Sentence examples for of the stillness from inspiring English sources

No other photographer so determinedly reminds our eyes, as it were, of the stillness of still photography; between the stiff-spined archness that threatened the Victorian portrait and the hasty, freeze-dried moments of modern reportage, only Steichen had the skill, and the wit, to redefine the photograph as a kind of miniature monument, a repository of pensive peace.

He had a life that drew him out of the stillness imposed by his disability.

In the shattering of the stillness of the forest clearing, both sensed the import of the moment.

It was freezing out, and it hurt to breathe, but everything stopped spinning, at least, and I had more balance now, and being aware of my balance made me aware of the stillness all around me, and the silence.

A part-time medium arrives at a "becalmed" house, a home full of "the stillness that follows calamity", to search for clues to the girl's disappearance by holding an awkward seance.

A few years ago, while waiting with a friend for a canoe to ferry us across the Upsalquitch River in the Canadian big woods near Campbellton, New Brunswick, I stood stupefied on a primitive landing as a pair of Jet Skis -- loud, sleek and festooned with the obligatory fluorescent graphics -- came blasting out of the stillness.

The haphazard table cloths invoke the chaotic turbulence of ocean water, adding motion to the stillness of the painting.

There was no communication between us, not even in my imagination, and after a couple of minutes the stillness of the room began to oppress me.

After six hours of television gab, the stillness of the courtroom was overwhelming.

"The time of day and the stillness of the environment changes the way we see it," Plumb explains.

"In 'Parts,' the removal of most of the model emphasizes the stillness of the photograph," Stenram continued.