Sentence examples for stillness a from inspiring English sources

(Evans's only comment about the picture, in a Facebook post, was: "I appreciate the well wishes and love, but this is the work of God. I am a vessel!") A moment stilled from days of rage creates a stillness, a silence, into which we pour our belief in the human spirit.

Lowry calls Anderson's expressive stillness a "compression of character".

Stillness — a sudden, seemingly unprepared but sustained balance — is a central ingredient.

In another moment of eye-catching stillness, a woman floats across the pool in an inner tube, fully clothed.

I thought I was alone, but then, in the stillness, a lone voice began to sing, sweetly, a Buddhist prayer.

Perhaps because, in moments of stillness, a shutter seems to close over Mr. Keller's handsome features, and Zack's friendly eyes turn into ice cubes.

It's also about time slowed to the flip side of speed, to an utter, velvet stillness: "an operatic present, a pure present".

Yet Sebald also extracts from this self-conscious antiquarianism something unaccountable: a mysterious contemporary stillness, an otherworldliness of the present.

Suddenly, the girl sat on the ground, her stillness an instinct, looking up through the leaves, waiting for the noise to pass.

There is a composure about her, a stillness, an allure almost catlike," he wrote.

In the stillness, an interesting thing began to happen.