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"ruminative" Definitions
  1. tending to think deeply and carefully about things

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The Futurists chewed over the issue at more ruminative length.
And he too found his way toward a ruminative, personal style.
Becky was in a ruminative mood when she exited Vivien's house.
Many explore stark contrasts, as ruminative searching lines broke into wild bursts.
" McCary, a ruminative man who directs many of Mooney's pre-taped "S.
Each room looked out onto the medieval and ruminative Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal.
But being ruminative is not what the Beastie Boys are all about.
It's impressionistically ruminative enough to feel like a mini-Terrence Malick movie.
Absence is the novel's great motif, the subject of its ruminative investigation.
Mr. Kahane is deeply in his element here, sketching vignettes with ruminative grace.
Every moment matters in this ruminative yet somehow intense and harmonically piercing music.
They make gauzy, ruminative music that waxes existential over lilting hip-hop beats.
The acting here smooths out the blocky, talky, implausibly ruminative aspects of Laverty's writing.
While Jean is well known for his irreverent, teasing nature, Pierre is more ruminative.
It's taken big storytelling chances and embraced a ruminative quality in its performances and visuals.
However, the neurological machinery that has helped us survive has also rendered us distinctively ruminative.
"I'm just asking you what dreams, what dumb, silly, fantastical dreams you might have had before or during the life you settled for, the life you actually have," asks one character of her husband, in a particularly ruminative hour of an incredibly ruminative show.
The second movement, marked "lugubrious and sad," is thick with ruminative melodic lines and heaving harmonies.
The first movement opens with a ruminative yet restless violin line, evocative of improvised folk singing.
Merida's success will rest on people embracing a site that is far more ruminative than espn.
There was plenty of Mr. Thibaudet's trademark refinement in his playing of lacy, ruminative, lyrical passages.
The voice actors rise to the occasion, often portraying multiple emotions in a single, ruminative monologue.
Mr. Bogost, a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, waxes more ruminative.
Caroline Shaw's "Taxidermy" was a sometimes ruminative, sometimes riotous piece played mostly on rapped flower pots.
Now, Zuck is on a media tour and he's refining his ruminative, valueless answers by the day.
Chaput's is ruminative and strains for optimism; Esolen waxes poetic in the service of a cultural jeremiad.
Eight hours of runtime means ruminative takes, lots of silence and people considering their lot in life.
Unfolding in steady, ruminative contrapuntal lines, this modal music practically invited the audience to settle in and listen.
The movie, a blend of personal essay and greatest-hits album, finds her in a retrospective, ruminative mood.
This kind of ruminative looking is the opposite of the narcissistic experience of selfies and shiny, reflective surfaces.
Coates balances action and exposition expertly throughout these first four issues, though his more ruminative moments remain most compelling.
He tackles big, capitalized themes — Power, Art, Virtue, Evil — but his films speak in whispers, murmurs and ruminative pauses.
The ruminative "Crack the Case" tries to broker a deal between various warring parties in a culture of divisiveness.
But his ruminative visions of nude women were deemed pornographic and too fanciful for such a public, erudite setting.
The narrator of this ruminative and amusing novel is a cultural anthropologist whose area of specialty is the family photograph.
But for much of "Vi Gnin," a ruminative original confronting the heartache of migration and family separation, he is alone.
Her characters are complex, self-contained and often withdrawn, but their ruminative interior states lend the narratives a quiet luminosity.
How could an artist this smart, this prescient, this frank, transparent, curious, ruminative and courageous — this funny — escape your notice?
An album like Ruins comes together through extensive rumination, and in its creation encourages a similarly ruminative mindset in the listener.
Whole stretches of the ruminative "Purgatorio" movement are diaphanous and mystical, interspersed with chorale-like passages and an grimly industrious fugue.
The row of Byron Kim's beguiling, blue-and-white Sunday Paintings (21993–present) in the entry hallway sets a ruminative, airy tone.
Since 2011's "You're Getting Old," which could have easily functioned as a series finale, South Park has grown slightly more ruminative.
