in solitary contemplation in Paul Wolff's "Florence, on the Arno.
He wrote that during his contemplation of life, he refused to be morbid.
They take time, contemplation, editing, soul searching, and a little saving helps, too.
"Most other sports don't have that opportunity for contemplation and time," he said.
For Schopenhauer, a way to end both is through aesthetic and artistic contemplation.
It's my own exploration, my own contemplation, and where I've been led to.
For Murff, isolation and contemplation were threads of solidarity between the two images.
The drifts in between — "lonely, thoughtful spaces" — are designed to foster quiet contemplation.
In the Contemplation Room, a naked dancer gyrated while wearing large black wings.
With Panou's help, Burtynsky readied his gear, and then he fell into contemplation.
Compared to this space of openness and contemplation, other museums look utterly outdated.
And why would the realm of aesthetic making and contemplation be considered paradisiacal?
We're being dinged, notified, and clickbaited, which interrupts any sort of possibility for contemplation.
It kept knocking during sleep, during waking hours, during time of contemplation of self.
I thought the show came back strong and with new mysteries that demand contemplation.
New Year is a time for two things: terrible, life-altering hangovers, and contemplation.
"I want to develop some sort of contemplation practice," he tells The Creators Project.
But while he holds up simple objects for contemplation, Sherman holds up media representations.
Other artists have chosen less trafficked areas of the park for more quiet contemplation.
It was while she was writing of snow, in contemplation, that doubt seeped in.
Plath had none of the leisure for contemplation that we associate with male writers.
Archives and storage are thus more important than viewing or contemplation of individual images.
In Atlanta and St. Louis, though, those changes are just fodder for clubhouse contemplation.
They sit, stretch, lounge, stand, and are often lost in contemplation, their eyes averted.
Nor is it just their hushed contemplation of aloneness and connection that links them.
They take you on journeys through time and space, posing questions and rewarding contemplation.
What elevates Outer Wilds is how it confronts this tension between practicality and contemplation.
And all that stems from a pretty simple idea: Spend some time in contemplation.
The troubling part was how much serious contemplation I'd been devoting to my testicles lately.
But it's New Year's Day, the perfect time for some reasoned drinking, thinking, and contemplation.
VICE News travelled to Mecca to see firsthand why the trip evokes such intense contemplation.
Only being able to move one space at a time encourages this kind of contemplation.
You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God.
"The inspiration behind the project is rooted in contemplation of human perception," the creator said.
He bought it in contemplation of marriage, and she was quick to fork it over.
Most Muslims now and throughout history observed an Islam of contemplation, piety and inner goodness.
Is he leaning against his desk in contemplation or pushing off towards an unknown future?
Israel immediately said no, and, after little contemplation, consulted Frank, who also rejected the idea.
In the wilderness that was detention, Little St. Don entered a deep state of contemplation.
He spoke of his wish to combine contemplation with the "body work" of Werner Erhard.
Every block offers a moment of contemplation, every corner a revelation, every step an interruption.
Through solo contemplation, you will receive lots of information about yourself and those around you.
One young man nodded in contemplation, his brown eyes fixed on me in deep concentration.
Winnipeg Journal WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Canadian Museum for Human Rights offers many opportunities for contemplation.
It can also refer to the artist's contemplation, at 68, of his own looming mortality.
"The depths of my addiction took me to not contemplation, but attempting suicide," he said.
It does not offer the viewer an easy spectacle, but expects engagement, compassion, and contemplation.
He provokes reflection in his contemplation of everyday objects: a window, a statue, a notebook.
I love churches — houses of contemplation, spiritual inquiry and ethical information — of almost every kind.
But in its contemplation of different kinds of lost innocence, it's also pondering the fall.
They experience the world in a kind of floating ecstasy underpinned by companionship and contemplation.
So often we see solitary contemplation as simply the correct way to engage with nature.
The private contemplation of art becomes tied to hoards of strangers moving throughout the city.
After some contemplation, I realized why the journalist included this seemingly insignificant tidbit of information.
Magnificent yet delicate, the pieces in this series call for a contemplation of ghost emissaries.
"The risks include information collection which goes beyond the reasonable contemplation of a user," Gupta said.
The logical extension of this line of reasoning is that contemplation of racial murder is widespread.
My intent is to elicit contemplation and conversation about the 'stuff' we choose to live with.
As a former nun, her life of isolation provides the perfect environment for prayer and contemplation.
But Sunde's ecological perspective shifts the viewer's relation to the site from aesthetic to critical contemplation.
Sports as metaphor for life is a simple enough premise, but Fordjour pushes his contemplation further.
The compositions that Sally Decker makes as Multa Nox are filled with gestures that force contemplation.
Donald Trump took his time, slowly folding a paper of notes and falling into deep contemplation.
Like, legit rage and contemplation of taking my rifle and butt stroking the person to death.
The town has set up Adirondack chairs for quiet contemplation of the silent, majestic St. Lawrence.
The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action.
He curses a lot and often wears a look of deep contemplation that borders on exasperation.
To consider the offer, Mr. Chavez traveled to a Catholic monastery in New Mexico for contemplation.
Self-driving experts are urging renewed contemplation of when fully autonomous cars go on the road.
A similar sense of quiet contemplation may well be what differentiates V.R. from its immediate predecessors.
They don't distract from the specter of suffering; they insist upon — and help in — its contemplation.
Walden Pond itself, the object of Thoreau's patient contemplation, was filled with lane lines and buoys.
I found something so rare it feels sacred — a digital space that values private, quiet contemplation.
People are supposed to return them to the installation once their moment of contemplation is over.
Cohen said after the election he had no meetings or contemplation of securing Russian investment money.
He led 50,000 people into silent contemplation, with only the occasional sound of a baby crying.
Church is a time for quiet contemplation, prayer, and the greatest dance hits from the '90s.
"People have the idea that a monastery is a place of serenity and contemplation," Cohen said.
His work has the ability to take one to a place of contemplation, curiosity and awe.
This memorial is not a singular sculpture, but rather a site for public contemplation and understanding.
At the final bell, Pacquiao dropped to his knees in his corner for a moment of contemplation.
You are rewarded with not just a riotous good time, but a deft contemplation of American teenhood.
And if there was violence, there was also lyricism — and contemplation, none quieter than Drummond's abstract images.
So there never was any contemplation on her part that I wouldn't be part of this show.
Action planet Mars also inhabits this intuitive sign, slowing our actions with better contemplation of our feelings.
In addition to workshops on listening and collaboration, the show is a serene location for peaceful contemplation.
The densely populated landscape of the central panel has enabled the dreamiest contemplation, and the wildest interpretations.
" Cardozo continued, "Intention not otherwise revealed may be presumed to hold in contemplation the reasonable and probable.
I loved how it mixed flamboyance with a hard materialistic silver sensationalism that demanded my aesthetic contemplation.
The people he paints are often alone, like the insomniac, lost in contemplation, looking out the window.
Isaacson toggles between Leonardo's works of art and his contemplation of nature, tracing the connections between them.
Wine invites contemplation — of the world, of our place in it and sometimes just of wine itself.
There is no single answer for everyone — and it takes a bit of self-reflection and contemplation.
Laughter gives way to wonder as a cosmic coda makes audible Aristotle's ideal of self-sufficient contemplation.
Meetings with staff counselors led to serious contemplation about her addiction, strengthening her resolve to conquer it.
My contemplation of the future of "all thumbs" came to me on the No. 1 uptown local.
But after a year of quiet contemplation, Mr. Soth decided to return to the life he knew.
Instead they invite patient engagement and contemplation, verging on reverie, and they can be very, very soulful.
None of these pastimes lend themselves particularly well to quiet contemplation, or to crafting long written musings.
The original play is a metatheatrical contemplation of life and death in a small New England town.
In these nudes, everything is arranged to achieve the effect that its contemplation was intended to trigger.
Installation, games, and K11 space aside, the film Geomancer stands alone as a singular production for contemplation.
Think of Bilal as the mysterious figure at the gate between neo-soul contemplation and jazz digression.
Together, the images present a serene yet bold contemplation of identity against the backdrop of modernity and tradition.
This followed a weekend of contemplation after the Brexit vote, which failed to alleviate political and economic uncertainty.
The practice dates back thousands of yearsand is traditionally seen as a meditative exercise and vehicle for contemplation.
These images are ideas or iconic symbols having their origin in inner experiences of intuition, feeling and contemplation.
These themes elevate the protagonist and the story of The Prisoner to a higher plane of social contemplation.
It is significant that they resembled many of today's white nationalists, fired up in anger and lacking contemplation.
After much contemplation, I became convinced that, on a moral level, life was either hallowed or it wasn't.
It's been my way of understanding, it's been my way of celebration, it's been my way of contemplation.
Which is a shame, because the topics she has chosen to explore are worthy of more considered contemplation.
After all the headlines, I wonder though -- is enough real investigation and contemplation of new technology taking place?
It was an attempt to bring the spiritual contemplation possible in the desert into a city, she said.
But no, we do not have a contemplation right now that we would sell it as a standalone.
We have a very different contemplation for how we evaluate what games and rights are worth to us.
The mood shifts from contemplation to creation in the nearby forest clearing containing Baan Kang Wat artisan village.
This woman had been in the same situation just months before and, without much contemplation, aborted her child.
These qualities are evident in the work on show at Tate Britain; each rewards time spent in contemplation.
It motivates me to make something that is worth looking at, where the time in contemplation has value.
This burnished posthumous production is a worthy addition to Cohen's catalog: a contemplation on art, love and faith.
I would choose your ballets over contemplation of Cambodia any day if only I were given the choice.
But it treads all over holy and formerly holy sites with nary a moment for wonder or contemplation.
"Meditation Square" conflates contemplation with adoration; it features photographs of meditating recruits below a toppled statuette of Saddam Hussein.
Chelsea Manning reportedly posted a pair of tweets Sunday night that hinted suicide contemplation that have since been deleted.
Mr Knausgaard provides the internet in reverse: a slow-moving contemplation of everything from the trivial to the profound.
And that Trump spit out his verdict with the careful contemplation of a carnival fortune teller machine should matter.
"Mornings might be for coffee and contemplation, but Chief Jim Hopper is not coming to rescue us," Cicilline said.
Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, contemplation and prayer, began Sunday and will run through Tuesday, July 5.
Though Meyer-Ebrecht's objects are colorful and visually enticing, Uprising requires sustained contemplation to decipher its quiet political comments.
They create individual panels that allow slightly more contemplation than a movie or TV show, which is always moving.
But Croix is just looking at his erection with the same kind of contemplation as the viewer studying it.
This is night sky black metal, ripe for stargazing and contemplation—utterly cosmic black metal for an uncertain age.
He says this contemplation kicked off his latest documentary, and he ponders it throughout his series almost in passing.
The government's penchant for chin-stroking contemplation is a reflection of the difficulty it has in getting anything done.
The spokesperson added that Hoppy was offered a plea deal known as a family adjournment in contemplation of dismissal.
I wanted each work to have more room to speak, to move me the way "Contemplation Source Room" did.
Two ex-Googlers are creating a commotion with a Plain Jane re-contemplation of the standard issue vending machine.
Today Venus reenters emotional Water sign Pisces, and you'll likely want to spend more time alone in quiet contemplation.
Their gentle incline deliberately slows your pace, encouraging contemplation and, potentially, a spiritual feeling, much like an immersion baptism.
"Mornings might be for coffee and contemplation, but Chief Jim Hopper is not coming to rescue us," he warned.
Levy, a professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, teaches an elective course called Information & Contemplation.
But after months of contemplation, I decided to upgrade to the Chase Sapphire Reserve — the newer and pricier option.
And when it takes an unexpected turn midway through, it becomes an intriguing contemplation of what makes us human.
Few of us regularly explore that fine line between contemplation and collapse, but maybe we should visit more often.
Others, like Lamar Alexander and Lisa Murkowski, acted out a pantomime of judicious contemplation before falling into lock step.
The contemplation of writing and the loss of integrity in our literary life form the heart of the novel.
