stillness
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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
There is a stillness upon entering the pavilion.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
At the second hospital, a surgeon walked in, took one look at me and stopped—with that stillness that comes before hard news.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
The stillness of the street gave him a strange feeling.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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