stillness
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Stillness that is not still—think Martha Graham by way of Irving Penn, with a nod to Rei Kawakubo’s mutating forms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
Shape of Stillness went for £47,500 in December.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025
The Library of America has just reissued Bruce Catton’s Army of the Potomac trilogy, a welcome omnibus of “Mr. Lincoln’s Army,” “Glory Road” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Stillness at Appomattox.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022
Stillness comes to our restless protagonist about as easy as it does a rough sea until she comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who affectionately gives her the nickname “Boulder.”
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2022
Stillness: this is what he radiates more than anything else.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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