A thought or reflection put into literary form; an aphorism.
思想录，反思录；名言，箴言
an unpretentious collection of comic pensées
Example sentencesExamples
Even so, Godard's barrage of images, sound bites, allusions and pensées remains invigorating rather than numbing, compelling us not only to look but to see and to hear.
In it, he integrates clips from favourite films with pensées on cinema's role in the century.
‘Our nature consists in motion,’ wrote Pascal - a pensée purring beneath the far-flung dispatches of his first book.
Frustratingly, these pensées are almost invariably generalized.
Origin
French.
Definition of pensée in US English:
pensée
nounˌpänˈsā
A thought or reflection put into literary form; an aphorism.
思想录，反思录；名言，箴言
an unpretentious collection of comic pensées
Example sentencesExamples
Frustratingly, these pensées are almost invariably generalized.
‘Our nature consists in motion,’ wrote Pascal - a pensée purring beneath the far-flung dispatches of his first book.
In it, he integrates clips from favourite films with pensées on cinema's role in the century.
Even so, Godard's barrage of images, sound bites, allusions and pensées remains invigorating rather than numbing, compelling us not only to look but to see and to hear.