All 6 Uses of
pensive
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Or Phoebe's soft small hand suddenly on her knee, at a moment when Caroline was pensive or distracted, absorbed by the world and its concerns.
p. 162.9pensive = appearing deep in thought
- Phoebe, at thirteen, was short for her age, chubby, still impulsive and impassioned, slow to learn but moving from joy to pensiveness to sadness and back to joy with an astonishing speed.
p. 221.8 *pensiveness = deep thought
- Rosemary nodded, pensive.
p. 313.0pensive = appearing deep in thought
- Then she grew pensive.
p. 327.4
- "I almost missed the train," he said, pensive.
p. 330.2
- She had her hand tucked around his elbow and was leaning down to speak to him, and he was nodding, pensive, frowning, looking across the gardens, beyond the gates, at whatever she wanted him to note.
p. 332.3
Definition:
appearing deep in thought -- typically looking sad or serious