ruminate

The narrator, a Nigerian psychiatry student, is emotionally distant, ruminative, and intellectual.

"Do you know, it's rather a pity you don't like me," said Hal, with ruminative frankness.

Everything was in the massive style—even the men—very powerful men, slow, ruminative, silent men.

Mr. Stobell, whose habit was taciturn and ruminative, fixed his dull brown eyes on the ground and thought it over.