still life

Example Sentences

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Lutnick’s testimony this past week, like Bondi’s, is thus operating as a still life in what happens when the law becomes inert.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

I don’t consider Klee—sui generis—to be a Surrealist, but “Fish Magic,” merging aquarium, children’s art, still life, cosmos and landscape, is the quintessential portrait of a dream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

And it continues to be popular today, with dramas and TV shows like Traitors showing there is still life in the murder-mystery format.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

Meaning ostentatious or sumptuous still life, pronkstilleven art became all the rage in the Dutch Republic, both as a social documentation of wealth and a kind of moralistic satire.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2024

But sometimes, don’t you look at a still-life painting and think, Hey: Is this still life?

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson