| 单词 | motionlessness |
| 例句 | The lamps were round hazy balls of light frozen into motionlessness, anchored in space and kept from blowing away in the icy wind by black steel posts. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The experience of Cunningham motionlessness, it should be said, is nothing like that of Cage’s silence. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z Stares, touches, prolonged motionlessness; all the thrilled disbelief of mutual surrender. Romeo and Juliet ? review 2011-01-09T00:05:42Z In one intriguing solo, she juxtaposes motion and motionlessness in a marvelously experimental manner. Review: ‘Twyla Tharp and Three Dances’ Lends a Look of Sensuous Improvisation 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z After a brief period of motionlessness, I detected my heartbeat. Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z 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. Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The ranking round is only a sifting process, but confidence in this strange world of muscular motionlessness is more important than physical wellbeing, as the blurred-of-vision Im may prove. London 2012: South Koreans dominate men's archery as Team GB labour 2012-07-27T16:41:23Z The lemons are yellowish in the moonlight: there is something stage-like about their motionlessness: it is rather as though we were in a velvet box, facing the sea. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Harry saw in her eyes, in her flushed cheeks and quickened breath, in her motionlessness, the permission that he sought. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z She sits with that motionlessness of her type, closed lips, face muted and expressionless. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Here, in a third small bed of the truckle type, lay his defaulting wife, her face to the wall, her body composed into an excess of motionlessness. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z I pray for peace—for motionlessness—for the feeling of myself, as of some plant, absorbing life without seeking it, and existing without individual sensation. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z "Admit, colonel," she said, "that this perfect motionlessness is only an appearance, and that the slightest thing would cause it to disappear." Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 He know that if the cow came within very short range, she might discover him in spite of that absolute motionlessness which often deceives the eyes of the wild creatures. Dusty Star She did not repulse him, and from her silence and motionlessness he gathered courage. Under False Pretences A Novel This motionlessness filled me with sadness on account of my folly of the preceding day, and oppressed me. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Length of Pose.—No sitter can hold a pose in perfect motionlessness. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors This absence of sound and light, this unchanging motionlessness and coolness, this absolute negation—that was the bottom of the sea. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Even then the illusion of motionlessness was preserved. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 This is what is known as matter, which on account of its darkness, i. e., its imperfection and motionlessness, is the cause of all the blemishes and evils in the world. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy He is silent still; the horror of him is increased by his silence and motionlessness and his metal mask. The Wagnerian Romances I watched him till he was out of sight; all the while I was conscious of an utter motionlessness in Elsa's figure beside me. The King's Mirror There was a sudden sharp noise and a cry in the garden behind the hedge; and the Swami leaped into attention with the swift382 motionlessness of a wild animal. Jewel Weed But something about her very motionlessness struck a chill to his heart. The Squirrel-Cage Her spotless pallor, the fine sharpness of her face, the shadows under her eyes, her motionlessness, would have excused the momentary feeling. "Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame" Then there was silence; a feeling of utter quiet and motionlessness. Space Prison Nothing stirred, I say; there was an affrighting solemnity of motionlessness everywhere. The Frozen Pirate And in the same way motionlessness and heaviness are predicated in virtue of the absence of motion and lightness, i.e. the latter are essentially prior. A Short History of Greek Philosophy The figure stretched out upon the bed was deathlike in its rigid motionlessness, and Cynthia's hand lay over the thin, old wrinkled ones for fear in a drowsy moment the woman might elude her. A Son of the Hills Not in cold motionlessness consists eternal life, but in eternal movement, in eternal alteration, in incessant change. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life He made out after a long period of motionlessness another gesture; the man's hands were up to his face; he was shading his eyes or studying the mountainside with field glasses. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Suppose they were in the condition of cataleptics, sensible of what passed around them, but paralyzed to the motionlessness and seeming insensibility of death? The Frozen Pirate A shriek burst from the lips of the poor wretch; and then sudden motionlessness came over him; it was manifest to all that he was dead. The Last Man First, it was the absolute stillness and motionlessness of the room that impressed him, so far as any one element predominated. None Other Gods It was only the eye that was deceived, not the nose—at least, not the polecat's nose—by motionlessness. The Way of the Wild Théo did not move, but his immobility was the motionlessness of extreme tension. The Halo After a long period of absolute silence and motionlessness she rose, took off her hat, gown and shoes and clothed herself in her Indian garments. The Princess Pocahontas They hark back; they expect motionlessness after, say, fifty, to the end of one's days. The Enchanted April Gertie seemed frozen into motionlessness in her corner, almost as if she had had experience of this kind of thing before. None Other Gods Chris was soon ready, and stood there a moment, a pale figure in the gloom, watching the shining dots rock back again in the ripples to motionlessness. The King's Achievement Frozen to the ground, Israel knew not what to do; but next moment it struck him that this very motionlessness was the least hazardous plan in such a strait. Israel Potter It was horrible to see that motionlessness of body. The Necromancers Knowing the value of motionlessness as a concealment the animal never moved; and only an eye trained to the jungle would have detected it. The Elephant God "The man's name, gentlemen, is Franklin—-" Oliver started uncontrollably, but relapsed again to bright-eyed intelligence as for an instant the President glanced up from his motionlessness. Lord of the World It seems to me that when a wheel seems to cease motion, and finally attains a state of motionlessness, it is perhaps merely turning into a terrible speed which we cannot perceive. The Forgotten Threshold Waves of coldness broke on her mind; her whole body would have shuddered had not fear chilled her into motionlessness. The Night Horseman Except for the rapid, heavy voice of the President the hall was very quiet, and from the very silence and motionlessness of those present there exhaled a certain air of tenseness. Dawn of All Now she sat framed in by the yellow-and-white foam, that had settled to motionlessness,—an island in the midst of waves of memory. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 The motionlessness of the train was so absolute as to be disconcerting; also a scandal. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 She moved very gradually and slowly, and had just settled into utter motionlessness when she realised that he was coming back through the garden—the straggling currant and gooseberry bushes were being trampled through. The Shuttle These signs and the contrast of her mute motionlessness with her usual vivacity of speech and expression and gesture made him uneasy. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise He, was strangely like the pictures of peasants in the northern Italian pictures, with the same curious nobility, the same aristocratic, eternal look of motionlessness, something statuesque. Twilight in Italy A far higher development is needful before music can be enjoyed in silence and motionlessness. The Vicar's Daughter He cringed at her feet; he leaped upon her; he saw in her his saviour from the terrible silence and cold and motionlessness. Heather and Snow The others were also standing as if pasted to their posts, and there was something alarming in the motionlessness of their shoulder blades. Men in War They had sunk into a state of motionlessness while K. gave his oration, and it had not been possible to raise them from this passivity even when the judge was being humiliated. The Trial And then, the enormous fortress, within whose walls there was not a single light, passed into darkness and silence, separating itself from the ever living, stirring city by a wall of silence, motionlessness and darkness. The Seven Who Were Hanged But in a moment more the young man, becoming uneasy at the motionlessness of his wife, lifted up her head, and glanced in her face. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood The silence and motionlessness of the whole added to its awfulness. The Paris Sketch Book In other words, he would have won the Brooks Prize for perfect motionlessness in one place. The Silent Bullet They were wild, bold, ravenous; their red eyes glaring upon me as if they waited but for motionlessness on my part to make me their prey. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 She would not owe safety to the mere motionlessness of a seat on the solid earth, but she used gravitation to balance the slight burdens of her wariness and her confidence. The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard There was a strange motionlessness of everything in that pretty little cabin. The Mirror of the Sea |
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