stillness
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Shattering the stillness of a winter morning, the car’s cold-start cycling sounds like someone is docking a PT boat at the curb.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Tess moves with a troop of kooky outer-borough women, leaving the musical with precious few intimate moments of thoughtful stillness.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
The experience of doing nothing crept up on me this summer, surrounded by the stillness and quiet of our family cabin in southwestern Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
We just lay there, spooned together, holding on as if stillness could save us.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
There’s a moment of stillness, broken only by the rhythmic clacking of ties passing beneath us.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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