Sentence examples for stillness between from inspiring English sources

Like a poem whose meaning lies in the space between the lines, the fault's message lies in the stillness between the earthquakes.

We planned our deployment for the time of slack water — the brief moment of stillness between the flood and ebb currents — so that the mooring (and the boat) would not be carried away from the mark as we struggled to get 3,500 pounds of gear off the deck.

In the stillness between the roaring katabatic winds of modernity we see with greater clarity.

On her wide wooden desk, she had one of those small water garden fountain thingies, and the sound of trickling water rattled the stillness between our sentences.

The dynamic stillness between particle and wave is where we confront the wavicle: an awareness of the imperceptibility of the power of the symbol delivering a new aesthetic to the avant-garde.

One year earlier, Ashton made Symphonic Variations, a setting of César Franck's score that reaches the sublime in its spooling lines of dance and in the space and stillnesses between.

During an awkward conversation between two people "a stillness blundered between them".

Crossing and recrossing the stage on the diagonals, she alternates between stillness and motion, between the "silence" of the abstracted vocal accompaniment and the communicative chatter of her feet.

But the poems are still there, and that extraordinary sober, thrilling music can be described but thankfully not possessed, as at the close of 'Little Gidding'heardard, half-heard, in the stillness / Between two waves of the sea.

The variations of feeling and ambiguities of gesture reach their height in the stops and starts of the solo for Travis Walker at the end of "Oh, Inverted World": a solo full of not just apparent thoughtfulness (now looking at his left arm, now at his right) but also of complete stillness in between moments of action or while others pass.

No other photographer so determinedly reminds our eyes, as it were, of the stillness of still photography; between the stiff-spined archness that threatened the Victorian portrait and the hasty, freeze-dried moments of modern reportage, only Steichen had the skill, and the wit, to redefine the photograph as a kind of miniature monument, a repository of pensive peace.