Sentence examples for heavy stillness from inspiring English sources

Also there, though not in Alden's Munch-meets-Mayakovsky staging, is the heavy stillness of high summer and the weightless bliss of a stolen kiss.

After the giggling workers filed out and down the street, we were left alone with the shimmering, wide-angle view and a sudden, heavy stillness.

The stars were coming out, but there was no breeze, just this heavy stillness, and then this tune, with its hip-rolling beat, which was about a suicide, after all.

In an earlier book, Imperium, he plunged into the forlorn, freezing depths of Siberia and at one point quotes unsceptically a young girl on the effects of the cold and heavy stillness.

A profound stillness descends.

In addition, Pufftail's speculations about death ("the Great Stillness"), his remarks about "the whole meaningless pain of existence" and his urgings that cats act out their destiny, even though it "brings sorrow and grief, and though it leads to the Great Stillness itself," can become pretty heavy going, even for jaded grown-ups.

A weighty stillness follows.

At night, the pocket of neighborhoods near Kennedy International Airport are heavy with stillness.

/ While the moon rode over the garden, / High in the arch of night, / And the scent of lilacs was heavy with stillness.

For about 15 minutes I admired Cage's refusal to compromise, but I found the mandated stillness to be heavy-handed.

Occasionally, there is a drowsy sound from some lone weaver's shuttle, or shoemaker's last, but it is stifled by the thick walls and heavy dungeon-door, and only serves to make the general stillness more profound.