Positive personality trait
Contemplative
Calmly thoughtful and inclined toward careful reflection.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Spends long stretches in quiet thought, on a walk, by a window or over a single page.
- Gives one thing full attention for a long time, such as a painting, a view or a hard question, without hurrying to a conclusion.
- Seeks out silence and slow activities, and comes back from them calmer.
Fits when someone is naturally drawn to sustained and quiet thought
Not when the person is merely inactive, indecisive, or formally religious
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: it is a literary word for a temperament, and on a resume it can read as slow. It fits a personal essay, a eulogy or a story; at work, describe the careful analysis or deep focus it makes possible.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] has a contemplative mind: they will stay with [a text, a problem or a body of evidence] long after others have moved on, and their [essays or analysis] are deeper for it.
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Report card comment [Name] has a contemplative nature and gives careful, thoughtful answers when given time to think.
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In a story, shown not told Every evening he took his tea to the bench at the end of the garden and sat until the swifts had gone. He never brought a book.
Her contemplative temperament made long museum afternoons feel restorative.
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