The default mode network, he notes, is associated with ruminative thinking, as Lotto says — but it's also associated with memory and storytelling.
With its bronzed and golden rendering of flesh, along with its luxuriant purples and greens, the painting is a ruminative, decadent miracle.
It all comes to a head (with James Newton Howard's violin-heavy, ruminative score) in perhaps the greatest sequence Shyamalan has ever filmed.
These are interspersed with short, ruminative works composed and recorded by the keyboardist and guitarist Nitin Sawhney, whose music synthesizes diverse cultural influences.
He's right that there's an element of bewilderment — or, at least, the modesty of maturity — in this more ruminative, less rhythmically moored take.
Hearty yet shadowy, fanfarelike orchestral bursts alternated with his wistful playing of ruminative passages for violin, rich with Slavic fervor and plaintive lyricism.
He also wrote feature articles, notably a ruminative, closely observed series in 2005 called "Summer at Ruby's," about a dive bar in Coney Island.
But after the searing two-minute "Red Eye Blues," it ends with three more ruminative tracks, each a love song one way or another.
Accepting that an "old" mind goes brittle and slow, develops holes in one's memory, settles into its ruts of ruminative repetition... and so on.
While this is well-trodden fictional territory, Warren's ruminative exploration of a fragile, often toxic relationship is handled so skillfully it feels entirely fresh.
Whatever your thoughts about the practicality of his ideas, Musk combined with the already ruminative TED stage medium is basically non-stop brain bombs.
In 2013, Jace Clayton, who often performs as DJ /rupture, released "The Julius Eastman Memory Depot," ruminative remixes of solo-piano takes on Eastman.
Solnit's ruminative, lucid collection of essays on gender includes pieces on the dangers of silence and the shifting public responses to violence against women.
Tomasz Stanko, a renowned Polish trumpeter whose ruminative playing made him one of Europe's most respected jazz musicians, died on July 21994 in Warsaw.
"Part 10" is slower and more ruminative than the last few episodes of Twin Peaks, and it moves to its own rhythm as well.
A radio commission gave life to this darkly ruminative work, shot through with flashes of rhythmic exuberance, in 1981, when the composer was 25.
But my second viewing confirmed that, yep, this was one lackadaisical episode of TV. I don't mind when Walking Dead goes a little ruminative.
But "Calypso" reveals the later-day Mr. Sedaris to be more ruminative, more serious, and a little less inclined to play everything for laughs.
When she made the turn from the romping third variation to the ruminative one that followed, she sounded equally in command of each mode.
Her other compositions include works for traditional classical forces, like a ruminative violin concerto and a restless string trio, both inflected with maqam modes.
In a performance that conveyed the alternately mysterious, ruminative, celestial and fitful elements of this restless score, the symphony proved a fitting memorial piece.
Providence producer, The Range, has shared the ruminative video for "Five Four," the second track to be made public off his forthcoming sophomore LP Potential.
Mr. Green also composed the melancholy bluegrass-tinged music (performed by him, Catherine McRae and Kate Ryan) that accompanies Mr. Findlay's raffish, ruminative guided tour.
"Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" is a passionately political film, aflame with rage in spite of its director's measured, ruminative tone of voice.
Consider seeking help from a therapist if you experience what Summerville calls "ruminative regret," the negative thoughts that arise repeatedly, unbidden, alongside anxiety and depression.
Don Pullen's 1975 solo piano improvisation "Suite (Sweet) Malcolm (Part 1 Memories and Gunshots)" begins and ends as a jazz ballad, tenderly ruminative and soulful.
It is sublimely difficult to read for someone who is not familiar with the genre of Success Studies, especially in its ruminative and philosophical first half.
Among this month's artists is Kimbra, a jazz-inflected indie-pop singer from New Zealand, and Mirah, a local chamber-pop upstart with beautifully ruminative lyrics.
And there are more pathological, or at least more chronic, sources of mental load, such as the ruminative thought patterns characteristic of stress, anxiety and depression.
