Examples of use of ruminatively
1. So as he sits ruminatively at his console, weighing the pros and cons of an early election, we can be certain that Labour‘s present weakness in Scotland constitutes a good reason for not calling one in the foreseeable future.
2. This impulse might be blamed on the influence of professional sport – scenes of our anti–heroine ruminatively watching news reports of Tour de France and athletics doping scandals – or on a broader culture of success–obsession: reality TV, instant celebrity, attack–dog politics.