stillness
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It also “vibe scented” a horror movie, creating a fragrance, distributed at screenings, that “captures the chilling, damp, metallic stillness of a nightmare that won’t let you escape,” according to the film’s press materials.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
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
We just lay there, spooned together, holding on as if stillness could save us.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
One warm evening came a stillness as if the whole world were holding its breath.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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