They filed past the plain pine plywood coffin in the grand Capitol Rotunda, some weeping, most in quiet contemplation.
It's a place made for slow living and contemplation, which, Campanaro suggests, allows you to see the expected differently.
Discussions of technology's promise were leavened with contemplation of its darker side effects, such as fraud and data breaches.
It is a place of elegance and quiet contemplation, and as rarefied spaces go, there are few more rarefied.
Levy, a professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, teaches an elective course called Information & Contemplation.
At the same time, the Danes have no trouble stepping outside worldly realms and into zones of rapt contemplation.
He mansplains all this to Agathe, who falls into states of rapturous contemplation far more readily than he does.
Otherwise Paul Ryan is just going to have to retire to a life of contemplation in a Tibetan monastery.
In her quiet contemplation, the artist attempts to make sense of her transnational identity without any hint of resolution.
Which brings us, roughly, to Sunday -- when Sanford, after several weeks of public contemplation, officially entered the presidential race.
Rather than a party album or even a romantic album, Dedicated is an album about aloneness, contemplation, self-scrutiny.
What drew him to the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky was the opportunity for a life of quiet contemplation.
The exhibition's title, "A Long Dress," comes from Gertrude Stein's prose-poem "Tender Buttons," a contemplation of everyday objects.
"Touch Me Not" offers immersion in that strangeness and invites contemplation of some of the varieties of physical difference.
Meanwhile, the paintings in A Museum Show, with two exceptions, capture moments of quiet contemplation — or total, #EmptyMet calm.
In the end, the whale swims into a hole without hesitation while the girl floats above it in contemplation.
Including a selection of musical scores, drawings, reading nook, and a video, Ensemble offers an oasis for contemplation and exploration.
The repercussions of Mr Trump's victory will be enormous—they seem to grow bigger with every passing second of contemplation.
The uptick in violence this week coincides with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a time of fasting and contemplation.
The vocal takes on the first four Junior Boys records were gleaming, the products of serious contemplation and expensive microphones.
The concrete interior space is womblike, presenting a quiet, secluded space for personal contemplation in the middle of the cemetery.
The project, entitled Gromm•It, combines the strange satisfaction of the hole-puncher with a contemplation of the industrial aesthetic.
And both Piver and Cohen agree that contemplation of death should be avoided for those with trauma or psychological instability.
In the revisionist view, Toscanini rushed through passages that other conductors would turn into contemplation or mystery or sheer loveliness.
And it looks sort of like a regular essay but tends to feature a higher proportion of legwork to contemplation.
I proposed it to alter the Faneuil Hall marketplace into a site of contemplation of an atrocity against black people.
It is a time for contemplation, devotion and remembrance of God, especially through the reading or recitation of the Quran.
The film is a contemplation of the loneliness, tension and anxiety of outsiders pursuing a piece of the American dream.
Even in its modern incarnation, mindfulness is best understood as a skill, one acquired through hours of sometimes uncomfortable contemplation.
Yosemite Valley, a place of creative contemplation and soulful retreat will fill a gallery with its resplendent visuals this autumn.
Whichever you choose, don't forget to make time for quiet contemplation of the natural world, or your inspiration will drop.
On Main Street, the skeleton of a mall that burned down last year presents its charred remains for dismal contemplation.
By painting the walls this color, Bernstein transforms the gallery from a space of contemplation to a state of emergency.
The conversation between photography, the dance performance, and the painting is a contemplation of the relationship between formalism and empathy.
Sufi practice focuses on the renunciation of worldly things, purification of the soul and the mystical contemplation of God's nature.
Thus, the "stupid question" at the White House should not be about the possibility but the contemplation of a pardon.
The crowds were ceaseless all summer, as they are much of the year — bobbing, weaving, snapping away, denying quiet contemplation.
Everything, including the epic music and the thick sound design, ensures that there is never any space for quiet contemplation.
He also cites evidence that uplifting stories about sacrifice boost empathy, as do various kinds of contemplation — prayer, meditation, yoga.
Its relation to something like utopia feels less like abstract contemplation, and more like the lived pursuit of visceral yearning.
At the same time, having acquired the patina of art, they hang on gallery walls as objects of aesthetic contemplation.
Richard Rohr, a Franciscan friar and prolific author who runs the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, was surprised when his publisher told him that his books on Christian contemplation and the power of liturgy are most popular with young evangelical men — who see a direct connection between changing worship and changing politics.
The dead body was also, for many centuries and in many different places, the subject of art, contemplation, and metaphysical meaning.
But the resulting thunderous applause was another reminder that in this room, entertainment superseded information, catharsis overrode ambiguity, outrage overcame contemplation.
Each canvas on view is similarly suggestive, breeding contemplation and curiosity of puzzles that we may never understand with utmost certainty.
If there is a godswood in a Southern space, it isn't exactly religious and is instead a place for deep contemplation.
But after some contemplation, he ultimately decides to give Hannah B. a rose and says goodbye to Bri, Catherine and Nina.
At least since Chrisitanity's fourth century, priests of that faith have been deploring the revelry that distracts people from spiritual contemplation.
The choreographer and company founder Shannon Gillen pairs moments of quiet contemplation with bouts of recklessness in her search for answers.
A limestone cliff in a nature preserve on Gotland's west coast, Hogklint — like many of the island's scenic spots — invites contemplation.
Read more: After months of contemplation, I finally upgraded to the Chase Sapphire Reserve with a 2500-minute phone call.25.
At last, one of them walked to a marble bench opposite the tomb and sat in a pose of reverent contemplation.
Dismissals of passive contemplation are often parroted in news releases from museums anxious to appear more inclusive by showing relational art.
And like the reality of sex, Moan's emotional tenors range widely, including sadness, joy, mourning, discovery, delight, nostalgia, humor, and contemplation.
The memorial garden and tidal pool, at the same time, insure that it's recognized as hallowed ground, a place for contemplation.
Religious contemplation is at least plausibly derided in these paintings, although overly quoted as a nominal theme and source of imageries.
By placing visitors in a position of self-contemplation, she hoped to encourage them to question their beliefs in those systems.
Send us your own entry if you think you've got something that will bring delight or deeper contemplation to us all.
She barely touched upon the earthy heft available in the organ's lower register; this was an elevated, disembodied contemplation, patiently celestial.
"Break Stuff" encompasses sounds and spaces, speed and contemplation, curves and angles, methodical processes and brilliant impulses; it never stops thinking.
The three agreed that many usages were self-aggrandizing, and often frivolous; they rarely correlated with an act requiring considerable contemplation.
Her nimble pen-and-ink illustrations capture children's loose, joyful movements and the stillness of faces marked by contemplation and grief.
"The values of the monastery — meditation, mindfulness, silence, contemplation and community — are being secularized and redone as resorts," said Ms. McGroarty.
But upon contemplation, I've decided against using it, as the connotations with gun violence make it a less-than-ideal entry.
Or I could dedicate my remaining Quibis to study and contemplation, to prepare myself for the inevitable Quibi of my death.
He described his movies as the "cinema of contemplation," in which the cameras "eavesdrop on life" to expose his characters' psychology.
Salanic mostly plays José with quiet but weighted contemplation, but here he is buoyant with youth and the prospect of romance.
"Mankind, which in Homer's time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself," he writes.
On the other hand, the idea of challenging petrified art world hierarchies and protocols of exclusion with active contemplation never ends.
" His big picture: After a lot of contemplation he's decided his next job should be to "prepare the next generation of leaders.
That an album hardly meant for aesthetic contemplation turns out so pleasurable regardless is proof plenty that the intentional fallacy is evil.
When the world goes crazy, sometimes the only thing you can do is laugh at a beautiful man in deep contemplation, shirtless.
One could question the meaningfulness of this contemplation, though I believe embodiment to be an effective way to examine a social phenomenon.
Taylor Swift's new album announcement — which includes a title, release date, and album art — was not something people embraced with quiet contemplation.
"We have slowed the increasing growth in that in contemplation of taking on increasing consumer credit through the card business," he said.
And because this show was made for cheering at the screen, not inspiring contemplation about the mommy wars, she gets it all.
From sunrise to sunrise the video offers a dreamy trip that opens doors for contemplation and to emotions the track might evoke.
That order was extended again in October, when Hoppy agreed to a plea deal involving a family adjournment in contemplation of dismissal.
If shiny surfaces really were conducive to contemplation, then Midtown Manhattan, with its concentration of glass skyscrapers, would be a meditation mecca.
The experience of viewing the artwork during a commute creates an atmosphere of contemplation, and also highlights the accessibility of the artworks.
Both of these branches come from the same artistic place of introverted contemplation, playfulness, and an almost zen-like approach to music.
Fathers and sons, solitary men paddling against big waves, the contemplation of decay, men sweating and panting on their way to redemption.
There's a generous transparency about Washington's portraiture, a compound of sympathy and contemplation that suggests a warm variation on classic Brechtian remove.
The monks at St Joseph's were upset when, after a decade of stern asceticism as their abbot, he began to promote contemplation.
"Relocating to this enchanting hamlet," she says, "has opened a beautiful interweaving of life and art, nature and culture, community and contemplation."
She catches them in moments of relative stillness, moments revealed not in tales of wild adventure but of inward conflict, indecisive contemplation.
"Its goal," he writes, summing up Leo Strauss's contemptuous attitude, "is not contemplation but 'universal enlightenment' " — the scare quotes say it all.
Sally Mann's REMEMBERED LIGHT: Cy Twombly in Lexington (Abrams/Gagosian Gallery, $50) demands exactly the opposite form of attention: extended quiet contemplation.
The retired human-resources manager sits on a folding chair and gazes around in contemplation, surrounded by shade trees and chirping birds.
" Ikehata considers the photographer's position in modern society as one of contemplation, reflecting the things "can be supplemented by [viewers] with imagination.
Was the empathy test—heaven forbid—also here, for those kicked into contemplation by the reveal that the sick are people too?
Transitioning from simple piano-centered pop to ambient jazz and later to dance hits, "Fail Forward" is an invitation to blissful contemplation.
The piece inspires contemplation of the real nature of a chair, and what it might look like without any bells and whistles.
ET Thursday -- the exact time the gunman began his rampage a week ago -- for a moment of contemplation, prayer, reflection or meditation.
Returning to The General Jungle's drawings, it's obvious that the artists savor their park strolls as moments of heavy, almost mawkish contemplation.
In every gallery, benches intended for the quiet contemplation of modernist masterpieces were co-opted by smartphone users hunched over their devices.
Fortunately, moments of contemplation are rarely afforded by a high-adrenaline staging that turns all-American angst into high and lowdown comedy.
His study was the metaphysical idea of Magic, which found expression not only in performance, but in practice, commentary, design and contemplation.
There's a reason Buddhist monks meditate on charnel grounds, and why Cicero said the contemplation of death was the beginning of philosophy.
During the second layover, I stayed in the terminal, enjoying directionless contemplation, feeling as if I'd been stationed in an expansive womb.
But the show's challenges to contemplation and stamina turn out to intensify a deep, and deepening, sense of the artist's singular powers.
A glorious moment came on "Contemplation," one of Shorter's early works, first recorded with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1961.
Like so much art of the African diaspora, salsa is made not for typical museum-style contemplation, but for motion and participation.
Not all would-be Yoricks, wishing their visage exhumed from the graveyard for contemplation by the Prince of Denmark, were so lucky.
Her previous pop work was driven by a jittery energy, and though this record is often geared toward contemplation, it's still lively too.
But considering that autumn is typically considered a time for solemnity and contemplation, it will be decidedly less fun than hot girl summer.
There was so much happening with the music, and I felt that I needed to have a moment of contemplation outside of it.
When all the parts fit together, there is no ambiguity, nothing for us to reflect upon in that place between contemplation and bewilderment.
In that book, written in vigorous, keenly observed prose, Merton described his gradual and unusual path toward a life dedicated to spiritual contemplation.
He planted gnarled trees and built up rocky islets, creating what he called the "Humble Administrator's Garden", a fine place for tranquil contemplation.
The sequel actually slows down the story a bit, with a lower jokes-per-second rate and a little more time for contemplation.
