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Tom Berenger, who plays Longstreet in the film, brilliantly emphasizes his character’s brooding, deep-eyed pensiveness.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023

The big screen at Stadium Australia cut to Kerr barely a minute into the match, and went back to her several times during the game as she looked at various stages of pensiveness.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023

There is a guilelessness to Dunst, a sort of offbeat pensiveness that makes her an interesting presence, both on screen and off.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2015

Re; Chris Hemsworth--"he does have.. a natural pensiveness bordering on melancholy that creates a nice frisson with his bulging muscles and heartthrob looks."

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2015

And the neophyte seemed, while he murmured over the burthen, as if about to imitate the pensiveness of De Morla.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery