Before boarding the ship, Tom suffered one of his rare but nevertheless recurring jolts of conscience: "He saw four motionless figures standing on the imaginary pier, the figures of Cretan policemen waiting for him".
That said, the disparity between what was happening on stage – or, rather, what wasn't happening, unless you count watching black-clad, motionless figures wearing expressions that run the emotional gamut from morose to I-was-forced-here-at-gunpoint an unmissable visual feast – and what came out of the speakers held the audience rapt.
He took just a moment to push his hat back on his head, then squatted beside the motionless figure.
Facing into the picture, Friedrich's motionless, reverent figures have long been seen as surrogates for the viewer.
Here it holds its own with Léger's great nudes, motionless, hieratic figures, walled in silence, yet amazingly powerful, much as Laurens' bronzes.
The tendency to depict icon-like, motionless mosaic figures isolated on a gold background has pre-Iconoclastic precedents, but from the 9th century onward it became a leading decorative principle.
But, as with the titanic, motionless deity-figure in "Immortal, Invisible, Wise" who "has held so long this, his repose, /that no one sees him any more", this other reality is mostly lost to plain sight in the fretful human world.
I think Zim is best remembered as the guy right next to manager Joe Torre on the right-hand side of the Yankees dugout in the good years: a motionless thick, short figure, heavily swathed in Yankee formals.
In stark contrast to the rescue behavior elicited by nestmates, C. cursor subjects were highly aggressive toward all other live test stimuli, except the motionless (chilled) nestmate (Figure S2), namely an ant from a different colony (heterocolonial test), an ant belonging to a different species (heterospecific test), or a larval cricket (prey test).
Gore sat in a chair, motionless as a wax figure, while Rubin introduced him, stressing the role Gore had played in a project that his father had not considered very worthy during his officeholding days: eliminating the federal deficit.
When audiences file into Everyman Theatre for performances of George Brant's gripping one-act, one-actor play "Grounded," they are greeted with the sight of a figure sitting motionless onstage, facing a wall covered with large TV monitors.
