Sentence examples for stand like a statue from inspiring English sources

On our various jobs together, I've often watched Stephen stand like a statue waiting for the perfect moment to press the button, but the moments he chooses always surprise me.

While a guy is working the registers, the others shout ridiculous directions through an earpiece, such as "Don't engage in eye contact with the customer"; "Turn everything the customer says into a rhyme"; and "Stand like a statue staring at the customer's $20 bill for 45 seconds without moving".

Don't just go there and stand like a statue follow the rhythm, if its a sad song let it reflect on your face.

But the Queen stood like a statue of alabaster.

No, he stands like a statue, bloviating in verse about her suffering, piling up pretty metaphor upon classical allusion for what seems like an eternity.

Pedestrians hurry by while this enigmatic, unprepossessing figure with a long black ponytail stands like a statue, a motionless stone in a river of humanity.

She painted herself white and stood like a statue on a crate in Harvard Square, waiting for people to give her change.

Ms. Brook-Kothlow played an erotically deprived woman in a blue wig who kept yearning for a man who, as she put it, "stands like a statue".

In the dying moments of Richard Eyre's exquisite revival of Ibsen's drama, the rosy hint of dawn creeps across the room where Lesley Manville's Mrs Alving stands like a statue, her face cracked with grief.

Minutes later, after he watched second baseman Mark Lewis's two-out, three-run homer disappear beyond the right-center-field fence for a sudden 7-2 lead in an eventual 7-6 loss, Cone stood like a statue, his back to home plate, his head down, his hands on his hips in disbelief.

I stood like a statue until the whole scene ended.