Sentence examples for their immobility from inspiring English sources

The sunbathers, in contrast, seem happy enough in their immobility.

The ringing of a cell phone startles them out of their immobility.

Their immobility and immutability are part of the permanence traditionally associated with the art of sculpture, especially monumental sculpture.

I was struck at once by the poverty of these soaked skeletons, their untold numbers, and, perhaps most of all, their immobility.

Plants, defined by their immobility, had evolved extraordinary life-ways by way of compensation: the power to regenerate after most of their body had been eaten; the ability to have sex by proxy; the possession of more than twenty senses whose delicacy far exceeded any of our own.

Partly it's the geometry: the tip of the vaulted apse meeting the top of the picture, the vault framing a soaring interior anchored (you have to look closely here) by two tiny seated figures on either side, their immobility by contrast subtly stressing the fuzziness of the shifting central figures and locking in the composition at the edges.

Earlier visitors to Tahiti had noticed the grace and stillness of its inhabitants, but while they thought this was just laziness or torpor, Gauguin saw 'something indescribably ancient, august, religious in the rhythm of their gestures, in their extraordinary immobility.

Their blocky immobility is part of their psychological weight.

The interview protocol for Group A included questions on their social network; considerations in choosing their job and housing location; daily mobility experiences, challenges, and the reasons for their mobility or immobility; and their feelings and coping strategies regarding their mobility or immobility.

The elements on the x-axis are chosen on the basis of their general solid/melt bulk distribution coefficients (or 'incompatibility') of elements in magmatic systems (e.g., Sun and McDonough 1989) and their fluid immobility.

In Bucer's time, social unrest was growing as lower-level artisans resented their social immobility and the widening income gap.