Obedience and motherhood are repeating themes, which were reinforced in the pocket-sized books of hours used by medieval women for religious contemplation.
Inside their new building, gazing out at green hills from nooks designed to aid contemplation, Arm employees are already attempting to design them.
The vague solutions that Eno proposes—"thoughtful and creative social and political action"—involve, not spontaneous action, but careful contemplation and meaningful collaboration.
Acid's sacred, expanding visions — especially those tied to inward contemplation — resonate with Fontana's 1951 "Manifesto tecnico dello spazialismo" (or "Technical Manifesto of Spatialism").
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
Watching Poincheval's journey through time forms a point of contemplation for the viewer, who can only imagine the artist's journey beyond their vision.
The passive pleas and quiet contemplation of "Pray You Catch Me" only need a few songs to boil over into white-hot indignation.
That may be true, but it also raises the question of whether personal suffering forms the best framework for aesthetic — and commercial — contemplation.
"We're in 90 million homes," he added, "so no, we do not have a contemplation now that we would launch as a standalone."
Even if you keep with the theme of couplehood, a deep contemplation may turn up a complete lack of desire to pair up.
Separated by a barrier, men and women sat in contemplation, awaiting a sermon by Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani, a well-known hardliner.
The ubiquity of ghosts and spirits throughout the novel appears to signal, at first, a contemplation of the genocidal toll of Western expansion.
After a packed week of shows and events, there was little surprise that some guests were seeking a moment of solace and contemplation.
There would be no need for written briefs, oral arguments, contemplation or written opinions if we already knew how each justice will decide.
While the pieces are unremarkable and the space has no decorative flourishes, the room has a bright, comforting feeling of equilibrium and contemplation.
Saenredam and his paintings of church interiors, which can appear starchy and bland at a glance but, with contemplation, secrete an uncanny intensity.
In "Having My Cake," a contemplation of her difficulty understanding proverbs becomes a syntax-shuffling close reading of the one in the title.
My street was not one for quiet contemplation — music from bars and restaurants started blasting at noon and didn't stop till 4 a.m.
It is also appropriate for this noisy moment, when contemplation rather than intrusion feels like a more generous way to engage your audience.
The vexing possibilities are worthy of contemplation over a fine wine: What is Bordeaux if it becomes inhospitable to cabernet franc or merlot?
He would prefer bottles that reward the sort of thoughtful contemplation that we ordinarily apply to many of the subjects in Wine School.
The killing of General Suleimani arose outside of any coherent policy context, and without adequate contemplation of near- or long-term strategic consequences.
In contemplation of the arrival of HAVs, the latest MMUCC includes explicit guidance for gathering information about crashes involving HAVs (p.121-124).
There is no room for sustained contemplation and little interest in public morality; everything collapses down to the level of the atomized individual.
And the visual overload in Venice makes for a setting uncomfortably like an art fair, designed for quick consumption without time for contemplation.
Similarly, the sense of rupture, discontinuity, and private space for grief and contemplation suggested by the phrase "in the wake of" seems inaccurate.
And when it takes an unexpected turn midway through, it becomes an intriguing (if a bit clunky) contemplation of what makes us human.
This contemplation would turn into animated babbling with attendant hand waving, and occasionally a little dance routine if I had a particularly good idea.
The prosperity gospel has taken a religion based on the contemplation of a dying man and stripped it of its call to surrender all.
On the Upper West Side, the cult-ish congregation Romemu hosts "Shabbatasana yoga and meditation" before formal services, which include contemplation and ecstatic dance.
As we enter this season of contemplation and reflection, we all have more than the usual number of everyday financial questions weighing on us.
Plus, if you're an introvert — or are just prone to long, fruitful periods of silent contemplation — being alone is an ideal way to recharge.
The comprehension studies we talked about earlier tell us little about the kind of reading we recognize as necessary for serious contemplation or analysis.
The artist duo caraballo-farman's "Contemplation Source Room" (2016) offers a space of temporary immersion in the artists' experience of the health care system.
"Today, presented for contemplation, these images remind us how the aesthetic qualities of a photograph are decidedly independent from the artist's will." she said.
Pure faith, contemplation, white light: surely these are the gifts of the Asian religions, or of medieval Christianity, of St. Francis with his birds.
This work evokes both the festive scene of a bullfight and the anxious contemplation of the bullfighter, elegantly rendered here with gently shimmering strings.
In New York, where Bobby Shmurda is from, there is an "Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal" provision, but it applies only in misdemeanor cases.
But it also used technology to give us something city dwellers often lack — a connection to nature and the time and space for contemplation.
But as I see it in this new strain of American poetry willing to engage with politics, it's not exactly contemplation that is happening.
They are independent entities, things that exist for themselves and for our contemplation, a synthesis of sensuality, rigor, intuition, and austerity – an engaging conundrum.
It's an instrument of massive surveillance and our dependence on it distorts our judgements and directs major decisions without deep human deliberation or contemplation.
No such strictures need apply to Mr. Currier's "Re-Formation," which is obviously intended for the concert stage and for contemplation rather than worship.
As odd as it may seem, it is difficult to make wine delicious enough to give pleasure but simple enough not to require contemplation.
The photographs of Mark Lyonat Elizabeth Houston Gallery document empty and abandoned car wash stations, turning them into spaces of contemplation rather than function.
There's a lot of light and space in between these high-flying melodies, each seemingly designed to offer a place for imagination and contemplation.
It's telling that he prefers to broadcast unfocused, typo-ridden thoughts on Twitter — a reactive medium that demands little in the way of contemplation.
Things that I see that include death spirituality are the ability of death to inspire contemplation, meditation, inspire community within groups, inspire individual identity.
The strength of Museum of Capitalism is that it doesn't need science fiction to provoke contemplation on an economic system that has become normalized.
But I could see that these devices were the enemy of contemplation, and that, obviously, I wasn't the first one to make this point.
He believes that what he does in his life is about leading people into contemplation to wake them up and enlighten them in some manner.
The Bible contains references to the moon turning into blood and some ultra-Orthodox Jews consider lunar eclipses ominous and a cause for moral contemplation.
With The Weather Café, Shearing, who has been making multimedia artworks for the past 10 years, wanted to create a space of contemplation and reflection.
The tradition began in the seventh century and commemorates the month when the Prophet Mohammed retreated to a cave north of Mecca for spiritual contemplation.
Plus, the campaign's strategy to get people to vote wasn't that different from getting people to stop smoking: precontemplation, contemplation, prep for action, action, maintenance.
Finally, after much, much, much research and even more contemplation and conversation with my family, I did have the surgery — and I'm glad I did.
Heier stated that "The Clearing," located at the scene of the crime, was never intended as an artwork but rather as a space of contemplation.
Speaking to Sky News, Harington said that he will celebrate the "emotional" finale one of two ways: with a bang, or alone in quiet contemplation.
Many of them include a recognition of the rising importance of public spaces that are geared more toward quiet and contemplation than efficiency and technology.
Ramadan is a holy period of fasting, prayer and contemplation for Muslims, but terror groups see the sacred period as conducive to carrying out strikes.
The upturned helmet on the monument becomes a void, the loss of our soldier, and empty vessel to place our contemplation for a veteran's sacrifice.
But "A Portrait" is already, in this early form, a work that demands to be heard and wrestled with, a space of pain and contemplation.
The Bryans, 41, have not competed on tour since the U.S. Open in September, stepping off the carousel of the tour for recuperation and contemplation.
Tere O'Connor presents a duet about hidden sexual desire in dance, and a new trio called "Transcendental Daughter," with dance as a form of contemplation.
And the sleepy town, with grand blue mountains in the distance, seems as worthy of contemplation as any—indeed, the tourism angle may be working.
There are a lot of scenes of contemplation, with O. J. crying, looking in the mirror, or staring at his football statue in the backyard.
Tanavoli's iconic Heech project, a calligraphic contemplation of the meaning of the word "nothing" in Farsi poetry and mystic intellectual thought, is well represented here.
According to U.S. News, the number of nuns who have dedicated their lives to contemplation has fallen from 55,000 in 2000 to 43,000 in 2014.
They are intended to be enjoyed with relish rather than sipped with contemplation, though they will not disappoint if you feel compelled to take notes.
"I'm afraid I haven't done anything—that I'm losing curiosity," he tells me following some extended contemplation, after I ask him what his fears are.
The gallery feels like a sanctuary, a place of worship, respect, and contemplation that fosters synchronicity between a collection of seemingly discordant and unrelated artworks.
Thus the duality in Faust — knowledge and destruction — blends with the duality of the Romantic mountaineer who is the model of, simultaneously, contemplation and conquest.
And it is this duality that I am most drawn to: that a private space of contemplation can also be a place of intense activation.
In that case I think you'd have to have, like, contemplation mode and lost-dog mode, and I guess those haven't been thought about yet.
The tragic events should give all of us, especially Republicans who continue to be silent about the shortcomings of the president, great pause for contemplation.
Equipped with projections, hammocks, and crashing 1960s rock and roll, the installation offers the perfect environment for chilled-out contemplation of all one has seen.
"We're kind of in middle ground here with a real contemplation of would you rather have a rate cut or an improving economy," Hogan said.
In the book's second-to-last image, "Fire Damaged House, Eastside, Detroit" (2017), a man sits on the front steps, in direct contemplation of the camera.
I'm not surprised, for Ctrl is what seekers of aesthetic difficulty call a grower, the kind of album whose stunning details blossom after prolonged microscopic contemplation.
Your growth is largely dependent on your relationship to contemplation, and you thrive in the presence of teachers who encourage you to look within for answers.
We have allowed content that shows contemplation or admission of self-harm because experts have told us it can help people get the support they need.
Guest hosting the talk show was a lifelong goal for the comedian, but with his newfound dedication to self-contemplation, Shandling eventually decided to move on.
What ensues is an exuberantly paced quest narrative that begs to be devoured like candy and refuses any hard questions or contemplation on the reader's part.
"Timeless" is perhaps the most direct contemplation of what's known as "the butterfly effect," in which messing with time can have unforeseen consequences, large and small.
Brexit, a decision that required long, calm contemplation of the facts, was rushed through in a whirlwind of emotional arguments, half-truths and dishonestly-painted buses.
Outside of human contact and the projection of our material desires, cars resting on the side of the road elicit an unexpectedly pleasant feeling of contemplation.
Certainly, they distracted from spiritual contemplation, but in the same way that the sight of a shooting star distracts from the ache of an empty belly.
"None of these artworks are really for passive contemplation," said Andrew Wilson, curator of British contemporary art and archives at Tate, who put together the show.
Alex Spiro, Smith's lawyer, and a Manhattan prosecutor said Wednesday that an adjournment-in-contemplation-of-dismissal agreement should be finalized at the next court appearance.
For contemplation was not a static thing, but a dynamic encounter, a back and forth: twice a day, for 15 or 20 minutes, opening, opening, opening.
" Noting a statue of a woman called "Contemplation of Justice" that stands besides the steps of the Supreme Court, Speier said, "We're tired of contemplating justice.
Some friends indicate that Ryan may be suffering from a bout of "Trump-haustion," but others believe there is serious contemplation of leaving Congress in 2018.
Minhaj talks about his childhood, his family, his experience as an Indian American and an emerging comedian, all with equals measures of contemplation and lively humor.
The great flying buttresses seeming to arc improbably out of the river were — and fortunately still are — an astonishment and a satisfactory substitute for closer contemplation.
I hope, and suspect, that Mill is right about this: that we all have the ability to find some durable joy in quietude, normalcy and contemplation.
Pursuits The novelist Reif Larsen seeks out sites of reverence in and around this sprawling city, places of quiet contemplation far from the gridlock and glamour.
Because I had arrived so early, I had been afforded, however unwittingly, a glimpse of Angkor's elemental purpose, as a place of quiet contemplation and worship.
Is it O.K. for me to sit through the service, in quiet contemplation, or should I sit, kneel and stand along with the rest of congregation?
Reclaimed from the drug smugglers and blissed-out backpackers, this tip of Thailand is now a haven for peaceful contemplation in gilded palaces and secret grottoes.
