"Let him go," said Zarathustra, after prolonged meditation, still looking the old man straight in the eye.

Nunn's production underscores the fact the play is a prolonged meditation on death.

"How exciting it was to encounter a writer whose every phrase invited prolonged meditation and exploration", McLuhan added.

This last item, he discovered, came from Rome; in the past, he recalled, it had been used, with limited success, for prolonged spiritual meditation.

Given the frequency with which signs of decay and desuetude appear in the pictures, one could see his work as a prolonged meditation on mortality.

Each session involves set exercises, followed by prolonged meditation.

After prolonged meditation, the meditator continues into the bardo or even towards enlightenment.

But, more than any previous version, Nunn's production underscores the fact the play is a prolonged meditation on death.

There was silence, while Vic's eyes showed prolonged meditation.

Then he did prolonged meditation at Lingkar Drak, a place blessed by Guru Padmasambhava.