But that ruminative quality can also make it trying at times, especially if you're not 100 percent on board with the show's internal, emotion-driven stories.
Between 2009 and 2011 alone, the quartet premiered her ruminative, mercurial "Frayed," her harp quintet "Filigree in Textile," and "Blood Rose," which also featured Ms. Sollek.
And so it goes, as the playful yet competitive first section segues into the ruminative yet anxious second, followed by a jerky episode with fractured rhythms.
He has a side gig, writing pop songs with Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, which might surprise fans of Father John Misty's ruminative, smutty, increasingly-soft rock.
The dollmonger carried dozens of them, a towering bouquet of dolls, each blue-eyed and blond-haired, dressed in pink and affecting an erotically ruminative expression.
A ruminative hour could have given us a chance to understand Jon's state of mind before he declares that his watch is ended and he's walking away.
The only claim I can make with confidence is that "The Staircase," ruminative and humane to the end, remains one of the finest examples of this genre.
To galvanizing yet ruminative effect, this disc brings together the bright, witty, unexpectedly heartfelt music of two Central European composers: Haydn (1732-1809) and Ligeti (1923-2006).
But for as much as I like those shows, I loved Mad Men's more ruminative drama, and I'd love to see it come back in a big way.
" The release celebrates the Berlin imprint's five-year anniversary, and for the occasion Landberg has composed a ruminative work that cyclically melts in and out of focus. "Buchla.
Green adds some heavy-duty dialogue, in the final reel, about "the fracture of the human soul," but Christie's puzzles are too flimsy to bear such ruminative weight.
Psychedelics have been shown to help people battling depression and anxiety by disrupting ruminative thought patterns, and enabling people to connect more deeply to the world around them.
In this Territory Studio-created, Marti Romances-directed video, the glossy, ruminative track soundtracks a lone astronaut's interstellar journey through what feels like a boundless segment of space.
While the subject matter is undoubtedly dark, this novel is a ruminative, incredibly moving reflection on the impossible heartbreak of waiting for a loved one to die. —T.
As in many of Ms. Saariaho's works, whole stretches of the score come across as dreamlike, continually alive with color and inner details, but ruminative-sounding over all.
On Life Metal, the band takes its monolithic, ruminative brand of drone metal and ramps up the density and complexity (see: the uncharacteristically vocal-driven "Between Sleipner's Breaths").
Some viewers will be charmed by this ruminative stance; others, less well-disposed, may ask themselves if Bale has forgotten his next line and is calmly awaiting a prompt.
On Friday, Attias will release "Échos la Nuit," an album of slow, ruminative solo recordings on which he plays both the alto saxophone (his primary instrument) and the piano.
The first season of Westworld, HBO's ruminative series about a theme park inhabited by robotic "hosts," focuses on the physical damage that the human "guests" inflict on their artificial counterparts.
And it rarely finds cinematic ways to convey the spiritual longing and/or torment expressed by its various characters, preferring instead to address these matters and others in ruminative dialogue.
"The Vegetarian" reads as a parable about quiet resistance and its consequences; it's also a ruminative probing of Korean culture, in which questions of agency and conformity have particular resonance.
Ten years in the making, In the Last Days of the City is a ruminative, semi-autobiographical work about a man trying to make a film about his hometown, Cairo.
After the program, all of the participants reported fewer depressive symptoms and those with depression also reported fewer ruminative thoughts, according to their research, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry.
It's easy to forgive James for keeping to a pace as ruminative and slow as the age he lived in; with Banville, it feels willful to the point of perversity.
This bassist is about to release "Lys/Morke," a ruminative and openhearted album on which his only accompaniment is the ambient sound he recorded on the Norwegian island of Fleinvaer.
But he differs from them in the ruminative and sensitive qualities of his work, which suggest at once the sagacity of an old mind and the vulnerability of a young heart.
"It can lead to ruminative thoughts that interfere with our productivity, and it can impact our bodies by stimulating inflammatory mechanisms that lead to chronic illness and accelerate aging," he said.
