self-communing

When this pianist slows the music to a halt or barrels headlong into a phrase, one senses a very personal channeling of the composer's own sense of exploration -- a self-communing way of playing that begins to sound like Chopin, himself, improvising his musical arguments.

In performance: Maurizio Pollini 2010

Sociability has been inculcated at the site notionally furthest from its centre, the self-communing individual.

Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

So he removed to another place beseeching his daily bread of Allah Almighty and thus he kept working till the end of the day, but caught not so much as a minnow; 233 whereat he fell a-marvelling in himself and said self-communing, Hath Allah then created this new-born child without lot of provision?

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The parson, in long self-communing during the afternoon, had decided that the

Two on a Tower 2006

In after years she never attempted to excuse her conduct during this week of agitation; but the result of her self-communing was that she decided to join in the scheme of her lover and his friend, and fly to the country which he had coloured with such lovely hues in her imagination.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

Still, the diary is no romantic self-communing, since Orwell did have a vague plan to publish it at some later date, so it does have an embryonic orientation to some British reading public: it is more in the nature of a dramatic aside than a soliloquy.

Orwell’s BBC Broadcasts: Colonial Discourse and the Rhetoric of Propaganda 2002

Bradley gave this answer in a stolid, vacant, and self-communing manner, which Mr Riderhood found very extraordinary.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The first reflection that came up, leading the way in my self-communing, was this:

The Seventh Letter, by Plato Plato 2004

It was not only what had happened, but the way Richard was taking it ... his secrecy ... his morbid self-communing.

Ultima Thule 2003

The animation subsided into a quiet self-communing, and he soon proceeded to relate the history of her whose marble similitude had so excited my wonder and admiration.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various