rumination

How else to explain the popularity of a novel so free of plot, so obsessed with existential rumination and recondite philosophy?

What is it about all the rumination, all the anxiety that makes it so hard to sort of stand up for yourself, to yourself?

The images feel like a yearbook of sorts, a rumination on the decade, and on three girls growing up.

In her hands, celluloid comes off as a medium that allows for old-fashioned rumination, with some of the slowness of oil paint.

Published in 2006, the novel is violent and spooky, a rumination on madness and creativity.

Lady Hartledon had dismissed her maid, and stood leaning against the arm of the sofa, indulging in bitter rumination.

At this a light came into his face, and after some seconds of rumination he despatched Nance upon an errand.

He sat looking surly and gloomy, buried in rumination, and by-and-by rose and left the room.

He kept sighing and wrinkling his brows, as though in deep rumination on a matter far removed from the stumpage question.

Then he wrenched off a huge chew of tobacco whose rumination might check his impulse toward tempestuous language.