His malleable, ferocious voice and his taste for despondent political contemplation may remind you of the transgender singer Anohni and the anti-AIDS siren Diamanda Galás.
But the restless McEwan craved a closer alternative for exercise and contemplation, and found inspiration at Down House, the former home of Charles Darwin in Kent.
Your Money As we enter this season of contemplation and reflection, we all have more than the usual number of everyday financial questions weighing on us.
After such contemplation the students may take comfort from the fact that they are among the most pampered and highly privileged human beings on the planet.
Some terraces are devoted to quiet contemplation and yoga, while others have active features such as a putting green where employees can practice their golf swing.
In these, Hart examines the dichotomies of movement and stillness, contemplation and decision, and space and line, and the importance of the duality in the search.
On the day of my visit, the venue is bustling with empty-stomached patrons, some clad in suits, others in hoodies, surveying the scene in deep contemplation.
Installation view of the Artists in the GDR exhibition 63 marks the centennial since Rodin's death, but as I stood there in contemplation, I thought of Aleppo.
The town is small, so there is not much to do that isn't spiritual contemplation or sitting in the sun with a cup of coffee and pastry.
Chief Hopper's morning mantra on season one of Stranger Things — "mornings are for coffee and contemplation" — resonated with so many viewers that it became its own meme.
As romantic as we want to be while planning a wedding, marriage is a much more complicated legal contract that requires some serious worst-case-scenario contemplation.
More importantly, the show has become a richer contemplation of what happens when people really start to reckon with their limitations, whether they're inescapable or self-imposed.
Insatiable rarely fails to capitalize on the flashy and shocking sides of its hot-button narratives, but it regularly misses out on opportunities to invite viewer contemplation.
Friday afternoon, there is contemplation about your past and the ways it shapes your current behavioral patterns, as messenger Mercury meets with Pluto, the planet of secrets.
He spent much of his time in contemplation, rising at dawn and kneeling to face Mecca to pray so long as his body was up to it.
Nearly two dozen responded, including Carol Bove, Lisa Yuskavage and Yevgeniya Baras, and their often telling selections hang above little rugs and pillows that invite intimate contemplation.
Heimat is home with attitude, a mystical sense of connectedness that infuses and, in a way, locates identity in the self and in contemplation of the self.
"After much contemplation and prayer, we decided it was the right time for me to step aside and let someone else serve the Sixth District," Goodlatte wrote.
From a digital waterfall to an encased jazz trio, there were moments of quiet contemplation in the middle of a busy weekend of art, music, and festivities.
Over a Skype call, Mr. Osborne discussed how the opening of the first movement, "Regard du Père" ("Contemplation of the Father"), sets the entire work in motion.
Munoz, who was Nissan's highly respected chief performance officer, told colleagues he decided to leave after "some period of serious contemplation," Automotive News reported at the time.
How did you manage to get so many dynamic, colorful, energetic, and rich artworks into a space that's not enormous while retaining space for their individual contemplation?
Dealing with the transcendent, spiritual, and experiential aspects of time has the potential, as in "Mega Death," for the creation of astoundingly beautiful environments for quiet contemplation.
The prose poem in her hands can be a dream catcher, a travelogue, a report, an archive, a series of aphorisms, a contemplation of modernity, often simultaneously.
I was interrupted by one such contemplation of entering the space between life and death when I got the call that my grandfather had just arrived there.
There's a similarly adaptive quality to Mr. Frisell, 66, a giant of improvised music, whose smoldering, tube-amplified guitar sound never loses its air of positivist contemplation.
For those #blessed enough to get the day off, Presidents Day is a delightful weekend extension reserved for celebration (or contemplation) of presidents past, present, and future.
That dictum is the force behind the plot and presentation of "The Light Years," the Debate Society's leisurely and copiously detailed contemplation of the quest for illumination.
The leader told us he would read three phrases, and after each one, we'd prostrate ourselves on the ground, where we'd lie for five minutes in contemplation.
"The new moon in Taurus brings a time of contemplation for us regarding our self-care routines, since Taurus is a sign of comfort and stability," they say.
Most recently the duo released "Heaven", a visual allegory for utopia, "to show that paradise is all the colours of skin together, in nature, having contemplation" explains Jonathan.
Her displays of manic energy are intercut with bouts of thoughtful contemplation that tug at the heartstrings just enough to raise the stakes on this otherwise frivolous weekend.
Collectively, these projects invite a contemplation: how might organisms – whether human or other – create, survive, and inhabit our natural, artificial, and virtual worlds, now, and in the future?
Sausage Party, despite what it would have you believe, is an earnest and at times tender human story — a contemplation on faith wrapped in many layers of raunch.
Both women are  reportedly U.S. citizens , and Suda told The Washington Post she is planning to contact the ACLU in contemplation of a lawsuit against the Border Patrol.
He published it online as Three Body X: Aeon of Contemplation, and gained a considerable following as well as an offer to publish it as a formal novel.
For a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century member of the social élite, such an assemblage constituted a proper environment for the self-reflective labors of contemplation, reading, and writing.
Memories are already popping up on Millan's Instagram feed, like a quiet "moment" of contemplation in Illinois by Andre and a dive into deep dish pizza for Dad.
" I was at Awakened Futures, a conference in San Francisco that brings together experts in technology, meditation, and psychedelic drugs for a weekend of contemplation and "high weirdness.
Despite the different themes at hand, both video pieces have an inherent stillness in them; the characters and landscapes barely move, often with an air of heavy contemplation.
"I do find it interesting that this company says it aims to give readers 'a fresh visual experience and heightened level of contemplation' by adding photos," she says.
An instrumental version of the great jazz ballad "Midnight Sun" was treated as the entranced contemplation of a spellbound dreamer gazing at shooting stars in the summer sky.
The advent of YouTube, Facebook and private Twitter accounts have ramped-up the dangers of electronic democracy morphing into mobocracy as rants and chants replace contemplation and deliberation.
When the center isn't hosting sessions of staring at your digital device or Art / Life Counseling by Linda Montano, it's meant to be a quiet space for contemplation.
"Voyelles" in particular provokes a contemplation of what a "voice" is, and how the quality of timbre from a musical instrument can be incredibly suggestive of human singing.
Ryan Gosling's performance as First Man's reserved Neil Armstrong is studiously understated; he doesn't say much, and when he does, it's often after several beats of silent contemplation.
It's almost too easy, once you've visited one of the campuses, to slip into contemplation of what work colleges have that most of the rest of life lacks.
That means offering investor information that is standardized and understandable, provided more frequently — perhaps quarterly — and presented to investors in a way that will encourage consumption and contemplation.
"This court has recognized again and again forms of sex discrimination that were not in Congress's contemplation in 1964," said Pamela Karlan, arguing for Zarda in Altitude Express.
Created by Virginia Dwan in the 1990s in collaboration with land artist Charles Ross and architect Laban Wingert, the Dwan Light Sanctuary is a secular space for contemplation.
In an earlier era like the 1960s, none of these factors existed, and so despite those clever "Impeach Johnson" buttons, there was little contemplation of impeaching a president.
To my surprise and to great concern, the excessiveness of our division has yet to give us pause for contemplation on what is truly going on amongst us.
You may want to retreat to the kitchen for quiet contemplation of a project, or a series of projects, that won't advance any ball but the delicious one.
He uses abstract and color planes which convey depth, contemplation, spirituality and gestural movements which display spontaneity, movement and action in all of the media in which he works.
Jackson's movies dumbed it down to the level of a loud, suspenseful roller coaster, when it should have stood as a contemplation of humanity and a reinvigoration of imagination.
To walk through the turnstiles on Eighth Avenue is to feel the solemn silence, the slow contemplation, the unshakable self-confidence that has always defined great American opinion journalism.
The gallery's location in the living room and kitchen of a townhouse will undoubtedly only further blur facile distinctions between functional objects and those intended solely for aesthetic contemplation.
A spokesperson for the New York District Attorney's confirms to PEOPLE that Hoppy agreed to a plea deal involving a family adjournment in contemplation of dismissal in court Monday.
In California, and most states, an engagement ring is a gift in contemplation of marriage and if the nuptials never happen, the ring -- by law -- goes back to him.
" As for "Confederate," Packer said "the fact that there is the contemplation of contemporary slavery makes it something that I would not be a part of producing nor consuming.
Dead Slow Ahead's pace allows for plenty of contemplation, and at a certain point one's thoughts turn to their own place in this world, and the lottery of circumstance.
When the wind forced me to bow my head toward the whitening sidewalk, I fell into an entranced contemplation of the footprints people had trodden into the new snow.
"I don't think there's any contemplation of any changes, but the hearing was great from the standpoint of people being aware of how the whole process works," he said.
At one time, crazy ideas received serious contemplation by some pretty sharp minds, and even "very stable geniuses" to quote the flowery, if peculiar, way our president described himself.
"I asked the Lord if he would clear my mind," he said at one point, describing a long night of study and contemplation before resolving to go to Oregon.
The New Health Care In January, I devoted every walk from my home to the train to the contemplation of work details, hoping to improve my recall of them.
It's an ambient compilation—more or less—put together with the lofty goal of encouraging contemplation about our ephemerality, the idea that everything around us will someday fade away.
The round table, and Mr. Manchin's careful contemplation of his decision, underscore the tightrope being walked by Democrats running for re-election in states Mr. Trump carried in 2016.
But most introverts are likely to enjoy a place that can offer opportunities to recharge after being around people, or activities that allow for quiet contemplation even in crowds.
Rarely do they ask about why the admissions process exists as it does, the ideals and values that shape these processes and why they might be worthy of contemplation.
Expressively drawn in the late summer of 1971, The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting romantically reconstitutes London's many pristine parks as sites of Kantian contemplation or Woolfian angst.
The highlight of the show is "Total Recall" (1987), a thundering, body-shaking contemplation of mass media that ought to be as renowned as Christian Marclay's "The Clock" (2010).
"Bitter Money" ends with a contemplation of the migrants' alienated labor made material — the workshop's output, bundled in plastic and forlornly waiting in the rain to be shipped overseas.
She believed she was too usual for him, even with her flamboyance and her glittery charms; she believed she was too simple, too unenigmatic, too little prone to contemplation.
Prager's uneasy contemplation of her past inspired a new series, comprising a film and photographs, which will be shown this month at the Lehmann Maupin gallery, in New York.
The several suggestions of how to "make the best of your in-flight time" do not include the reading of a book or simply the enjoyment of quiet contemplation.
We must become more sensitized to the concept of consequences: poverty, illiteracy, oppression, lack of opportunity, despair and anger ... all of which can lead to the contemplation of violence.
Violette is cautious about his return to New York and the art world, but he believes the intervening years of contemplation and sobriety have provided enough distance from temptation.
Like everybody else, he has no time to think: The book's title comes from an offhand comment to a friend whose tardiness allowed a few welcome minutes of contemplation.
Amid his proliferating noun-clauses and abrupt, flashing images and scraps of speech, even thoughts appear in their immediacy as facts, objects of fleeting contemplation whose presence mutes commentary.
Amid his proliferating noun-clauses and abrupt, flashing images and scraps of speech, even thoughts appear in their immediacy as facts, objects of fleeting contemplation whose presence mutes commentary.
"I've always been the youngest, and I'm kind of surprised that I'm actually getting older," said Ms. Wann, 38, a little later, as she walked through the contemplation garden.
According to Grant Snider, "genius" is: 215% inspiration, 213% perspiration, 10.93% improvisation, 210.9% aspiration, 20.1% contemplation, 27% exploration, 13% daily frustration, 11% imitation, 10.9% desperation, and 0.1% pure elation.
It is meant to be a time of spiritual discipline — of deep contemplation of one's relationship with God, extra prayer, increased charity and generosity, and intense study of the Quran.
Migration is a complicated topic not always best dealt with in sound-bites, says Sophie Henderson, the museum's director, who wants to offer "a place for a bit more contemplation".
At the same time, Harrison's work is anything but empty — it is deserving of the viewer's gaze, weighing religious faith or even the contemplation of art against fickle commercial devotion.
