Sentence examples for intense stillness from inspiring English sources

He surrounds his characters with an intense stillness, and then slowly introduces the ungovernable into their lives.

The intense stillness of that face becomes the film's center of gravity, just as the increasingly animated voice becomes its propulsive force.

There are moments of intense stillness, too – dreamy vistas of a lakeside paradise, eerie visions of love among the ruins – which punctuate the frenzied air of (self- destruction and self- destruction mandrity in the fiftysuggestng film-maker who has previously been accused of terminal adolescence.

Their master is a slight man of sixty-eight, with a noble head, and his intense containment a stillness of eye and body while his deft hands move gives him a sagelike aura.

In a silence made all the more intense by his riveting stillness, Pennington says a single word, "Hurry". At one performance in Santa Barbara, that word was spontaneously echoed by a few audience members -- one of those "golden moments," Pennington says, when you can believe that creating a dance really matters.

I went out into the simple walled garden beyond my desk, overlooking the Pacific 1,200 feet below, and the stillness was so intense, I could register every movement.

Realizing that within the depth of your being, there is that continuous source of intense aliveness and power, which is the stillness out of which everything comes".

Though all four dancers occasionally come together, in stillness or in bursts of motion, the most intense encounters occur in pairs.

She delivers her first number — "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" — very quietly and with an intense longing that digs beneath its surface charm to find its stillness and steel.

"I feel there's an intense, spiritual quality about the pictures because of the long exposures and required stillness.

I certainly haven't experienced one myself - it's given to very few!" Although this book occupies different ground from its predecessor, readers of An Equal Stillness will recognise a novelist who measures the abyss that often separates intense private passion from the demands and doubts of everyday life.