His 10 string quartets, for example, are dramatic, sometimes incendiary scores with hard-driving and often tense fast movements as well as ruminative slow movements — with occasional quotations from folk melodies.
But there's something ruminative about all of these roles, each of which finds him playing an old man looking back on his sins and successes, judging the world and measuring his life.
Twenty-five years earlier, a session on Vietnam had become intensely emotional and confessional as classmates recalled their war or their antiwar struggles; this time, we were more retrospective, reflective and ruminative.
It's no wonder that some writers claim a different territory for fiction, a more ruminative space that cannot be occupied by media that demand big plots and bigger twists to attract eyeballs.
Both scenes allow for some tiny, ruminative moments, ones that give the actors something to play and that underscore how hard it would be to live in a world coursing with such brutality.
This week Jakub Jozef Orlinski, 26, won a hearty ovation for his melting performance of a ruminative aria from Paola Prestini's recent opera "Gilgamesh," part of the American Composers Orchestra's 40th-birthday concert.
If he was a little too ruminative for comfort during the reflective slow movement (Jaap van Zweden indulged Mr. Trifonov in this), he drew me in with the tender lyricism of his playing.
The complicated details of Romei's schemes and Shira's past start to pile up and will satisfy lovers of plot, but the novel is at its strongest when Shira's voice is loosely playful and ruminative.
Though it might seem counterintuitive, Ms. Saariaho's most ruminative and mystical orchestral works are often best perceived in large, open spaces, where myriad sounds can be dispersed to create an enveloping experience for listeners.
Thom, a self-described anarchist and "drag-dance sensation" who comes across as rather low-key online (oversized horn rim glasses, ruminative pauses), said that as a storyteller she found straight-up realism limiting.
The film is a visceral, ruminative, and emotionally satisfying epilogue in which the broken Jesse reconciles with his past and searches for the hope and humanity he'd lost—or, rather, been denied by Walt.
Brown's colors project the onlooker backwards in time in a slow, ruminative pursuit of her influences — she is much more than a painter slammed sideways by the whizz-bang-wow of the passing moment.
Mac DeMarco (Sunday) Under his stereotypically trendy guise of wrinkled oversized shirts, unkempt hair and a haughty gaze, this psych-pop rocker offers indie-pop chorales with moping, ruminative lyrics that seldom veer toward mawkish.
Mr. Cox, who settled in Australia as a young man in the 21984s, was known internationally for his ruminative, sympathetic, sometimes autobiographical explorations of the lives of marginalized people: the lonely, the aging, the dying.
This beautiful, ruminative family drama focuses on a man convicted of the murder of his high school girlfriend who is released after 19 years on death row when new DNA evidence appears to exonerate him.
Comparison to Nicole Eisenman is a natural, and while there are some similarities in thematic material and compositional method, Wulff's view of the world is more outwardly directed than that allowed by Eisenman's ruminative temperament.
"Natural sounds help you relax and also help your brain sort of get away from these anxious, ruminative thought patterns," says lead author Cassandra Gould van Praag, a researcher at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
From the life-after-prison tale Rectify to the French undead drama The Returned, the network is full of ruminative shows that are brilliant but seem designed to play better in a later Netflix binge.
That leaves behind a slightly more ruminative episode than the others we've seen this season, one that returns to some of the "cost of warfare" moments from the season premiere (that the show has mostly dropped).
Valeria Luiselli charts the couple's intellectual concerns and political commitments (and her own) in ruminative, layered prose that deliberately digresses more than it progresses, with a riffing, essayistic logic, subtitles that become refrains, and minimal plot.
The album lasts only thirty-seven minutes, and there are a few dead ends: the title track is a ruminative love song in which we wait, along with Simon, for a redemptive chorus that never arrives.
Later in the video, he added a ruminative new verse to the song, rapping, "Went through some things, but I couldn't imagine my kids stuck at the border," directly addressing the current administration's divisive immigration policies.
Win: The Hateful Eight Place: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Show: Bridge of Spies Should win: Burwell has long been one of my favorite film composers, and his ruminative work on Carol would be a fitting winner.
