One of us cautious and pensive, one of us quick and outspoken.
Hemingway is shown on p. 89, pensive with rifle at a pheasant shoot in Idaho.
Venus was the quiet one: pensive and observant of everything around her.
Another image features the First Lady in a pensive pose, wearing a black Michael Kors sweater and ball skirt.
It is, alternately, a provocative and pensive soap opera that puts the gothic in Southern Gothic.
Do you see how pensive she is, with her cheek resting on her hand?
The pale beauty of her pensive face won her friends wherever she went.
Nothing could be firmer than the tone of this letter, in spite of its pensive gentleness.
Florence was pensive, and an air of painful depression hung about her.
When Macquart was on his rounds, she passed her time in lazy, pensive idleness.
late 14c., from Old French pensif "thoughtful, distracted, musing" (11c.), from penser "to think," from Latin pensare "weigh, consider," frequentative of pendere "weigh" (see pendant). Related: Pensively; pensiveness.
