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motionlessness





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The experience of Cunningham motionlessness, it should be said, is nothing like that of Cage’s silence.

From New York Times Jan. 23, 2013

John Torres’s lighting makes Mr. Bokaer’s motionlessness memorable.

From New York Times Aug. 2, 2012

The ranking round is only a sifting process, but confidence in this strange world of muscular motionlessness is more important than physical wellbeing, as the blurred-of-vision Im may prove.

From The Guardian Jul. 27, 2012

Office workers groped through dim hallways toward daylit exits, subway trains coasted into motionlessness, and tourists stood around in knots, prevented by guards from entering the darkened Capitol.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lamps were round hazy balls of light frozen into motionlessness, anchored in space and kept from blowing away in the icy wind by black steel posts.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright




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