It's their quietest, most meditative album, and Ms. Feek's voice is just a touch weaker than at its peak.
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Because of this, veteran puzzlers may find 1,000 Colours to be one of the most meditative puzzles they've ever completed.
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I would venture that in most meditative states some subjectivity remains, as representative of the biological interests of the individual.
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Talk about how you get people to accept that, because America does not seem like the most meditative culture at all.
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The second room contains only one work, the calmest and most meditative of the group, made all the more so by its isolation.
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Dressed in elegant gray-on-gray, she speaks softly of her black-on-black abstraction by Ad Reinhardt, most meditative of Abstract Expressionists.
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On the one hand, I felt as if this audio feedback really did help me free my mind and reach my most meditative state yet.
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For Sinclair, who said his most meditative moments are when he's riding his bike around New York, that's the perfect reflection of life in the city.
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This display of works from nine mostly emerging artists, organized by, and including, Michael Childress, may be the quietest, most meditative group show of the summer.
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From the moment she put a line in the water, Catie was learning to appreciate the pleasures (and weather the frustrations) of the most meditative of outdoor endeavors.
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It might be the most meditative and emblematic entry into the new doomer canon, a book whose protagonist essentially has Franzen's essay running on a loop in her head.
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He evaded the political controversies of the time. His gentleness of character and earnest presentation of the gospel attached him to his people. He was much given to secluding himself, retiring every May into the woods of Hoghton Tower and remaining there a month. Bailey continues that Dr. Halley justly characterises him as the most meditative puritan of Lancashire.
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The results can often recall Seventies Eno at his most meditative and Village Green-era Ray Davies at his most world-sick more than Gorillaz's bounce or Blur's guitar buzz." Chris Schulz of The New Zealand Herald, was a little more critical of the album, writing: "'The hours pass by, just left on repeat,' he mourns on the shuffling broodiness of 'Hostiles'. 'I had a dream you were leaving ... when every atom in the universe is passing through our lives,' he mumbles grumpily on 'The Selfish Giant'. And he saves his biggest mopes for The History of a Cheating Heart, when he complains: 'I carry this on my back.
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Pitchforks Erin Osmon praised "Death Up Close" and "November" and argued that Lay's "vision is clear-eyed, poetic, and for all the ways she channels the greats ... she also chisels her own name in the canon". Writing in Clash, Wilf Skinner commented that "August is best at its most meditative, even if its gravity belies a certain goofiness", and described the album as "more self- assured and hopeful" than Living Water; while Hannah Siden of Exclaim! praised Lay's "unusual choices in some places – playing with tempo, dynamics and instrumentals" and assessed the album as "hypnotic, assured" and "at its best when it locks into moments of relaxed momentum, buoyed by gently driving, repetitive instrumentals". In December 2019, Lay released "Blue" and "We Mend" through the Sub Pop Singles Club.
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