stillness
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But he was sympathetic to the crowd’s inertia: “The stillness isn’t apathy,” Skybetter added.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025
Claude, a rare albino alligator whose ghostly white scales and statue-like stillness earned him a cult-like following around the world, died Tuesday, according to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
His descriptions convey with equal force the stillness of the forest, the mute hostility of a marriage, the ardent impulses of youth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
It’s a different kind of shot, even in a film that uses silence and stillness more markedly than the first.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
In the calm stillness I saw him open his eyes, his hand came to my face, tender and searching, wiping away the unruly tears.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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