Sentence examples for solemn stillness from inspiring English sources

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds — save where the orange work cart clatters by, laden with Sheetrock and tubs of joint compound.

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,   And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,   And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower   The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,   Molest her ancient solitary reign.

Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign.

The precision of Peake's drawings, which have been commissioned by the likes of Hermès, is what makes them captivating: through a strong awareness of geometry, he conveys a sense of peaceful stillness, spirited yet solemn.

When this confused fantasia is heard from afar through the stillness of an Arctic night the effect is strangely weird and almost solemn, as if it were the distant hum of an active, living world breaking across the boundaries of silence, solitude and death.

For the most part, though, "Pas de Deux" is a solemn work, and, despite the profusion of music in the piece, Hoghe is comfortable with a silent stage, and with stillness.

Solemn, indeed.

The stillness comes and the stillness goes.

Stillness, mainly.

Then – stillness.

Perfect stillness.