Sentence examples for strange stillness from inspiring English sources

There is a strange stillness that this least still of places permits -encourages, even.

And there was a strange stillness.

A strange stillness had settled on their faces.

There was a strange stillness, almost a silence, as they snaked round the block.

There is a strange stillness in that face which stares, rapt, into the middle distance, hoping nothing.

There's a strange stillness around the home as you take down the to-do list.

Throughout the program the violinists emphasized spiky harmonies, dance rhythms and strange stillnesses, an approach that was least effective in a stilted performance of Jean-Marie Leclair's Sonata in D (Op. 3, No. 6), composed in 1730.

There is a strange, unnerving stillness at their centre.

Madrid's fans did not seem to think it was a big deal either; the Bernabéu was full but there was a strange, silent stillness about the place … at least there was until the dying minutes, when it was deafening.

There is a quiet and a stillness strange for such a large crowd of people.

Mr. Segal's tableaus were emotionally confounding, at once deeply familiar in their forms and subjects, yet ghostly and strange in their stillness.