motionlessness

Example Sentences

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After a brief period of motionlessness, I detected my heartbeat.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

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

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2013

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

Their motionlessness is the essence of drama, and though a domestic tragedy has been laid bare, it is stated in such detached and plastic terms that the audience laughs.

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