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With Mindreau on violin, augmented by Collier’s live sound design, it imbues the show with a meditativeness that the text means to but does not supply.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2019

Those streaming it at home may enjoy it just as much for its meditativeness, or for the promise of a personal tour — complete with historical anecdotes — from Mr. Redford.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2018

In the novel he used I.R.S. auditing as a metaphor for the meditativeness of valuable work, the prairie as a metaphor for meditativeness.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2016

The Turks are much nearer to the English: the same gravity of temperament, the same meditativeness, the same sternness of principle.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

This meditativeness on the passing nature of things is one of the old moods of mankind.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert