motionlessness

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

I was in grad school, deep in a period of daytime beers and open-ended self-discovery, and I was lying in final resting pose, suddenly wondering why motionlessness was supposed to be relaxing.

I love both sports, but one game is constant motion and the other is constant motionlessness.

Most effective is the quiet motionlessness of the scenes; they have an air of finality that suggests the end of the story, or perhaps the very beginning.

In one intriguing solo, she juxtaposes motion and motionlessness in a marvelously experimental manner.