stillness
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Brands never lets his subject tarry long enough to freeze into marmoreal stillness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
But no voice calls, no birds sing; the stillness is untroubled by any living creature save one.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
But even here, the stillness is partial at best.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Here the road becomes a boundary between different ways of moving through — and loving — the same landscape: speed and stillness, noise and silence, crowds and solitude.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and solitude I had passed beneath its roof!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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