It is about puffins and their burrows, but about so much more: Lancelot's discovery of humility, his acceptance of ignorance, his finding grace and joy in the contemplation of creation.
In one panel, a young woman (ostensibly affluent based on her furnishings) sits in quiet contemplation of a piece of paper (perhaps a letter?) she holds in her right hand.
Nevertheless, Albert Rosenfield, a no-nonsense city slicker who upends the sluggishly thoughtful pace of Cooper's small-town operation, reveals himself as an asshole who is also good at contemplation.
In 2013, he was a vocal critic of President Barack Obama's contemplation of strikes in Syria following President Bashar al-Assad's initial use of chemical weapons against his own people.
We get it: The whole world rejoices when Jason Momoa scores a new acting gig or, better yet, a peak Alpha Male photoshoot involving motorcycles, rock climbing, and arrow contemplation.
All that contemplation whets my appetite, and from here, I walk along the quay on the Left Bank until I reach Le Depart Saint-Michel, a 219-hour café-brasserie.
Artists like Allen (and not him alone) aren't experienced in states of pure contemplation (the way, in certain science fiction stories, an alien robot might observe human society), Scott argues.
"This decision is the hardest I've made yet, but after much research and contemplation, I believe it's what is best for me going forward," Tarpley wrote on his Instagram account.
Then again, this particular statuary has been around only since 243, while the stone artwork installed in 21 was moved to one last, and lasting, Viennese site of Mozartean contemplation.
" A post shared by Jared Saul (@itsjustjared) on Aug 17, 22017 at 23:204pm PDT Other custom drinks on the menu include the "Demogorgun," the "Snack Pack," and "Coffee & Contemplation.
But I found that—in spite of my firmly held disagreements with the church—the ritual, contemplation, and allegory of my faith continued to provide guidance and comfort to me.
A new cycle is beginning in your relationships, and now isn't the time to rush forward, but to stay still in contemplation and make room for quieter thoughts and emotions.
When moments of contemplation — sustained balances, moody breaks in the action — creep in, they read more like spots for them to catch their breath than poetic pauses in the storm.
Pieces like "The Custodian" (2018) — a framed photograph of a tranquil elderly woman lying on a pillow — seem to symbolize the fragility of life and the contemplation of the hereafter.
It suggests what art after Trump might be, and what it must be: a reflection on the mutually enriching relationship between contemplation and action; the political and the secular spiritual.
In my experience, writing a novel requires some periods of quiet and contemplation, which at times can feel opposed to the comparatively fast-paced and noisy world of contemporary publishing.
But with Pyongyang's successful intercontinental ballistic missile test this week, which could possibly put Darwin within striking distance of the North's missiles, it's become a time of contemplation for Australia.
Aduayom photographed Morgan at his home in Southern California, capturing him, and his striking, expressive face, in a moment of contemplation after she asked him to focus on a memory.
Halvorson intended to restructure the space as a sundial, inviting contemplation of not just the height of the trees but also time, as the sun sets and shadows shift slowly.
Prosecutors offered a deal called an ACD (Adjournment Contemplation Dismissal) -- which means if he stays out of trouble for 6 months, the arrest would be completely expunged from his record.
In this gallery, Ligon places Yiadom-Boakye's "Messages from Elsewhere," a 2013 oil of a black female figure wearing a lapis lazuli dress, gazing over her shoulder, lost in contemplation.
Her first solo album, Heavn (2016), mixed political protest with quiet contemplation, a musical rendition of Chicago that presented the city as an intimate playground and a site for private introspection.
Alongside a competition showcasing new short work, it also boasts installations, seminars, workshops, retrospectives, and curated programs that aim to inspire conversation and contemplation long after the audience has filed out.
Back in 2018, he couldn't have anticipated how much of Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo would spend on somber contemplation and anguished grief, or how the film transitions into triumph.
Although much of her work is driven by her own need to recover or recreate, Kahraman reaches beyond the personal, offering a multifaceted contemplation of gender politics in the modern world.
The wellness movement neatly dispatched, she sits in contemplation of death itself in the book's concluding, very beautiful passages, bringing to it her characteristic curiosity and awe at the natural world.
Mark Lamos, who directed both plays, has found and finely supported the shape of the outstanding "Red," with natural rhythms and assured moments of quiet contemplation that are visual artwork themselves.
Historic sites in Syria continue to be damaged, including a monastery northwest of Aleppo where a fifth-century monk, St. Simeon Stylites, is said to have spent decades in hermetic contemplation.
Average Americans who live their daily lives without much contemplation of jurisprudence must think it odd to hear judges praised for demonstrating simple respect for the actual intent of the Constitution.
In "Book of Numbers" (1982—2006), made of cardboard cloth, jute rope, cord, marker, and ink on paper, Sharif displays the everyday object of the book as one of aesthetic contemplation.
"After much discussion and a long period of contemplation we have decided we are better off as friends, business partners and co-parents rather than life partners," the couple told CNN.
The contemplation was exploratory at this stage and its chairman Huang Wenji-owned Jicheng Investment has not entered into any agreement regarding the share sale, the Hong Kong-listed firm said.
As I leave, I think about this the whole walk back to the car, doing my best to combine sleep, mild contemplation, and walking without knocking into a florescent tank top.
The notion that only works emerging from European traditions are worthy of contemplation and celebration still shapes what is covered, what is held up as exceptional, and what is rendered invisible.
Unlike the big vocal pop that ruled the charts of the era and the brassy composers making a living on big band stuff, it found space in its arrangements for contemplation.
The lines on my forehead are a result, in part, of contemplation; the ones around my eyes are from laughter; the ones around my mouth from my incessant habit of whistling.
Akin to chapels designed by Henri Matisse in the south of France and by Mark Rothko in Houston, Kelly's immersive space is intended to inspire contemplation and joy, Ms. Wicha said.
And the meandering flow of the plot feels appropriate for the beginning of the silly season, when thoughts turn to fantasies of flight and contemplation of the ruts we're stuck in.
"I call upon the people of the United States to pause on that day in solemn contemplation of the glorious blessings of freedom which we humbly and thankfully enjoy," he wrote.
A third statute, also added by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, is 18 U.S.C. 1519, which reaches conduct in "contemplation" of obstructing a possible investigation even if one has not yet begun.
But though I had been quite content to give an hour of my time to its contemplation, the logical conclusion, after the last chord, seemed to be to withhold all applause.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the 1990s, Virginia Dwan conceived of the Dwan Light Sanctuary, a secular space for contemplation that would be free and open to the public.
I believe that a novelist should write for no more than four hours a day, after which returns truly diminish; this, of course, leaves many hours for idle play and contemplation.
"From the first contemplation that his wife would run for office in Virginia, [McCabe] sought out and consulted with ethics officers, which included briefings on the Hatch Act," the records state.
Friday is a day for contemplation, followed by an evening of heavy drinking and substance abuse by which we hope, for several fleeting hours, to forget the pointless drudgery of existence.
It's a medium designed to be shared, recovered, sat with in contemplation of where we were, where we've been, and what was (and perhaps still is) real and true for us.
But viewers who are willing to sit in quiet contemplation of the inner nature of the work — and of themselves — will discover something fluid and personal beneath the seemingly rigid canvases.
He thinks that the big tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon — are "destroying the possibility of contemplation" and making us turn away from the intellectual work that, he says, makes us human.
"I can't say I worry about mortality, but it's impossible to get to my age and not have a little contemplation of it," Hurt told U.K.'s Radio Times in August 2015.
Jobim and de Moraes's "The Girl from Ipanema", a languid musing on the wistful contemplation of beauty by age, had its first performance, by Mr Gilberto, in a Rio nightclub in 1962.
" This vision, manifest in the chapel's founding in 1971, aspires to "offer a space for ecumenical and interfaith celebration and contemplation, as well as to foster community engagement on critical social issues.
"Still life," though, gives a false impression of these paintings, in which the bold colors of his expressionist phase become floors for objects arranged not in static contemplation, but frozen in action.
"The contemplation of what's going to happen if we don't fix all of these problems is almost too awful to think about," says Rachel Laurence from the think tank New Economics Foundation.
There is much food for self-contemplation on the part of the generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, and it's a popular theme among British novelists born in the 1940s.
Advisers should want to serve not only because it is a great honor, but because they are highly qualified to offer their insight and expertise, built on experience, study and careerlong contemplation.
"Preacher," which begins Sunday on AMC, is a story about good and evil and what lies beyond mortal existence, but it doesn't spend much time in quiet contemplation of the eternal mysteries.
That is, after all, what true contemplation must be about: a commerce with the irreality of things, a learned habit to see them from the privileged perspective of their pre- and nonexistence.
I had fallen under the spell of Thomas Merton, the author of " The Seven Storey Mountain " and other books of Catholic spirituality, grounded in the discipline of silent self-emptying called contemplation.
Visitors will be able to reserve an 8-minute slot via tweet for any time during the day or night in order to enjoy a moment of contemplation on the Presidential throne.
The pieces are simple forms that could blend in unobtrusively with their surroundings in the context of a busy sidewalk, but given space for contemplation as art objects, they resist easy categorization.
Lynch's retirement rumors come in the wake of Calvin Johnson's contemplation of leaving the league at 30, which have drawn criticism from Barry Sanders as a "devastating" move for the young player.
Visual artists are especially good subjects for this kind of documentary, and still images like Winogrand's — mostly black-and-white, full of latent drama and arrested kineticism — lend themselves to cinematic contemplation.
The band tells Leo they're playing "Just What I Needed By the Cars" — a song Leo's dad sang with him growing up — and, after a few moments of contemplation, Leo starts singing.
The magical reverie of "Black Waves," a widescreen panel of animated Katsushika Hokusai-style waves, was lost in the crowd—oceanic contemplation works best without being immersed in a crowd of twenty.
While some inside Facebook are trying to spin the narrative that he'd spent his time away deep in contemplation and simply decided that six years was enough, that's not the true motivation.
Signs are hand-lettered; there are plenty of chairs for contemplation and ladders for climbing; and, whether by accident or puckish design, the crime section stops short at a fittingly dead end.
This 1,079-page book would eventually provide me with a total of two months' worth of entertainment and existential contemplation, all for a third of what I often spend on Chinese food.
After we had gone through a collective, thorough contemplation of oft-ignored, barely detectable causes and effects, the operatic voice was ready to sing — and to sound truly, traditionally beautiful — once more.
We have an expectation that, before we go forth into the social world, we can occupy a private interior space for experimentation and contemplation, a space free of the judgment of others.
This honesty, about 20 minutes into our conversation, is what listeners have tapped into in her music – she's been able to channel anger, confrontation and contemplation into songs that invite you in.
I walk out to the garden, where green topiaries and scented rosemary invite contemplation and wonder whether there are artistic paradigms that are more ecological, re-envisioning how artists produce and deliver art.
Immediately next door, a silent video by Shoja Azare and Shahram Karimi invites contemplation; Julian Charrière's installation explores ephemerality; and Shirin Neshat's video, Sarah (2016), deals with the relationship between water and women.
Or worse still, as soon as he did manage a moment's cool contemplation, he would begin to ask himself if she wasn't as much a burden to him as he was to her.
In the same vein of Pamela Rosencranz's Smartwater bottles filled with artificial skin colors, the bottles in the fridge are perverted objects of capital, given a heightened value, an invitation for critical contemplation.
In 2010 (pictured above) this extra area was but a spare and melancholy tableau meant, perhaps, to elicit a hushed contemplation of Costco, where each of the items seemed to have been purchased.
Ali achieved extraordinary serenity in his old age, where he spent much of his time in quiet contemplation and knelt facing Mecca to pray so long as his body was up to it.
The regulator uses it if it suspects that two enterprises "have ceased to be distinct", or that arrangements are in place or contemplation, which could result in the enterprises "ceasing to be distinct".
Peter Brook, the director responsible for the artfully arranged cosmic carnage called "The Mahabharata," staged here in 1987, has now returned in contemplation with "Battlefield," an elegiac play of stark and uncommon beauty.
