"Foster's Home" does include zany chases or bursts of slapstick lunacy, but these are interspersed with long calm stretches, meaningful glances, almost oddly meditative moments.

The movie also makes clear that flamenco, for all its formality, is a passionately spontaneous form that allows few meditative moments.

A meditative moment will imbed an image in his head that he will tease for weeks.

But he stressed that, for him, no poem would be possible without that first meditative moment, something that may be entirely absent from modern teenagers' lives.

She continued after a meditative moment, "Don't cross them, though.

L'Archibudelli responds brightly and with seeming spontaneity to each peculiar turn in the scherzos but gives full scope to more meditative or passionate moments.

In search of a more meditative moment?

The other gnawed his knuckle through some meditative moments, with his eye on his inferior.

As road-tested travelers will attest, it's often the downtime that brings the meditative and most welcome moments.

Under the banyan's aerial roots, which fall in lacy tangles from the branches, is a stone bench ideal for meditative moments.