Libraries encourage intimate relationship to a text, private contemplation of a thought.

Our offer is a delicate one, perhaps best reviewed in private contemplation before you seek the agreement of your nobles.

Yes, yes, I'll have the solvers make one for you, while I go into private contemplation.

Ivan asked Cadderly, gruffly slapping the young priest on the shoulder to force him from his private contemplations.

His way requires periods of private contemplation and public revision.

Catti-brie had retreated within herself, for private contemplations that Drizzt wasn't sure he understood.

We spend an enormous amount of time not in private contemplation but getting things off our chests.

Je'howith asked bluntly, drawing him from his private contemplations.

The law allows "private and quiet contemplation and introspection."

The boy from Buckinghamshire was gazing out to sea, unmoving, lost in some fierce private contemplation.