Play stopped as the mystery cat navigated its way across the field into Cowboys territory, where, after a minute of contemplation, its scored the most adorable touchdown of the NFL season thus far.
Bill Burr, Artie Lange and other comedians play versions of themselves to give Pete guidance or a place to stay; the show veers between thoughtful contemplation of morals and debaucherous one-night stands.
The questions, about what it means to make art, and the anxiety of a wrong turn with no hope of turning back, are easier to ask during this moment of contemplation on aging.
When he's not staring into the distance (an untrained performer, Fails has a face for contemplation), Jimmie is on the move, storming San Francisco on his skateboard or rowing off in a fantasy.
Or, you might have your class learn about the importance of taking time for deep contemplation and introspection as an introduction to building in regular time for them to reflect on their learning.
Experts say they can't be completely sure of its authenticity, but the display of an item so evocative certainly spurs contemplation of the torment that must have been rushing through van Gogh's mind.
Embraced by historians and critics of contemporary art, Ms. Bruguera is often used as an example of an artist — like Thomas Hirschhorn — whose work goes beyond representation and individual contemplation and activates viewers.
While Mark Rothko is revered for his studies of vibrant color as a locus for meditative contemplation, this was also explored by artists such as Tseng Yu-ho, Isami Doi, and Bumpei Akaji.
The novel "becomes an oddly poignant contemplation of what it's like to live 'way past' your shelf life and make choices that don't quite match your insouciant appearance," our reviewer, Michael Upchurch, wrote.
Steven Erlanger, our chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe, calls it a "moving, sometimes angry contemplation of a life slowly destroyed by M.S." Cook: Roasted salmon with fennel and lime is elegant and simple.
But Ms. Walter's wizard is a man of rueful contemplation, too, conscious of himself as a victim of his own hunger for control, and wrenchingly unresolved about the traitorous enemies he must forgive.
While the colorful light refractions are what I had hoped to see, I was far more struck by the structure itself and the marriage of art, architecture, and contemplation in a secular setting.
This space drew Shalev-Gerz into contemplation on the nature of memory, and she sought out a cohort of former workers at the factory, specifically female workers who had been pregnant while working there.
But I watched from across the murky lake as they seemed to shut everyone out, and enjoy a special quiet moment of contemplation as they floated two baskets of flower petals as a tribute.
And between my contemplation of shows like Breaking Bad or Master of None, I'm also cramming episodes of Gossip Girl and Riverdale like a woman shoveling potato chips, hand-to-mouth, down her gullet.
The curators mention, if too rigidly confined by an architectural and conceptual framework, a museum can become an isolated space for art contemplation, rather than remain open to constant ecosystemic transformation, osmosis and growth.
But Medvedeva has said that the program is a contemplation on "clinical death" and the moment the spirit leaves the body: At a couple different points in the program, Medvedeva even pantomimes last breaths.
With about 50 seconds left in the game—and the win secured—he tucked his face inside his jersey and bent over on the court, either in quiet contemplation, or experiencing an emotional overload.
RELATED: A list of who's leaving Congress "After much contemplation and prayer, we decided it was the right time for me to step aside and let someone else serve the Sixth District," Goodlatte wrote.
Spacek is as gracious as she has ever been, and unafraid to take a moment, or more, for contemplation; watch Jewel fill a kettle and let it overflow while her thoughts float toward Forrest.
It is easy to be unnerved by the casual manner and lack of emotion of many visitors in the film, though others are shown in states of contemplation as they reckon with the camps.
Relational aesthetics purported to do away with supposedly passive contemplation in favor of active participation that often included physical activity, with viewers relating to one another and sometimes taking a bit of the art.
"I always knew inside I wanted one, and after going through a lot of life changes and challenges and much contemplation, I knew it was the right thing for me to do," she says.
"As much as I love monumental sculpture, I think there is a great way of showing nonmonumental sculpture in the middle of the city, and to have quiet moments and contemplation," Mr. Littman said.
They intend "A Period of Animate Existence" — whose clinical-sounding title is a wordier way of saying "life" — to be a contemplation of the dangers facing us, and of whatever future we might have.
She is smiling slightly and regarding the manicured garden in peaceful contemplation, or perhaps so she will not inadvertently make affable eye contact with a gawking visitor and embolden them to invite themselves over.
" But he addressed HBO's show in his Deadline interview, saying "the fact that there is the contemplation of contemporary slavery makes it something that I would not be a part of producing nor consuming.
" In an email to The New York Times earlier this month, Mr. Weinstein himself described the past few years as an "overwhelming" time that had given him the "opportunity for self-reflection and contemplation.
Books News The sunlit meditation hall at the Shambhala Center in downtown Manhattan is usually reserved for serious Buddhist practice — austere contemplation, the silent cultivation of wisdom, deliberate reflection on the world's fundamental impermanence.
As Vogel remarks, such projects can also be contextualized under the umbrella of "art as experience," an ever-growing quasi-genre that privileges novel and often spectacular experiences over the contemplation of inert objects.
Pink-hued "Lea" and raven-haired "Erika" form the basis for larger eponymous works, while "Oren" represents an important course-correction from head-on confrontation with his subjects to dreamy contemplation at a painterly remove.
In other words, supporting Black Lives Matter shouldn't require contemplation; it should be a moral obligation, one that demands at least the same fervor, passion and action that corporations put toward other human rights issues.
Its contemplation of the future is often a commentary on the present: many sci-fi authors take current concerns, from robots to climate chaos to gender politics, to the logical extremes and consider their implications.
The 91-year-old monarch, with Prince Philip, Charles, Camilla and Princess Eugenie, stood in quiet contemplation and respect outside the palace Bow Room as the party guests looked on from the 40-acre garden.
Walking around the property one chilly day, Mr. Van de Bovenkamp, 79, explained that he had gutted the house, and transformed two outlying buildings into studios, one for sculpture, the other for painting and contemplation.
It devotes a whole episode to the contemplation of a plea deal — even though we know there are several hours left in the season and suspect Naz won't take the deal for that very reason.
The 40 also include the Catholic archdiocese of Cape Town, Germany's Bank fur Kirche und Caritas eG, Oikocredit Belgium, the Australian Jesuit Province, Newman University in England and the U.S. Center for Action and Contemplation.
Many Straub-Huillet films do not dramatize their source material but present it for contemplation in the context of a tranquil landscape that was once the site of a strike, a revolt or a massacre.
Preacher "is a story about good and evil and what lies beyond mortal existence, but it doesn't spend much time in quiet contemplation of the eternal mysteries," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
"After much discussion and a long period of contemplation we have decided we are better off as friends, business partners and co-parents rather than life partners," the couple said in a statement to CNN.
These blunt, muscular statements, which delve into the expressive potential of household items, link up with Wagner's later time-based works (exposed to and eroded by the elements) in their contemplation of transience and stability.
Adapted from a novel by Austin Wright, the film stars Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in a complex film-within-a-film: a gritty psychological thriller tucked inside an urbane contemplation of upper-class life.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LANDERNEAU, France — When read against the grain of traditional modernist art history, Nothing in Moderation offers a sprawling horizon for contemplation in which we may anchor or lose ourselves.
Julie Mehretu, Henry Taylor and George Condo, three American artists working in very different idioms, have brought challenging works that deserved proper space for contemplation and shouldn't have to compete against one another this way.
Cordero shapes "a number of sci-fi clichés — from the botched spacewalk to the communications breakdown — into a wondering contemplation of our place in the universe," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The Times.
Recall that she told Agent DiPierro last season that contemplation of alternate realities "moves me very deeply," and she has seemingly convinced Angela that it's possible to undo the history in which her mother died.
His ultimate object of contemplation was his own contradictory self, and he turned his obsession with fragmentation, discontinuity and the limits of language into a spectacle that enchanted children, disturbed adults and fascinated postmodernist critics.
Seated contemplation is well and good, but not so much when those around you — and whom you have intentionally joined — are celebrating such holy moments (to them) that they are obliged to stand or kneel.
The domestic and intellectual meet on the same plain in her work; the swirl of hair on the back of a baby's head is as worthy a subject of contemplation as one of Wittgenstein's aphorisms.
Whereas the printed book assumes and empowers the capacity for creative thought and deep contemplation, the internet is designed for optimized, high-speed consumption — a manifestation of the industrialist desires and ethics of our time.
These walks and others gave me a lot of time for quiet contemplation, and eventually I started to wonder: If I live in New York City, why am I spending so many nights inside hotels?
"After much discussion and a long period of contemplation we have decided we are better off as friends, business partners and co-parents rather than life partners," a rep for the former couple told PEOPLE.
Without judgment — this composer creates spaces of contemplation, not pat politics — his juxtapositions reveal how freely given consent (marriage, I'm looking at you) has ended up systematically wronging women, just as rape and assault have.
Because it's far easier to jump into a pattern of feeling than it is any kind of deeper relationship with what is happening that would require contemplation, that would require deliberation, that would require collaboration.
Ormsby Gore is living life her own way and she decorates for people who, I imagine, wish for a still place in the busily turning world, a pocket of contemplation amidst the regular upheavals of life.
Being here, you can't help but feel the attraction of the tales people tell about wine, including how they explain the attributes in each bottle that make it a topic for contemplation and not just consumption.
Now, while I think that too much TV, especially in a place where you are being forced into self-contemplation, isn't the best idea, having TVs to keep people calm and quiet are a good thing.
Not interested in the human figure, Rousseau attended to nature's textures and moods, zeroing in on details of leaves and bark, while using light and weather to render nature as a source of terror and contemplation.
Outside, communing with my own Cream of Nectar and condensed milk, I saw two sets of people: the talkative customers-in-waiting and the silent patrons, their heads bowed over their sno-balls in quiet contemplation.
By any measure, that's both a fitting tribute, and a contemplation of many layers that exist between the ebullient public personalities that fans see and the mass of contradictions and self-doubts that can lurk within.
Olmi, who died last year at 86, was drawn to the contemplation of work, to the rituals and routines of mid-20th-century clerks and welders, late-19th-century tenant farmers and early-16th-century soldiers.
A therapist can help you in this process, but if that's not an option, you can also do this sort of emotional excavation on your own, through journaling, contemplation and perhaps conversations with a trusted friend.
A much copied image, thought suitable for contemplation by cloistered nuns, it presents Jesus as a pink-cheeked man-child reclining, as soft and plump as a piece of tropical fruit, on a bed of flowers.
Under the deal offered by the Manhattan district attorney's office — termed an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal — and agreed to by Oakley, the charges will be dropped as long he is not arrested within six months.
The mere contemplation of a nuclear attack is horrifying, but it may be a good time to have a needed conversation many public officials are normally reluctant to have, out of concern over stoking public fears.
As they flirt and banter their way toward love and grapple with family matters, Jenkins embeds their emotional and domestic struggles in a lyrical contemplation of landscape that is, in turn, nested within a historical argument.
Many who swam for years in the Blue Hole or sought moments of quiet contemplation there have been dismayed, saying that the increased popularity of the spot has threatened to destroy precisely what made it precious.
"After much discussion and a long period of contemplation we have decided we are better off as friends, business partners and co-parents rather than life partners," a statement from the couple provided to CNN said.
Except for a faint green wash over the trees and a red seal, it's mostly a monochromatic world — ranging from dark black to light brown — that relies on distance for its mood of tranquility and contemplation.
But to go even further, back to our discussion of contemplation, if we allow ourselves to exist in this haze where we subconsciously go from click to click, we don't pause or slow down and think deeply.
It's the same gut-wrenching hour of contemplation, self-loathing, and rage we've come to expect from How To Get Away With Murder, just without a wraparound-porch home base to tie everyone together in their misery.
Sit on Miami Beach at three in the morning after clubbing all night and letting the coming in/going away of the hot South Beach tides take your mind to a place of deep contemplation of death?
Emphasizing her perspective as a Christian, as well as a historian, she writes: The prosperity gospel has taken a religion based on the contemplation of a dying man and stripped it of its call to surrender all.
Drawing on the long-held tradition of abstaining from red meat during times of religious contemplation, the event was originally rather austere in tone, held in commemoration of the wait for the midnight birth of baby Jesus.
