Sentences with phrase «philosophical ruminations»

Thus, in reality, all philosophical ruminations aside, the buyer agent is paying the commission up front.

In writing books laced with philosophical ruminations and literary references, he has served as an emissary from the brain sciences to the cultural milieu.

Still, for those who truly relish Eco's mix of philosophical rumination and intellectual intrigue, this wildly imaginative novel about the invention of longitude and its effect on the Renaissance world of international espionage is every bit as deserving of attention as its more famous predecessor.

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The novel's central character, whose name also evokes that of a famous observatory, continuously makes philosophical observations and speculations about the world around him — a wave, the rays of the sun, a pair of turtles, a sand garden — all leading to ruminations on the nature of things and Being towards the universal.