repose

To be sure, there are moments of relative repose.

The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual, and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.

Seeing our friends and neighbors stretched out in various states of repose each day or catching sight of them launching their sailboat for a mid-morning outing on the water increases our vulnerability to catching their “virus.”

It was the best Abel had ever done, a perfect representation of stupefied repose.

The space feels somewhere between a crypt and a cathedral, featuring paintings and bronze sculptures of reclining Black bodies, spread out in repose or entombed like corpses, that appear to glow from within.