Though the stakes are high and Monkman is deadly serious in the contemplation of his themes, it must be noted that "Scent of a Beaver," like much of his work, cleverly and playfully makes use of kitsch.
The warmth of the color palette and her optimistic expression encourage young readers through a mysterious adventure to an alternate universe of light-filled passages, Escher-like stair climbing, and a contemplation of the explorer's dual self.
In her home studio, the artist Susan Cianciolo's primary piece of furniture is a daybed, a nod to artists before her, such as Henri Matisse and Donald Judd, whose studios included beds for nap-taking and contemplation.
Intended to be a revelation of cultural heritage and a contemplation of the perpetuation of life from both cultural and biological perspectives, the collection features 15 masks and is partitioned into three subcategories: Past, Present, and Future.
At about the same time, Isamu Noguchi began designing "playscapes" and playground equipment; some of these works are both beautiful objects worthy of prolonged visual contemplation and things you can swing on, hop over or crawl through.
As you walk away from the detritus, it hits you: The flowers are there to inspire the contemplation all art does — a reflection on the fragility of all things living, on the ending that awaits us all.
A defendant "cannot be someone who persuades others to shred documents under a document retention policy when he does not have in contemplation any particular official proceeding in which those documents might be material," the opinion explained.
It's not silent contemplation, but time engaged with 15 fellow travelers who are part of the Encore Transition Program, a semester-long curriculum at the Union Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights, right in Dr. Estes-Hicks's neighborhood.
Craig Shepard, who directs the Music for Contemplation series, in New York, undertook a project in which he walked across Switzerland for thirty-one days, writing a solo trumpet piece each day and playing it that evening.
Written by Charles L. Mee and directed by Les Waters, the production features a cast of 17 men engaging in just about anything but contemplation and religious ideas — to which Merton devoted much of his writings (1:25).
Sensing the souring of the public mood, Ms. Merkel shifted tone this week from her usual credo about integrating migrants — "We can do it" — to stiff condemnation, and even contemplation of expulsions or deportation for newly arrived offenders.
"It is every person's right to be able to have a place to retreat for contemplation and prayer, for religious observance, celebration of key life and family milestones, marriages, christenings and so forth," Sheeran wrote in the paperwork.
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"The film has no obvious narrative, instead we wanted the video to act as a space for contemplation and reflection, which was helped by originally approaching the video from a purely live visuals manner," Healy and Wilson say.
Created by Kay Cannon ("Pitch Perfect"), and counting Charlize Theron among its producers, "Girlboss" clearly wants to be another contemplation of that delicate period on the cusp of full-fledged adulthood, which is where "Girls" began and ended.
But Ann Veronica Janssens' Representations d'un corps rond (Representation of a Round Body) offers rave lighting rigs as installations unto themselves, making their familiar beam arrays into objects of contemplation, and its enormity translates even on the page.
Where she once wrote beautifully and poetically about her own life and loves, this time she swivels the lens outwards, elevating her contemplation of the human condition to the warfare and trauma we endure on a wider scale.
Mostly, though, I watched in semirapture, wishing that the voice-over would stop interfering with my contemplation of the extraordinary visual symphony (accompanied, as ever in Mr. Malick's films, by well-chosen music) that Mr. Malick has composed.
On the second day of hajj, pilgrims wake at dawn and walk a short distance to Mount Arafat, where they spend the remainder of the day on or near the mountain in quiet worship and contemplation of God.
The essence of low-budget filmmaking and a landmark of film noir, Ulmer's brisk, grimy contemplation of the anonymity of the American road and the cruelties of fate seems tailor-made for beat-up prints and cheap DVDs.
The app feels like an oasis on your phone, one of the few digital spaces that provides you mental space for contemplation and consideration — for thinking about the world more deeply than as raw material for clickbaity memes.
Like all of his movies, it leans on very long takes — there are only 142 shots in the entire 163-minute movie, a remarkably low number — to create an aura of contemplation as well as tension and dread.
Mr. Voges's show, which takes its name from Google's former slogan, invites the audience to reflect on the uses and abuses of communications technology, but this garishly lit and gratingly loud spectacle leaves virtually no room for contemplation.
January 133 After five years of anthropomorphism, showbiz satire and light surrealism — all threaded with some genuinely moving contemplation of what it means to be happy and successful — "Bojack Horseman" comes to an end with eight more episodes.
On "Passion Dance," the album's hot-blooded opening track, and "Contemplation," the deep-breathing ballad that follows, Mr. Tyner doubles the melodies with Joe Henderson's tenor saxophone, while Jones builds a prism of bursting rhythms all around them.
Ten years ago, at the art fair in Switzerland, the couple bought their first piece together, a painting by Spencer Sweeney of a figure who appears to have removed his own face and is holding it in contemplation.
The legend of the cross-country American road trip has been explored across art forms and genres, but a new exhibition attempts to reexamine the classic trope through a contemplation of landscapes, driving culture, and vacations in America.
Never mind the fact that vehicle occupants will find yet another part of their day intruded upon by blinking, button-pushing distractions, losing time they might have spent in quiet contemplation (or, sigh, looking at their own smartphones).
The opposite is true at Kolumba, the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, where new and old works are exhibited alongside each other to create a deeply introspective, multi-temporal space curated for the purpose of contemplation.
The mystery show is about the contemplation of mystery and the idea that the deeper you go into any question, the more likely it is that you will open up a mineshaft into the darkness of the truly unknowable.
He said that no one from the transition team ever contacted him and there were only two short meetings with members of his staff and the transition team where the contemplation of a travel ban was never brought up.
The works of each artist, ranging from Ry Fyan's gentrification-condemning wall works, to William Stone's lamps embedded with hieroglyphics, occupy their own territories throughout the enormous space, allowing for an individual contemplation somewhat unusual for a group exhibition.
I feel like the drive to put on costumes at things like Mardi Gras or cultural events might even be more popular outside the United States, but people have always put on costumes for transformation, and celebration, and contemplation.
The curators, Adam Caruso, Peter St John and Marcus Taylor, would rather like to guide that contemplation however: they have already listed several meanings that the emptiness might have, including "abandonment, reconstruction, sanctuary, Brexit, isolation, colonialism and climate change".
I freely admit to having a few moments of contemplation, in the midst of testing the XS Max with my year-old X nearby, where I wondered if the latter's 5.8-inch screen was big enough for my needs.
While the administration was in sync on the need to apply maximum diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea, the President's bellicose rhetoric and contemplation of military action against North Korea stoked deep divisions in the administration's top ranks.
At its best, historical fiction isn't a stump speech or a school lesson, but it sure does illuminate the past, give soul and body to our history so we can sojourn with it a while, in privacy and contemplation.
But insisting on exclusively aesthetic contemplation of his works — or implying that in the "Brandenburgs" he was freed from the perceived burden of including religious content in his music — pales their meanings, diminishes their complexity and reduces their stature.
The answer, he discovered through reading Wordsworth, is to take refuge in a capacity to be moved by beauty — a capacity to take joy in the quiet contemplation of delicate thoughts, sights, sounds, and feelings, not just titanic struggles.
In a Facebook Live concert and interview, he walked us through the first movement: a theme delivered in unison by the orchestra, then developed in typical sonata form in a 24-minute journey full of drama, contemplation and beauty.
With Szarkowski as the best kind of guide — one whose itinerary allows interludes of undisturbed contemplation — we wind our way through the haunts of old Paris, emerging from time-shuttered streets into the open skies of the surrounding countryside.
Ogata has long devoted himself to the excavation and expression of beauty according to what he sees as the five pillars of Japanese dining culture — tea tasting, properly using a utensil, savoring a meal, hospitality, and contemplation and reflection.
This is a celebration of female friendship and a bittersweet contemplation of receding youth, as Jenny is compelled to say goodbye to New York, goodbye to her twenties and of course, goodbye to Nate, with his limpid, soulful eyes.
So, for three months I walked through the red brick residential streets of the old industrial north, enrolled on a literature course (of course) and lost in teary-eyed contemplation to the kitchen sink reveries of Steven Patrick Morrissey.
Outfitted in churchly robes, which seems the right style choice for the contemplation of the sacred and profane, the ensemble hymns the magnetic and repellent attraction exerted by a boy named Joshua upon a younger high school student named Clare.
The other carving that I found outstanding, aesthetically striking, and genuinely delightful for its synthesis of introspective contemplation and formal detail, is the Baoulé "Statuette de conjoint mystique blolo bian" ("Spouse Statuette Mystical Blolo Bian," circa 19th century) from Ivory Coast.
In hot pursuit of these current lines of investigation and contemplation, last December he delivered a double-header of lectures, back-to-back on the same day, at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been an honorary professor since 1997.
In this retrospective of the famed Brazilian artist, originally co-curated by Valeria Piccoli and Jochen Volz for the Pinacoteca de São Paulo and comprising works from the 1980s through the present, the freedom to play does not preclude serious contemplation.
The Brussels institutions have largely established their respective roles, bar a wobble from the European Parliament, and now spend their days in quasi-academic contemplation of trade models or security co-operation protocols as they wait for the games to begin.
Over the course of the school year they receive roughly 80 hours of training in everything from how to recognize signs of suicide contemplation and depression to how to provide companionship to those students who appear in need of a friend.
"Since her head is freshly shaved and a lot of people haven't seen her that way, and there was contemplation of how to present it because Cara's really fun," she explains of the look, which took two hours in total.
The ex-Knicks star was charged with assault, harassment and criminal trespass ... but accepted an ACD (Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal) -- which would expunge the arrest from his record if he agreed to keep his nose clean for 6 months.
The prayers, which allow a rare moment for quiet and contemplation, are all the more poignant for the service men and women who have lost their friends and colleagues in the fatal accidents at sea in the past few months.
The idea is seemingly straightforward, but in these positions and locations where contemplation often involves a screen, the insertion of language directed at you reveals a type of disconnect that wakes you from the automatic behaviors we enact in such spaces.
There three mirror rooms center the new exhibition: Pumpkin's Infinity Mirrored Room, Chandelier of Grief, and Where the Lights in My Heart Go, where the public can be overwhelmed by mutiplying reflections for reflection, contemplation, or most likely, hypnotic amazement.
"The findings from some genetic tests can be life-altering, and people should decide whether or not they wish to receive the results after substantial contemplation," Adam C. Powell, a healthcare economist and adjunct professor at Northeastern University, told VICE.
Since his days in the cosmos-traversing, anything-goes trio Emeralds, he's manipulated synthesizers and assorted other electronics with an eye on the existential, creating instrumentals that creep and ooze along the space-time continuum to allow for quiet contemplation.
Me, though, I may cook a little, after the reading, after the sketching out of a menu for the holiday feast, after a long walk with the dog, after some contemplation of the ocean and its effect upon the spirit.
Once again, Americans are left to ask each other these sorts of questions, after a gunman burst into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on the Jewish Sabbath and opened fire on families in the contemplation of their faith.
You heard me say that, right now, our contemplation is with the number of people who still have pay television; with the amount of remuneration we get from that, our best business right now is to stay in that bundle.
From them I seemed to learn what would be the perennial sources of happiness, when all the greater evils of life shall have been removed… I needed to be made to feel that there was real, permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation.
I appreciated the thrill of the run but would have appreciated a pause here and there to take in the view, especially as Kennedy tackles sexism and infidelity and other black-diamond topics deserving of more contemplation than she allows.
" Mr. Beha wrote for the magazine's May issue, arguing in an essay that an obsession with the Trump presidency becomes unhealthy when it gets in the way of "the contemplation of truth" and other "things that make life worth living.
"After much discussion and a long period of contemplation we have decided we are better off as friends, business partners and co-parents rather than life partners," a representative for Deschanel and Pechenik confirmed in a joint statement to the outlet.
"The majority of Thais have drunk deeply from the sources of Buddhism, which have imbued their way of venerating life and their ancestors, and leading a sober lifestyle based on contemplation, detachment, hard work and discipline," Francis told the patriarch.
