Crossword-Solution: PENSIVENESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pensiveness | n. | The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “PENSIVENESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dreamy quality | 1 answer |
| From high prices to reflection? | 1 answer |
| introspection | 13 answers |
| memories | 13 answers |
| Emotions | 17 answers |
| "__ ideas?" | 20 answers |
| Opinions | 25 answers |
| contemplation | 41 answers |
| thoughts | 41 answers |
| thoughtfulness | 47 answers |
| Thought | 65 answers |
| Reflection | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PENSIVENESS (5)
The sportive sunlight—feebly sportive, at best, in the predominant pensiveness of the day and scene—withdrew itself as they came nigh, and left the spots where it had danced the drearier, because they had hoped to find them bright.
Costello; “it’s not their merit.” “No,” rejoined Winterbourne, with something of that pensiveness to which his aunt had alluded.
The sad sweet pensiveness of her eyes--the pallor of her clear skin--then, that splash of bright red, artificial, bold, defiant--the contrast of the combination seemed somehow to tell the story of her life her past no less than her present.
She walked as delicately as if she had been bred in town, and as firmly as if she had been bred in the country; she seemed one who dimly knew her appearance to be attractive, but who retained some of the charm of being ignorant of that fact by forgetting it in a general pensiveness.
She was from that time delivered from the violence of tempestuous sorrow, and sunk into silent pensiveness and gloomy tranquillity.
Quotes with PENSIVENESS (3)
You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.
The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully explained before they passed away; the stroll down to the beach to breathe the sea-air, soft and warm on the sandy shore even at the end of November; the great long misty sea-line touching the tender-coloured sky; the white sail of a distant boat turning silver in some pale sunb…
I was always amazed at Cambridge how quickly people appeared to take offence at everything I said, but now I see plainly that it was not my words they hated - it was this fairy face. The dark alchemy of this face turns all my gentle human emotions into fierce fairy vices. Inside I am all despair, but this face shows only fairy scorn. My remorse becomes fairy fury and my pensiveness is turned to fairy cunning.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1976–1999).