"Future" is closer to his earlier work, with barked brags (the excellent "Super Trapper") and ruminative soul-searching that veers toward the psychedelic ("I don't ever walk on land/I float off Earth, always float off Earth").
In "Here and Now," the ruminative drama from the filmmaker Fabien Constant, Sarah Jessica Parker is Vivienne, a jazz vocalist preparing to release a new album and celebrate 25 years of performing at the Birdland jazz club.
Most of this ruminative volume is instead about Khan-Cullors's life as a child and a teenager, when the heavy pull of shame and sadness kept her tethered to a more private world of confusion and pain.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The texture and peculiarity of history, place, and the everyday color a ruminative set of short films in this year's Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
In an eloquent, ruminative discussion on stage before a few hundred supporters at a hotel that hosted his Obama Foundation—people drawn from across America and beyond—he set out how he hopes to encourage greater civic engagement.
Natalie Babbitt, a celebrated children's author and illustrator whose ruminative novel "Tuck Everlasting," about a family's immortality, found a fervent readership and inspired two films and a Broadway musical, died on Monday at her home in Hamden, Conn.
I drove this way weeks earlier in the company of a ruminative medicine man with a handsome flush of white hair and a buckskin cowboy hat, and he talked of the melancholy that gripped his generation in autumn.
During the interview, Pasolini, played with melancholy poise by Willem Dafoe, is in a pessimistic, ruminative mood, contemplating a society so mired in corruption, violence and dishonesty that the only hope for the future may lie in its destruction.
George R.R. Martin's fourth and fifth books, A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons, are more ruminative, much more about the parts of the journey where the hero doubts herself, only to emerge stronger on the other side.
In one moving passage, delivered with a ruminative gravity by Mr. Morton, Gregory recalls his friendship with the civil rights activist Medgar Evers, with whom he was about to make an appearance when he learned that his young son had died.
His follow-up, a ruminative and sensually-evocative adaptation of James Baldwin's novel, "If Beale Street Could Talk," was released this month to rapturous reviews -- and some speculative chatter surrounding a new round of Oscar nominations for Jenkins in January.
Throw that aggressively lo-fi hardcore into a blender with the likes of Indian Summer and Policy of 3, two acts who dared to insert long, ruminative sections into their songs, and you have a rough approximation of early Saetia.
But those dreading 50th-anniversary greatest-hits medleys will find solace, enlightenment and surprise in João Moreira Salles's "In the Intense Now," a bittersweet, ruminative documentary essay composed of footage from the era accompanied by thoughtful, disarmingly personal voice-over narration.
Adding to the intrigue, both artists' solo contributions to the exhibition evince a ruminative tranquility that occupies a different tonal register than the collaborative works of toilet humor ("Toilet Joke I," 2020; "Study for Toilet Joke II," 2020) that bookend them.
Along with Douglass, seen giving speeches but also alone, ruminative, in a forest and along a windy shore, the work foregrounds the women in his life: Anna, as ever in the home, and the white British women who supported his work.
As the novel's narrator, Sister Johanna dutifully outlines the events of her life in a manner that, at best, takes on the ruminative, poetic quality of whispered confidence, and, at worst, is the painfully formal, stilted address of an elderly nun.
JON CARAMANICA "No Halo" is the opening track and one of the best songs from the new Sorority Noise album "You're Not as ______ as You Think," a lovely and ruminative affair full of scratchy angst, murmured reflection and uncertain resolution.
One of the sturdiest outfits in jazz, it places his coolly understated style of drumming in an ever-evolving, ruminative conversation with three musicians a generation his junior: the tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, the pianist Ethan Iverson and the bassist Ben Street.
Note how the double-stopped chords at the beginning of the Sarabande begin like a sequence of color splashes on a dark background, then gradually combine into a graceful gesture that lands, unexpectedly serious, on a ruminative low note at 11:00.
