ruminative

1 The woman was terrified of having to look at or touch her boyfriend’s feet, causing physical symptoms—sweating, trembling hands, heart palpitations, ringing in her ears—followed by ruminating thoughts and a deep sense of shame.

2 This ruminative 12-minute score begins and ends with an elegiac melody, inspired by Hindustani musical styles.

3 Unfolding in steady, ruminative contrapuntal lines, this modal music practically invited the audience to settle in and listen.

4 Joel wrote it during a transitional moment in his life: It was around the time of his 40th birthday and he was feeling a little ruminative.

5 This is not a grief-stricken memory piece, but a ruminative and agitated reflection on life.

6 It began rather awkwardly, however, with a heavy-handed performance of Bach's Fifth English Suite, in which a sense of ruminative introspection intruded upon the music's linear clarity.

7 There’s a futurist slant to its stride, no less on several jazz standards than on Mr. Iyer’s darkly ruminative compositions, which flesh out stark rhythmic ideas with a deep, gathering intrigue.

8 These ruminative and wide-ranging essays explore Messud’s growth as a person and as a thoughtful literary citizen.

9 He's been pushing audiences lately — his new single "Never Sleep Alone" is a twisty, ruminative progressive house number that's equal parts invigorating and melancholy.

10 “There’s a more ruminative part that is usually done softly,” Williams said.

11 Elsewhere, though, “Sugaregg” has welcome moments of lightness, like the bouncy “Where to Start,” or the cleareyed “Prism,” which freeze frames a ruminative moment: “Ooh, the sun hits a prism/Your ghost in my kitchen.”

12 In a wide-ranging interview, he was by turns quick-witted, acerbic, humorous and ruminative.

13 Taylor's new album as CANT, "Dreams Come True," is one of this year's best, an exploration of vaguely industrial dance music and ruminative songcraft.

14 More placid and ruminative but no less insightful is an anonymous portrait of an old man standing in a rubble-strewn street.

15 Less a mob thriller than a ruminative drama about a life built around orders and betrayals, the movie takes an unusual perspective on a familiar genre but is weighed down by its dull, uneven pace.

16 The second movement, marked “lugubrious and sad,” is thick with ruminative melodic lines and heaving harmonies.

17 This less flashy and performative follow-up plays like a ruminative shuffle through captioned family albums, primed by cyclical mental health dramas.

18 The music — urgent, astringent and ruminative by turns — is some of Mr. Birtwistle’s most direct and potent.

19 He made this slow solo an enthralling, sensuous and ruminative meeting of harmony, melody and meters slow and fast.

20 His version of “Groundhog,” a frisky tune associated with Doc Watson, turns ruminative, almost sinister.

1 好沉思的

contemplative

2 思考的

thoughtful reflective speculative

3 左思右想的

ruminant

4 默想

musing museful musingly reflection rumination contemplate speculate

5 默想的

musing museful

6 思考

thoughtful reflective speculative think thought thinking reflection speculation cerebration reason review reflect nurse speculate philosophize

7 沉思的

cogitabund thoughtful reflective meditative musing wistful broody pensive ruminant reflecting

8 冥思苦想

cudgel your brains rack your brains rack your brain

9 沉思默想的

melancholy ruminant

10 反复思考

chew the cud chew your cud go over in your mind turn over in your mind

11 左思右想

ruminant ruminate

12 苦思冥想

puzzle over

13 沉思

cogitabund thoughtful reflective meditative musing wistful broody pensive ruminant reflecting thoughtfully wistfully reflectively meditatively reflectingly thought meditation contemplation rumination cogitation pensee contemplate meditate brood ruminate cogitate ponder brown study put thinking cap on reflection reflect muse

14 沉思默想

melancholy ruminant study