It was balance without stillness; or rather it was stillness and motion perfectly mixed.
Yet it is not the present, the music, or even the glass of wine he sips, that makes this moment special, it's the stillness.
In this movie, silence is not only the sound of chilly outer space; it's the stillness of death, whose easeful allure beckons from the opening sequence to the last.
It's a stillness visitors rarely expect to find in the city (and one that New Yorkers with small apartments and roommates otherwise find only by locking themselves in the bathroom).
With the national parks, it's the stillness of nature.
It's enforced stillness, designed to numb, and even though Offred loathes these new-world horrors, she swallows them in order to survive.
It's enforced stillness, designed to numb, and even though Offred loathes these new-world horrors, she swallows them in order to survive.
Later, it would come to me - it's the stillness, the calmness, in the photographs of situations we New Yorkers (part-timers included) know to be anything but calm and still.
For all his moody irritability in normal circumstances, Johnson's reaction to mortal danger was stillness.
TM, as you may know, is completely different -- it's about that stillness and allowing yourself to just be still and be in the stillness.