Speaking to Reuters from his family home in Bavaria, Bluecher said he shares the dissatisfaction of many Britons with the EU but wants Britain to help reform the bloc rather than retreat into isolation and fond contemplation of its history.
Seda Gragossian, the clinical director at the Talk Therapy Psychology Center in San Diego, California, says engaging in an activity that doesn't take much contemplation is an example of mindful escapism where brain waves slow down and extraneous thinking is limited.
That very body turns out to be subject to much the same problems of what we call The Internet of Hackable Things, which leads The Major to indulge in ass-kicking and deep contemplation of the meaning of it all.
"It is every person's right to be able to have a place to retreat for contemplation and prayer, for religious observance, celebration of key life and family milestones, marriages, christenings and so forth," Sheeran wrote in the paperwork, which was ultimately rejected.
In My Mother in the Backyard, DuBois uses perspective to highlight his parents' estrangement: In the foreground his mother is caught in a moment of worried contemplation, while in the back, out of focus, his father walks by the pool in swimming trunks.
It is a disruption, moreover, that leads us towards contemplation of words as the poem's true protagonists — think, for example, of "dip a large it" as the immersion of the word "it," as if this "it" has some sort of nearly physical reality.
So many painters in art history struggle to depict the mixture of agony and contemplation in this scene — it's easier to illustrate the all-out suffering of the crucifixion than it is to render the balance between tranquility, pain, and anticipation seen here.
Maybe every social media critic spent their Memorial Day in deep and solemn contemplation for the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for the United States, but I think it's more likely that a few of them went to a barbecue.
One need not count oneself among the faithful to be silenced by the suffusion of contemplation and color — seabed blue, the opulent scarlets and gold halos of the sainted patriarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church, their faces blackened remarkably little over seven centuries.
" Dreher said that he now regretted the occasionally "shrill" tone of his book: "I'm truly trying to shake people out of their complacency about church, but to visit the Bruderhof is to go to a place of quiet and contemplation and kindness.
She's been able to ask gently prodding questions that get locals rethinking about space here—her project, A Long Wait , on Casco Bay's Fort Gorges was a gorgeous contemplation on time and purpose—and it's exciting to undertake those investigations with her.
The image of an unknown, undocumented Hsieh meditating on his artistic philosophy while cleaning a restaurant floor suggests a Zen monk who sweeps fallen leaves off the stone steps of a temple as a means of getting into a mood of contemplation.
At best, they're a safe space, a serene zone of reflection and a refuge from the fray, a sanctuary for contemplation where you can relax and take a vital mental inventory, or a place where you can escape the bouncer's prying eyes.
Such abstract images — a small triangle and a circle plunked down in empty pictorial space like lonely islands in a vast sea, or a block of bold, Daniel Burin-like stripes — serve as visual prompts for a seeker's deep, concentrated, spiritual contemplation.
But, said Adam Murray, a lecturer at the Manchester School of Art and Central St. Martins, who curated the exhibition with Ms. Stoppard, events like Britain's decision to leave the E.U. have prompted fresh contemplation of what the North means to the country.
That all of our considered noticing and contemplation may have simply led us to a pained awareness that the particularity of our gaze and insight doesn't count for much against a rigged system, much less a disaffected young man carrying an AR-15.
There's still a little sprinkle of Riverdale weirdness in there — Cheryl threatens to ruin the Fourth of July parade with an airhorn and Reggie just happens to own a handy, plot-advancing hearse — but overall the tone is one of contemplation and mourning.
In this novel, which is in part a beach-read thriller and in part a contemplation of questions about God and communication, Anna, a young mother fleeing her estranged, sociopathic husband, grapples with a disembodied voice that only she seems to hear.
" By 1927 a librarian could observe that "pessimistic defenders of the book … are wont to contrast the actual process of reading with the lazy and passive contemplation of the screen or listening to wireless, and to prophecy the death of the book.
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She's been able to ask gently prodding questions that get locals rethinking about space here—her project, A Long Wait , on Casco Bay's Fort Gorges was a gorgeous contemplation on time and purpose—and it's exciting to undertake those investigations with her.
I'm not a fan of this sort of thing; surely looking up at the cosmos—just the way it is, without an inflated shiny tube in the way—should inspire in anyone a sense of wonder and contemplation of one's place in the universe.
Over the past few years, virtual help agents have taken on surprisingly sensitive jobs in modern society: counseling Syrian refugees fleeing civil war, creating quiet spaces of contemplation for millions of Chinese living in densely populated cities, and helping Australians access national disability benefits.
That story became Three Body X: Aeon of Contemplation, which will be published next year in English by Tor Books as The Redemption of Time, translated by Ken Liu, who was responsible for the English editions of The Three-Body Problem and Death's End.
"As [the Scottish Parliament] has successfully demonstrated over the years, one hallmark of leadership in such a fast-moving world is allowing sufficient room for quiet thinking and contemplation, which can enable deeper, cooler consideration of how challenges and opportunities can be best addressed."
Hartle and Hawking derived a formula describing the whole shuttlecock—the so-called "wave function of the universe" that encompasses the entire past, present, and future at once—making moot all contemplation of seeds of creation, a creator, or any transition from a time before.
"The character had suffered with depression for a long time, and [the producers] got in touch with me and said they wanted to develop a suicide contemplation storyline," she says, highlighting how ideal it was that they brought her in at the very beginning.
"Alaskans" is a documentary series about the last families allowed to live in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and it is utterly unlike all those other Alaska-set reality shows; it's not particularly story-driven, and there are long stretches of silence and contemplation.
The fruits of that contemplation are the discovery, or the invention of some small principle of harmony and order that may be isolated from that disorder which obscures it, and the subjection of that discovery those poetic laws which at last make it possible. . . .
The ornamental "We Know Very Little" likewise demanded my aesthetic contemplation of emergence, suggesting a vegetal generative force-field of reverberations that resonate like a web of interconnected intensities, something that resonates with my interest in Classical Greek poetry, where things often become other things.
It's a heartwarming contemplation of a holiday that is often misunderstood—and a loving tribute to the sense of humor at the heart of Jewish cultural identity, one that's at once deeply self-deprecating and fiercely defensive of the things we mock about ourselves.
"After the Party" by the Menzingers, an outfit that specializes in a sort of blue-collar, unflamboyant style, is a contemplation of a new, less frantic phase of life — a record that finds them examining the past as feverishly as they push toward the future.
These sensory cues are meant not so much to provoke hunger as to invite contemplation and nostalgia — for, say, the bright coin of the harvest moon, or the rings left on the surface of the water after a frog has disappeared into a pond.
" Jefferson continued: "When I contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation, and humble myself before the magnitude of the undertaking.
But think of all those countless thousands of spectators who thrilled to the "natural magic" of Barker's Panorama, standing in silent contemplation, traveling to a distant place for a few minutes before venturing back out into the chaos and smog of the great city.
"We're forgotten and because we're poor, people think we're unimportant," laments BarbiAnn Maynard, the woman agitating for clean water in eastern Kentucky, as she sits in her favourite contemplation spot—a boulder atop a reclaimed coal mine that offers a spectacular vista of the mountains.
There's no time (or space) for measured aesthetic contemplation, it's all about seeing as much as you can as quickly as possible before your eyes glaze over and you can't tell the difference anymore between the text paintings of Barbara Kruger and David Shrigley.
Taking 25 objects into the dark, low-ceilinged exhibition space and isolating them in identically sized, equally spaced display cabinets with single spotlights, not only enables close contemplation of each item's story and unique visual properties, but makes for a thrillingly dramatic, intimate viewing experience.
Staring into the circle is supposed to provoke contemplation of the void, and perhaps get the viewer to consider the great unknowable mysteries of the universe—or, you know, just lead them to take a spill like some kind of real-life Wile E. Coyote.
Jarrar's strength as an artist lies in how he is able to draw in an audience while making it clear that his art is not a spectacle; his art is serious and worthy of contemplation and often moves viewers to concretely engage with issues raised.
Every other character in Ant-Man and the Wasp possesses a certain degree of nuance that's absent from Burch, which, in the film's contemplation of the nature of evil, starts to draw Hank into the question of who Ant-Man and the Wasp's villain really is.
"I ask that our quiet contemplation stir courage in the members of this body to ensure the freedom of our students, the freedom to learn without fear, and to take action to secure the freedom of all Americans to live in communities with gun violence," he said.
We truly hope, for Viall's sake, that he can quickly get eliminated from Dancing With the Stars and return to the life he so clearly desires: One of quiet contemplation and privacy, with the love of his life that he met on a reality dating TV show.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Cannabis Culture Lounge has everything a pothead might need to feel right at home: $3 marijuana buds, bongs for rent, bags of Skittles and Doritos for sale, and black leather couches where customers can recline in zoned-out contemplation in a pungent haze.
A leather-clad figure with shorn pink hair, puppet Acker goes through a series of absurdist conversations and events with puppet renditions of Melgaard's mother, father and sister — plus lit incense, strobe lights, and a plastic shark — reflecting her literary persona of erotic and existential contemplation.
The eventual reveal of the Buffy/Angel play-acting is well done, and the fallout for their relationship is believable, but the scheme doesn't really hold together upon contemplation — meaning "Enemies" relies a bit more on TV-writing trickery than the truly great Buffy episodes do.
Just another night of coming home from work, changing into comfies and flopping on the couch in front of the TV. Those are times for eating something easy to prepare and drinking something simple and moderately priced, wines that do not require rapt attention or prolonged contemplation.
Rather than offer objects for contemplation—as Bernini or Rodin or even expansive modernists such as Giacometti and David Smith did—minimalist artists induce acute self-consciousness, making us aware of where we are in a given space and how our sensations alter as we move.
The novel is an extended-family saga, a history of New England's candlepin bowling, a burlesque chronicle of American oddballs, a contemplation of the role of the artist, a comedy of accidental deaths, a tragedy of accidental lives and a fairy tale, fractured and fanciful and dark.
Oval-shaped, with more drawings on ledger paper running along the walls like a massive frieze, this sanctuary compels you to roam in a circular motion to observe the illustrations, although a simple bench echoing the egg shape stands in the center of the room, also inviting seated contemplation.
Binge culture doesn't allow for that same kind of viewer contemplation—we sit with characters for hours over a weekend or late at night for ungodly amounts of time, but just as quick as they enter our lives, so too do we shuffle them out, making room for others.
Saying too much, frankly, risks spoiling the sharp turns that the narrative takes, but the result is sobering -- inviting contemplation about the very nature of what makes us who we are, as well as the horrifying notion that people might have exploited children, with no say in the matter.
The Democratic debates so far have had a definite note of this: Serious contemplation of public policy issues is dismissed as wonkish, unless of course the politician can follow it up with a pithy sound bite or, better yet, a dubious human-interest story often difficult to fact-check.
These new works are best enjoyed through extended looking and contemplation.. The new drawings, all untitled, reacquainted me with Gober's haunting headless torso, after having recently been transfixed by its metamorphosis in the seminal "Slides of a Changing Painting" (1982–83) at the Met Breuer's inaugural exhibition Unfinished.
If the Mole's Town and Braavos sequences revealed some schematic contemplation on the show's fallout, this scene counts on our past familiarity with the backstory behind the followers of R'hllor (they're nigh-immortal witches) and Varys (he's a skeptic who only grudgingly believes in otherworldly things) for its drama.
After a packed week of shows and events (including the raucous amfAR dinner Sunday night, where Jennifer Garner, Naomi Campbell, Donatella Versace, Adrien Brody and others bid up a storm at an auction), it was of little surprise that some guests were seeking a moment of solace and contemplation.
On both Friday and Saturday, members of the space-enabled research group of the M.I.T. Media Lab will present "Earthrise: A 50 Year Contemplation," a pop-up installation intended to inspire the same awe-struck response astronauts had to the famous image of Earth captured during Apollo 8.
Quiet contemplation can be a tool for success: "Everything begins and ends with stillness," Oprah Winfrey told Fast Company in 2015 of her morning routine, "a conscious awareness of my presence within the greater presence of all...." This Alexa skill walks users through five minutes worth of exercise.

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