EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS and a pensive chihuahua partly explain the success of two of Japan's consumer-finance firms.

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With his hair hanging low over his forehead, Ashton Kutcher, seen in closeup, looks like a pensive mushroom.

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Wasikowska had a pensive presence in Kids, an understatedness that seemed refreshing but which in retrospect may have been the result of tentative acting skills.

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Remember your face serves as a billboard advertising your emotions, so avoid a pensive scowl or furrowed brow by consciously keeping your facial expressions neutral to positive.

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He cites the five-movement Third Sonata, written when Brahms was only 20, which can be performed with youthful vigor or in a more pensive mode, according to Mr. Bronfman.

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He seemed to walk a sort of pensive route, meandering with his thoughts.

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In fact, the opera is a little too pensive, too oratorio-like.

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