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Example sentences for: pensive

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"A pensive President Clinton bites his lower lip in the Oval Office after ordering the carpet bombing of Capitol Hill.
Michelangelo’s greatest work here is reserved for two minor members of the family, Lorenzo’s grandson, Lorenzo the Duke of Urbino, portrayed as a pensive Roman soldier above two allegorical figures of Dawn (female) and Dusk (male), and his son, Giuliano the Duke of Nemours, more warrior-like above figures of Night (female) and Day (male).
Hideous high-rise ministry buildings erected in the 1950s by Batista and a giant, tapering concrete obelisk — looking like a rocket launch pad with a pensive José Martí at its foot — provide the scenery.
Place, pensive, wails his fall whose presence was her pride;Time crieth out, My ebb is come; his life was my spring tide.Fame mourns in that she lost the ground of her reports;Each living wight laments his lack, and all in sundry sorts.
Reporters saw him only as a cold-blooded killer; they missed his pensive side.