To explain her own narrow and static life, she proposes, "That's been my problem.
The argument, made with static examples of workplace compensation, fails because no one lives a static life.
Chekhov did an extraordinary thing in making the static life of a writer dramatic, examining loneliness and failure alongside self-aggrandisement and celebrity.
It was all there at Sotheby's last Thursday through Saturday -- the sphinxes, the gorgons, the sibyls, the putti, the lions, the obelisks, the static life studies and the fake Attic urns.
And to believe in them, to keep talking about them and arranging clothes around them as if they were set pieces in a Noel Coward drama, is to aspire not to a real flesh-and-blood life, but to a static life.
The protagonists of "NW," Leah and Keisha, are Willesden childhood friends; Leah, who is white, stays in the neighborhood, leading a comfortable, if static, life, while Keisha, who is black, changes her name to the more bourgeois Natalie, becomes a barrister, marries rich, and feels like a fraud.
Tying down mobile species to particular sea zones is challenging, but where there is a static life-history phase (such as egglaying) it is more feasible.
A comparison between the tribo-dynamic and quasi-static life predictions is performed to demonstrate the important role of the gear tribo-dynamics in the fatigue damage.
Some, like his bowl-and-drapery still life, are static to the point of inertia, until one studies the small variations of light that sensuously articulate the objects in space.
But none of that dooms him to a completely static N.B.A. life, nor does it prevent him from finding that tricky equilibrium of utility and restraint.
The edit remains purposely raw, with breaks, silences, sometimes voices without an image, subtitles without a picture, booming echoes and tailings-off, the sizzling, faltering static of life itself.
