They were unusually fine and frank; dark and full of an almost gentle meditativeness.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
The sun had set long before; the twilight had deepened and deepened until all at once it seemed to meet, in its meditativeness, a thought, an inspiration, a celestial surprise-and the moon rose, silent and beautiful, like the embodiment of that thought.
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop
But in addition to all the other excellencies of Hamlet's speech concerning the wassel-music-so finely revealing the predominant idealism, the ratiocinative meditativeness, of his character-it has the advantage of giving nature and probability to the impassioned continuity of the speech instantly directed to the Ghost.
"Literary Remains, Vol. 2"
Coleridge