While Ms Dean's use of 3D printing proves she is not in protest about the modern world, many of her films certainly have a richly nostalgic feeling to them—being ruminative portraits of ageing artists, writers and actors who themselves represent a fast-vanishing age.
It is a testament to Le Guin's ruminative, austere style that, even though her fantasy is filled with suspense and spells and other flashy hallmarks of the genre, much of this book involves two people talking on a boat as they journey across the world.
"Milkman"—told in an unspooling, digressive, and fretfully ruminative manner that bears a rough semblance to stream of consciousness but is much easier to follow—is set in an urban war zone where carrying around plastic explosives seems less aberrant than using the sidewalk as a study.
While AMC passed on the ruminative show, Rectify eventually found a home at AMC's sister network Sundance, which has turned it into the cornerstone of its efforts to produce TV reminiscent of arthouse theaters — hyper-specific deep dives into under-explored corners of America and overseas imports.
" In the end, though, Blu is still the star we all have quietly rooted for him to be, painting portraits of characters ranging from the kid at the liquor store to politicians to himself sitting in his apartment watching it all on the bouncy, ruminative "Atlantis.
His title character (here the enthusiastic, intense tenor Allan Clayton, unafraid of going guttural) is maniacally disheveled and antic, not deep or ruminative, and while I left the opera house glad to have seen the piece, it was oddly difficult to pinpoint just what it's about.
As opposed to the stark and direct tone of her earlier works, which were short and easily summarizable documentations of performance stunts, the films from this subsequent phase are ruminative and essayistic, and channel Chang's penchant for performative bizarrerie into intricate, large-scale meditations on a place or theme.
In some ways, this ruminative exhibition, "Beverly Buchanan — Ruins and Rituals," is an odd fit for this powerfully affirmative program; Ms. Buchanan (1940-2015) made haunting sculptures, earthworks, photographs and drawings inspired by the architecture of the rural South and its deeply embedded histories of injustice, poverty and loss.
His monumental "Ten Freedom Summers" suite was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, and last year he released two celebrated albums: the bristling, crepuscular "A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke," in duo with Vijay Iyer, and "America's National Parks," an equally diffuse and ruminative recording, featuring a quintet.
"I was happy that the people bidding on it didn't demean it because it came from a female," said the artist, who tells her life story in an intimate, ruminative documentary by Veronica Gonzalez Peña, "Pat Steir: Artist," premiering at Lincoln Center in the Jewish Film Festival on Jan. 19.
Her Grammys performance was no different, a resolutely trippy and immersive presentation of Lemonade deep cuts "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles" that doubled as a ruminative meditation on motherhood (she is pregnant again, in case you haven't read the news or, uh, didn't notice) and stood out as the night's true showstopper performance.
All those years in Norway seem to have endowed Ferguson with his own ruminative propensities, and he remains alert to the possibility that, like the even older myth that painted the Vikings as barbarians who did nothing besides maraud, Scandinavian melancholy may be more an imposition of outsiders than an accurate cultural reflection.
This means, in the first place, that narrative momentum is less essential to it than the ruminative atmosphere that envelopes people and events, and secondly, that the book's mercurial tone can turn on a dime from lyricism to humor and back again, just as the characters shuttle between sensual abandon and neurotic self-flagellation.
Self-criticism "can lead to ruminative thoughts that interfere with our productivity, and it can impact our bodies by stimulating inflammatory mechanisms that lead to chronic illness and accelerate aging," Dr. Richard Davidson, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Times earlier this year.
But Mr. Villaraigosa saw those ambitions dashed last week in a dispiriting third-place finish in the primary for governor of California, a showing that not only eliminated him from contention for that office — but probably, as he acknowledged in a ruminative interview at his home in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday, from elected life.
In the meantime, on this afternoon of the conspiracy against the kid with no name, the others went from blatantly murderous to ruminative and confused, and their plan for assassination climaxed in nothing more violent than sneaking up behind the boy on tiptoe and shooting rubber bands at the back of his head while he dedicated all his focus to "The Newlywed Game" and refused to flinch, refused to give them the satisfaction.

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