Sentence examples for to stillness from inspiring English sources

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to stillness

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The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

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He may be making a motion picture, but Mr. Aljafari is attracted to stillness.

I awake to stillness and open the window on dense swirls of snow.

The exertion leads to stillness: dancers curl on the floor in fetal positions or pose around a white chair, the only object on the stage.

With straight dark hair and a tendency to stillness, she looks a bit like an Eastern European novelist who is ten years away from receiving a major prize.

The anticipation was heightened by beguiling ads that Adidas, Rose's shoe company, began running that showed a city reduced to stillness by Rose's injury.

They're more likely to dissolve the beat into a waltz or a dreamlike sway, close to stillness but with little hope of repose.

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Learning to arrive at stillness is key to the practice.

He stopped from time to time and listened to the stillness, broken occasionally by the report of cracking ice.

They've turned physics inside out, moving from rapid force to utter stillness, eye-defying speed to glacial slowness.

There's an almost otherworldly aspect to her screen presence, partly due to her stillness and her own translucent eyes, which can suggest grave intensity or utter detachment.

If I succumb to the stillness, I thought… but there is not a soul to talk to in the house except, me.

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