Sentence examples for on stillness from inspiring English sources

At the same time the artists were evolving performances based on stillness, silence and endurance.

"Requiem" bases most of its sentimental power on stillness or the swish of a skirt.

Focused on stillness, it was magnificently performed by Renee Robinson and Glenn A. Sims.

It's a record that places much emphasis on stillness and restraint, containing some of their most serene music.

Zen practice, she believes, offers the way to peace because of its focus on stillness and introspection.

Alexander Bisley: How does your very popular TED talk Where Is Home? complement this new book and talk you've delivered for TED on Stillness?

As a dancer, his control is invincible, as is his ability to contrast whipping movement with dead-on stillness.

With the derestriction of broadcasting hours, those Zen-like moments of stillness on British TV – filled with Test Card F, the little girl with an Alice band playing noughts and crosses on a blackboard, or IBA engineering announcements "for the radio and television trade" – began to disappear, to be replaced eventually by an endless flow of programmes, stretching from dawn till daybreak.

A sense of music poised on the edge of stillness marks many of Takemitsu's works, including "Far Calls.

Perhaps Stephen Michael Shearer and Ruth Barton were both drawn by the startling contrast between her eerie on-screen stillness and a life full of drama and agitation to the point of incoherence.

Like flash photography I am left with residual pinpricks of stars and am unable to focus on the stillness of the text on the rest of the page.