A moment of solitary contemplation is no substitute for exchanging platitudes with the chap at the next stall but one.

Too many of us, getting and spending, have bought the notion that solitary contemplation is anti-social.

It can be performed alone, to allow the solitary contemplation of nature's handiwork, or as a social outing.

The speaker paradoxically describes solitary contemplation as "sweet," despite his inevitable thought on sad things.

It spoils what for many is the essence of the museum-going experience: the quiet, solitary contemplation of art.

He believed the search would be inward, requiring long periods of solitary contemplation.

He envisioned separating from organized society for a Thoreauvian period of solitary contemplation.

Skye still has the space for solitary contemplation of its history and its myths.

Several austere bedrooms were for solitary contemplation.

The Green, that's the hermit's life and the solitary contemplation of God.