contemplators

Or maybe not, maybe there are some sunny contemplators, yes, like Laurie Colwin, who looked about and saw sweetness and light and delicious food, and then she died and once I met her daughter, which was odd, because it was in a completely irrelevant context, but within minutes she had brought up the fact that she was Laurie Colwin's daughter and her mother had died.

Archive 2008-07-01 Becca 2008

Or maybe not, maybe there are some sunny contemplators, yes, like Laurie Colwin, who looked about and saw sweetness and light and delicious food, and then she died and once I met her daughter, which was odd, because it was in a completely irrelevant context, but within minutes she had brought up the fact that she was Laurie Colwin's daughter and her mother had died.

Pets, Kayaks, and Isadora Wing Becca 2008

One might almost say, that by a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is probable that the contemplators are contemplated.

Les Miserables 2008

An attachment like some invisible rope handed down through generations of worshippers and contemplators.

Iraqis to Bush: "You have left us with nothing" 2007

Along these lines, the unethical contemplators also rated the value of cleaning products signifigantly higher than their more ethical counterparts.

Merrill Markoe: Yippee! Its Zover 2006

In order to have a place, they have to be understood as something other than what they were—great contemplators of the whole of nature who understood themselves to be of interest only to the extent that they told the truth about it If they were wrong or have been completely surpassed, then they themselves would say that they are of no interest.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

In order to have a place, they have to be understood as something other than what they were—great contemplators of the whole of nature who understood themselves to be of interest only to the extent that they told the truth about it If they were wrong or have been completely surpassed, then they themselves would say that they are of no interest.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

A handful of worshipers (more accurately, perhaps, contemplators) squatted before an altar at the far end.

Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000

They were the tribe's spiritual leaders, contemplators of time, being, even question.

In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

A handful of worshipers (more accurately, perhaps, contemplators) squatted before an altar at the far end.

Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983