illnesses
Example Sentences
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Another feature of Odissi is its sculptural stillnesses, sometimes maintained on one leg.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2017
“Basketball,” at an hour long, was remarkably suspenseful: These women have the rare ability to make you wonder, moment by moment, “What will happen next?” even when they hold long stillnesses.
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2017
The overlapping scenes come thick and fast, the talking and acting sections often very funny while the dance sections – troubled solos, sloth-like crawls, pod-like stillnesses – are more reflective.
From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2012
Probably, for although Monet's fellow impressionists also predicated their images on the moment, none of them was able to go so far in the direction of displaying reality as a collection of tiny, discrete stillnesses.
From Time Magazine Archive
I associate these moods with the golden stillnesses of a prolonged and sultry autumn, and with slowly falling leaves....
From The Passionate Friends by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
