Weller, in a
ruminative tone, 'but I never heerd o' one as I can call to mind, 'cept the little dirty-faced man in the brown coat; and that was force of habit.
Women have a greater inclination than men for
ruminative thinking, a cognitive style that increases the risk for depression.
Nolen-Hoeksema (1994) proposed that women are more likely to engage in
ruminative coping strategies than are men.
The Culture Code is not a major work of social psychology, as it turns out, but a gregarious,
ruminative professional memoir, offering here and there real insight into the character of our frenetic consumer culture.
You can take a
ruminative pull at your pint of Whippet Molester without hearing so much as a peep from Old Josh or Fred The Burglar as to which horse will be led back in triumph on Friday, March 17.
tive adj 1: Relating to, produced by, or resulting from reflection (syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive,
ruminative.
Ruminative blogs, especially on the topic of architecture, can be tedious beyond imagination.
Smokers have always preferred a less hectic, more
ruminative lifestyle, perfectly suited for the home with the television turned off and the windows wide open.
Or Harris's settled,
ruminative poise may come from her almost total absorption of African American literature that she uses throughout the book to illustrate a point or to support a position.
Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao, 2002), Jia Zhangke's latest feature film, is a poetic,
ruminative drama about two young drifters (first-time actors Wu Qiong as Xiao Ji and Zhao Weiwei as Binbin) and a professional dancer (Platform's Zhao Tao as Qiaoqiao) mired in a provincial backwater.
But the heart of the book is the ecstatic,
ruminative, urgent appreciations of the land she knows so well.
from not being black"), analytical and
ruminative as it ranges over
