| 单词 | stillness |
| 例句 | A peculiar pocket of stillness in the middle of all that color and bustle. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A stillness settled around her, damp and chill, and Tally imagined again the trainload of dead Rusties buried among the stones. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The stillness of the ground felt wonderful, as if a hand had stopped a metronome. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There were no shadows under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and without definition. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The stillness was broken by Van Helsing’s voice speaking in a low level tone which would not break the current of her thoughts:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Their beings were lit with an inner flame and, at the same time, the cold stillness of ice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Into the stillness come the voices of his masters, echoing from one side of his head while memory speaks from the other. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Kid Sampson, Nately and the others wandered apart in a noiseless eddy of motion and were sucked away into the cloying yellow stillness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Things aren’t so bad, I tell myself, as I settle back into the stillness of my world. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He goes still, a sudden stillness that draws my eyes up and into his. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Moss had always heard a lot about the fight-or-flight instinct, but he had never experienced it; his mind had always channeled fear into stillness. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I am suspicious of the stillness in these woods. A great tension rests upon Fablehaven today.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I detect a rush within me, an ache, and then a stillness, like the words are being whispered right into my ear. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Either way, thoughts of Faith and Fang and Astelle and how I’d just been slain outside by a single note seemed distant, muted by the church’s shadowy stillness and the Pastor’s lingering calm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It was the stillness that had always frightened him before, but this time it was like the moment after Miss Edmunds finished a song, just after the chords hummed down to silence. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z There had been no evil to mar that propitious night, because she had listened; there had been no voice of evil; no screech owl had quaveringly disturbed the stillness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But the stillness was the sleep of swords. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Yakov, in comparison, had been like a mountain lake, its stillness a guise for its cold and vast depth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z No: stillness returned: each murmur and movement ceased gradually, and in about an hour Thornfield Hall was again as hushed as a desert. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z After the fury of the night before, an unnatural stillness lay on the land. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is the only country in the world,” said Wednesday, into the stillness, “that worries about what it is.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The little spell-patched boat pitched again, rocked itself to stillness, drifting on the uneasy waves. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z In the distasteful stillness, while he muttered and insisted that the terms should be observed, reluctant hands disarmed Sir Lancelot and tied him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The doe was silent and her three companions said nothing: but their stillness showed plainly enough that she had spoken for all of them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A strange stillness prevailed over the scene as the stentorian thunder of bombardment yielded to the minuscule cries and commands of distant voices. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Kote stood with his back to the room, a stillness in his body and a terrible silence clenched between his teeth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For an instant there was an ominous stillness, quieter and more silent than ever before, as if even the air was holding its breath. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z On Sunday, July 9, a day of heat and stillness, the Ferris Wheel became one of the most sought-after places to be, as did the basket of the Midway’s captive balloon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was awake, jerked suddenly into consciousness in the black stillness of the house. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z When the last was gone, a sudden stillness settled over the yard, like the hush before a storm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Well, I did wonder . . . about you and me . . . someday . . .” He was instantly serious, I could tell by the sudden stillness of his body. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z One warm evening came a stillness as if the whole world were holding its breath. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay there in the shimmering stillness and let myself be washed in it. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Just because he said you were the best student of the year —” They dropped their voices as they entered the muffled stillness of the library. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He no longer believed in the chupacabras or vampires, but the dark, dead stillness of night brought them back. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He punched and kicked his way to the juggling man, but by the time he got there, the pocket of stillness had been swallowed up by the undulating crowd. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was nearly four in the morning, and the deathly stillness of the grounds felt as though they were holding their breath, waiting to see whether he could do what he must. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Somewhere behind us, I heard one of Betty’s doors slide open, but it didn’t break the stillness of the moment. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Hear her soft breathing in the stillness of that little room. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When he reached the second landing he was breathing so hard that he stopped, closed his eyes and let his chest heave itself to stillness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I shovel a handful of the fresh snow into my mouth, listen to the muffled stillness broken only by the cawing of crows. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A small noise inside so great a stillness, but it was enough. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was full night outside, and there was stillness in the bright pavilion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The abrupt stillness seemed alien and artificial, a little insidious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Alone on the page, and in the sickly stillness of the room, the words appeared to have the stature of an uncontestable, even classic indictment. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The windows are grand and tall and also fitted with bomb-resistant glass, kept shut at all times for security reasons, which further adds to the stillness. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I had never experienced such utter silence before, such stillness. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I look at the sky as the last light leaks from it and the stillness of night settles around. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z In the stillness, for a second, I thought he might be stalking a spirit or an angel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z So much had been lost, but there was a stillness to the city that was almost hypnotic. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It was an exhilarating walk through the crisp, clear air, the leaves thick and soft along the quiet trails, and over everything the indefinable healing peace and stillness of the northland bush. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z You move through everything, and your heartbeat becomes a pulse of all things alive, all at once, and the silence between each beat is the stillness of things that exist, but do not live. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Already sunlight was slanting across the yard, and in the stillness the flies buzzed about a patch of dung a few feet away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly there was a moment of stillness outside our tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Waiting in utter stillness, I tried to feel the potion working. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There was a stillness to this wood like nothing Bran had ever known before. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I can sense the stillness around me, as if a hurricane has come and gone and everyone is assessing the damage. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was nearly dusk and a March stillness had seized everything—the trees, the rotting deadwood, the leafless vine maple, the stones littering the ground. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And for a little while longer he lay quietly with weak breathing, as if perhaps waiting for normal and natural conditions to reemerge out of the complete stillness. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Their eyes were open; some were standing, though most had sat down; and a terrible stillness hung over them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not just that the room is bare— it’s that there’s a strange, dead stillness to the air, as if the room is an empty shell left behind by an animal. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The day would lie before us both, long no doubt and uneventful, but fraught with a certain stillness, a dear tranquility we had not known before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z No more bouncing, just stillness, settling his gut. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She could feel nothing at first but stillness. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “It would be merciful if there were no breath,” he muttered, and then he heard the feeble cry—how feeble a cry!—hang for an instant upon the stillness. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z And a nurse touches my shoulder and tells me it's over even though I can already see it by the peaceful stillness of him. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Eventually he pulled his pillow and blanket to the floor, lying on his stomach and watching the stillness of the late night. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Finally the Berg slowed, and then there was a rough bump that shook the ship, followed by silence and stillness. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A heartbeat of stillness was followed by a scuffle and a flurry of pattering feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Until the next train whistle in the distance pierces the stillness. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She was riding on the sharp point of the arrowhead itself; she was flying through the predawn stillness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She took a slow turn around the pool, no longer searching, but drawn to the glow and glassy stillness of the water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They held the lamps over the carcass and groaned with pleasure at the size, the ferocity, the stillness of it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The dark metal seemed to gaze back at me, threatening even in its stillness. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z They couldn’t bear the stillness, the walls, the boredom of having nothing to do but wait for the day’s excitement of eating and going to the toilet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z McCunn was stalking ducks with what remained of his ammunition when the stillness was rocked by the buzz of an airplane, which soon appeared overhead. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For just then, a scream ripped through the stillness of the abbey. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It was strange, in that dark stillness of the wilds, to hear him mutter words of a language he had learned on another world than this. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was not so much a sound as a stillness so intent that it made her ears ring. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I'm taking in the stillness of that, the sharp truth of it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In the overwhelming stillness, between our echoless footsteps, the pulse sang thin and fast in my ears. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It seemed to emerge out of the stillness of an implacable force brooding on an inscrutable intention. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Kvothe’s voice struck the air like a commandment, and in the stillness that followed, his words were sharp and angry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And Samar, every spring night, reminded me there is beauty in stillness and grace in acceptance. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They, too, like the hillside jungle, were tumultuous with evening, but from the remote height turned to stillness, their fierceness tempered by the air that lay between. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Cole found courage in the Spirit Bear’s stillness. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I liked watching a man finally dumbstruck into stillness and silence before me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Virgil was so overjoyed at the stillness of his usually bustling house that he didn’t even glance at the kitchen table as he opened the refrigerator. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Unlike the happy silence we’d all enjoyed earlier that morning, we suffered instead a black kind of stillness on our route back home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Tourist season was over, and there were no boats on the river, and the wilderness seemed to withdraw into a great permanent stillness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama stood behind him, where she always stood, hands folded, lashes low, her stillness a mirror for his fervor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z When the doors were shut, the coolness of the air-conditioned limo was a relief but the stillness and silence made it possible for me to imagine I could hear Bodega’s heartbeat. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Was the cobra surprised into stillness that a human should dare to touch it? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Its stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But her beauty and stillness broke the balance in me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The bright-colored mural was still streaked in blackened mashed banana, but the painted figures stared at us in reproachful stillness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The contrast between the laughter and the stone stillness within me is jarring. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The hurry-scurry, the angry hum of recent weeks had departed; a quivering stillness now permeated the premises. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Mrs. Jacobs had been shocked into stillness. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z A dot of light pierced the gray-green stillness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In the neighbouring room on the left a painful stillness descended. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a strange sort of stillness from Mamma’s side of the couch, which Dimple tried, and failed, to decipher. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Rosary beads rattled against one of the pews, loud in the stillness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It shrugged and stayed as it was, scary in its stillness. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z There’s an odd stillness, like the house is quieter than it should be. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Pet jerked into stillness, then slowly rotated its head toward her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The clock continues to chime, but she feels the stillness fall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But she stayed put, her heart thudding, and went on gazing out into the night as if the stranger's stillness had infected her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z From stillness came a wind rushing between the smoke spindles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the stillness of the tree, wrapped in the faint smell of rot, Naomi and Wash held each other. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Just as I slipped on my penny loafers, a phone rang and disturbed the quiet stillness of the house. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I do not respond and we three sit in silence, Carmine awed into stillness by the boy’s presence. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Within minutes the forest was settled in a great foggy stillness, chill and damp. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Undoubtedly my stillness led the Lethifold to believe that its potential victim was sleeping. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the stillness you could have heard a pin drop. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z When I drew in a jagged breath, breaking the stillness, he closed his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He remembered two black eyes, a low growl interrupting the stillness of the jungle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Even now, as I think about it, I feel the sharp stillness. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Swimming gave him the chance to move and exercise his body, to uncramp it from the stiffening stillness of sitting with a chessboard or a book. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For some time I stay in bed without moving, in the absolute and holy stillness. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I was thinking, too, that the stillness was affording me a first real opportunity to reflect. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Her father sent news every few weeks, punctuating the warm stillness with reports from the south: There had been a storm on the road, and it had delayed them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “The prayers we are say—” “Deacon Thoroughgood,” a deep voice boom through stillness. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z So I spent the morning the way I’d spent every day for the past few months, lost in a haze of silence and stillness. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Black prow by prow those hulls were made fast in a limpid calm without a ripple, stillness all around them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The mansion was eerily quiet, with only the fizzle of the last few solinium flares to alleviate the stillness. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But now there is stillness and drips of candle wax and quiet. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Instead of an ecstatic frenzy, there was stillness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z ‘Not that way! No, not that way!’ whispered Gollum, but the breath between his teeth seemed to tear the heavy stillness like a whistle, and he cowered to the ground in terror. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was as though she was suddenly impatient to be done with all this and to be left alone in the stillness of the great room with her opium pipe. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z My siblings descend, and the distant stillness around me becomes a warm, chattering flurry. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Dedd remembers a sudden stillness after Minerva left, different from their usual silences. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The noise is so loud in the shady stillness of the plants and gentle huddled form of Mr. Ram that I’m ticked as I pick up. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Nye sits there, reptilian in his stillness and as barren of warmth as the surface of the Moon, staring at me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He paused, and there was now utter stillness in the room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But for many days there had been stillness everywhere, the stillness of inactivity and of people, each in his own house, waiting to die. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In the dangerous stillness of my own room, it took everything I had just to do that. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z So she lay there in the great quiet of the museum next to the warm quiet of her brother and allowed the soft stillness to settle around them: a comforter of quiet. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The hiss of walkie-talkie static punctured the stillness. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There, as she wept and trembled, a soft breath of air came through the stillness to her, the gentle breathing of Zephyr, sweetest and mildest of winds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “They know when the crowds are with them, literally in synchrony with them, in movements and nods and stillness in moments of attention.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I can still feel the stillness of the night. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But Pantalaimon was trembling and shivering, and nothing Lyra could do could soothe him into stillness, or quiet the soft little moan he couldn’t help uttering. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A solid stillness covered him, and Pinmei saw his legs meld into the stone platform. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She walked along the floor of the grove feeling much as if she were in a cathedral: there was the same stillness, the same sense of upwardness in the structures, the same awe within herself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z That stillness at the back of his neck. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Looking at Buddy and thinking of Jan and Mr. Dalton, he saw in Buddy a certain stillness, an isolation, meaninglessness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z At the center of it all, in a pocket of stillness within the roiling nest of screams, was the girl. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When the state finally concluded its case, there was a stillness in the courtroom in anticipation of the beginning of my defense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The eerie stillness was broken by muffled coughing as Zafoona covered her mouth with a handkerchief. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The silence and stillness between us became unbearable. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z When the stillness shattered and his fury rushed at me, I would know that something I had done was the catalyst, the cause. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It takes a few moments for my classmates to quiet down, for the restlessness to turn to stillness. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There’s a stillness, a calm, that he emanates. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z After a last, long-sustained stillness which allowed the great dog to close in on his quarry, the voice would burst forth so fast it overflowed itself and became a melody. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She sensed it, a preternatural stillness, and held hers, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The stillness in the air, the glory of the light, the feeling of comparative safety—all had made me think so. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Watching for any sign of change, anything but this stillness. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Yet there had been nothing, only the long, slow fall, and then the absolute stillness, the heavy, crumpled limbs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Ogion's windows were shuttered fast, but they could hear the wet snow as it fell soft on the roof, and the deep stillness of snow all about the house. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The stillness of the street gave him a strange feeling. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In the stillness after battle I looked up at the mountain- tops; perhaps the old man and woman were watching me and would enjoy my knowing it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The interminable pages about light and stone and water, a narrative split between three different points of view, the hovering stillness of nothing much seeming to happen—none of this could conceal her cowardice. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Con,” Taisin said, her voice a whip crack in the stillness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Her heart, as on that bright summer day when he had first spoken to her, gave a terrible bound and then was still, with an awful, wounded stillness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Everyone has a different way of escaping the dark stillness of their mind. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The snow whispered down in the stillness and the sparks rose and dimmed and died in the eternal blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Perhaps Dumbledore had noticed their sudden stillness, for he smiled as he said, “The casket, then, if you please, Mr. Filch.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But what I am thinking about is the stillness I felt when I hit that boy. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And the vast house too, the silence of that echoing hall, the uneasy stillness of the west wing, wrapped in dust-sheets. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Then comes a brief silence—the familiar stillness after a strike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Somehow there was a little patch of stillness around her, where the particles were resisting the flow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He seemed placid to me on the platform, but something about that stillness makes me wary now. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He was the one person who could comfort me and bring stillness to my spirit. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She saw the grown folks freeze into stillness, not moving, scarcely breathing, while they listened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His snarls and the wounded screams of the bird filled the stillness over the cay. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the stillness of the room, I listen. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z When I awoke, all was stillness—the sort of stillness that makes you sit up and take your bearings. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But he became aware of the stillness when he glanced up to see Brother Leon’s face, paler now than ever, and the eyes glistening like sun-splashed pools. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dede next notices, the garden’s stillness is deepening, blooming dark flowers, their scent stronger for the lack of color and light. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a moment in which everything stood stilL Guenever stood, hurt in her heart Lancelot, sensing her stillness, stood also. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never beheld such a great, appalling stillness before. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Walking among the giant trees with their snakelike lianas, or vines, hanging down, Roosevelt noted the stillness and silence in the forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The profound stillness that embraced all was its own sad and lonely sermon. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z His breath went away, like the ball—a terrible stillness pervaded him—and then, at the onset of panic, his breath came back again. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The room sat in perfect stillness, not one bee anywhere. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Where he was a man of stillness, she was outspoken and a whirl of motion. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They walked through a long stretch of narrow tunnel; the sound of their feet echoed loudly in the stillness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There he struck his lyre, and at the sound all that vast multitude were charmed to stillness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a stillness in the air—a kind of shadow swooping in on us in this little house of ours, leaking out from the walls. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Once in a while, she'd stir, get up as if moved by some urgent purpose, only to then collapse back into stillness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The ringing persisted, ridiculously loud in the stillness of night. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Finn turned back, searched for that pocket of stillness, but it was gone. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A pensive stillness passed while they listened to the hushed chirr of insects in the trees that surrounded the cemetery like an embrace. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The soft glow of the lampposts in the park, the white snow clinging to the branches of the trees, the quiet stillness of it all. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z His freakish stillness has a kind of mesmerizing quality to it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z There was a single breath of stillness before a soldier in a black rain poncho rapped on the bus door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z On other nights it was still, with such a stillness as one imagines as existing before the stars began to form, or after everything has perished. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The very air seemed brown, and all things about were black and grey and shadowless; there was a great stillness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But when he drove in his golden car over the waters, the thunder of the waves sank into stillness, and tranquil peace followed his smooth-rolling wheels. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He hated to break the lovely stillness of dawn by using his voice, but he couldn’t think of any other way to locate the mysterious new friend who was nowhere to be seen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z But watching Mercy’s stillness she found a new patience to resist her own impulse. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Carmine is howling, his cries puncturing the stillness, and every time Dutchy moves, he gets jammed in the side. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Their voices, low and sorrowful, lifted the words of the lament into the heavy stillness of dusk in the Great Wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When she tried to speak, her voice was drowned in the dim stillness, and she had to try again to make a sound. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He looked around constantly: Every movement in the grass was a lion stalking, every stillness a lion waiting to spring. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She made it to almost five months before she woke at two a.m. with a terrible stillness in her belly, like the silence after a bell has stopped ringing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Baz was more normal than any of the ones she had at home, but he had something of that watchful stillness I associated with her gang. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She took note of his unnatural stillness, recognizing it as restrained restlessness, and waited impatiently for it to soften into sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z No hurry now, a stillness everywhere, that same dusty, sleepy pause, the men not talking, no guns firing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind and the sky had finally quieted, and it was not the tense, anticipating stillness of winter, the pause of the tortoise taking a breath before a thunderous howl. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He was handsome even now, but his stillness was terrible, the gulf between sleep and death immense. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was no second cry, and over the house the stillness became impenetrable. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z But surrounding it was the stillness of nearmidnight in a country town, so that the hurrying feet and the repressed voices had a hollow reverberance. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I pushed through the stillness, like a blur in a slow-motion picture. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Later, when he gave her more pills and some water, she took them dutifully and then lay back and waited for the strange stillness they brought. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Jay,” I called again, my voice ringing out over the stillness. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In the strange stillness, I can feel the breath of Papa’s shame. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Some in the gallery would later say that his stillness suggested a disdain for the proceedings; others felt certain it veiled a fear of the verdict that was to come. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It cast a stillness within her like the hush of new snow. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z When I turned back to my work, with trembling, ink-stained hands, the scratch of my pen on the paper rasped loud in the stillness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “To resist enchantment,” I say, trying to will myself to stillness. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And she likes having the space to herself, the stillness and the calm sweetened with the subdued scent of frozen flowers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Her hands lay on top of the armrests as if they needed a place to sit after a lifetime of clenching, and in fact, she seemed to be settling into stillness, quietly and crankily. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z From somewhere up ahead the young mouse could hear the sound of dripping water; the musical echoing plops made an eerie noise in the sinister stillness of the passage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The stillness of the tent becomes a quiet melancholy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then, unprompted, Henry says into the stretching stillness, “Return of the Jedi.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He paused again and once more there was utter stillness. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z As I pedaled my bike down El Indio Highway in the stillness of the dark summer night, I could feel the magical power of the roses propelling me toward the Rio Grande. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z They would sit on the ground among the old headstones and wait until the sage had burned away, and Ash still remembered the way she would fidget after only a few moments of stillness. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and solitude I had passed beneath its roof! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A November stillness was settling like a deadly oxymoron on the April landscape. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The next time he awoke, he opened his eyes to an eerie stillness. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I felt strangely safe, isolated, alone in the stillness of dusk turning to night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was something unnatural about Ohio’s stillness. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It frightened him that he slept well at nights, that he was still calmed by the scent of orange leaves and the turquoise stillness of the sea, that he was sentient. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He could feel it in the air around him...in the sudden stillness that had fallen upon the garden.... James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z He felt it in the stillness of the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The walls of the hallway pulse with the stillness. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z "Social . . ." "What?" they yelled. ". . . equality —" The laughter hung smokelike in the sudden stillness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon climbed higher and the air returned to stillness and waiting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer wiped his face frantically, clearing his vision, blinking in the sudden stillness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I hold onto the stillness of this moment, waiting for what he will say next. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z But there was so much more stillness in the air than usual. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The swamp’s stillness was disturbed only by the croaking of a frog and the splash as it leaped into a puddle nearby. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When she settled into a stillness of deep concentration, he let himself hope what he had so far only wondered: that it might be possible Sarai was not lost to him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Horns cracked out in the darkening stillness; grindstones screeched. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It was quite a distance ahead of them, but they were still able to see it in the vast expanse of stillness and ice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z After the evening meal the father fell asleep quickly in his arm chair; the mother and sister talked guardedly to each other in the stillness. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z He entered a bright green coach, one of George Pullman’s Palace cars, where the air hung with the stillness of a heavy tapestry. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was the stillness of the black water, and the unknown things that lay beneath. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The absence of other people added a strange sense of stillness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Nancy took a breath and gathered her thoughts into stillness, using her martial-arts training to get her breathing under control. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her large shapely body seemed to relapse naturally into stillness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The dogs came running to greet her, barking loudly in the early morning stillness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Then with the dying hum of the furiously whirling drums, I heard the grains sifting lazily in the sudden stillness, sliding sand-like down the chute into the pot underneath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She sighed, and they fell back into a stillness. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The old-man sat on when the last plate was emptied, lost in his own world, his peaceful stillness diffusing through the little cabin so that the watchers sat graven in their places. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A wave of tension swept over the stillness. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z My voice cracks open the stillness of the morning like a broken egg. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The sky was utterly dark, and the stillness of the heavy air foreboded storm. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Arthur used to walk round it Guenever was singing and brushing, her low voice fitting the stillness of the candles, when the door opened softly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The growth is so thick and matted that even the wind does not move it, but it is the moonlight that seems to confer stillness upon it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you ask her a question, there ensues, on her part, a moment of stillness so profound you can almost hear it,” another suffragist said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z There was a watchful stillness to the photograph that lent an underlying chill to the warm room in which it hung. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined a whirlwind, dark and swift, and in the middle of it a gentle oval-shaped stillness, shaped like a bicycle wheel seen from an angle: the London Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt I could reach out and touch it; it was so unlike home, where the high ceilings gave our rooms an airy stillness. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z So, with the sun riding high now in the sky, they started off again, noisy in the August stillness, eating bread and cheese. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z His fingers tapped at the uneven edge of his scar, and she held her breath, afraid to disturb the stillness that had settled between them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was past eight when I got home, and immediately, I felt the stillness. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And a stillness fell on the Hamilton place. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The sound carried forever in the morning stillness. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Even in its stillness, a roll heaves beneath its vast surface like a giant turning over in his sleep. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z By early afternoon there was a stillness of heat, and a herd of cows from the higher fields slowly grazed their way down into the shade. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently the leopard dæmon’s statuelike stillness melted, and she moved away once more, lithe and silent. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When they finally relaxed their muscles, they found themselves gasping, more exhausted by stillness than running a hundred-yard dash. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Uncle Turu stands in front of the popping flames, waiting in stillness for the tension to build, and I hover on the edge of the crowd, as I used to do. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A stillness came over her, a surrender, like she was falling from a great height but would never hit the ground. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z "I do not think Bran fell from that tower," she said into the stillness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I float in the delicious stillness of the world around me, briefly forgetting every moment that brought me to this one. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In the sudden stillness, Aly climbed down from the foremast, her rifle swinging at her back. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In the stillness of this unfamiliar living room, another memory surfaces. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The joyous celebration lasted long into the night, and the stillness was fractured often by wild, exultant shouts and by the cries of people who were merry or sick. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I want darkness, stillness, but light cuts in. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The stillness and isolation both calmed and energized her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was present in her strong jaw, in the slope of her eyebrows, in the perfect stillness of her form. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He put his back to all of Phippsburg—Lord, to the entire continent—till with a shrug he sloughed off its heavy stillness and looked for a way to climb down to the water. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I step forward, my clumsy feet scuffing the floor, echoing across the stillness. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The wolf blinked, and in all the stillness it was as if he had leapt toward her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Her slight frame was willowy, graceful even in absolute stillness. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She knows by the stillness of the house that Javier is already gone. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In the calm stillness I saw him open his eyes, his hand came to my face, tender and searching, wiping away the unruly tears. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In the days that follow, it’s movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay, so I walk the compound halls instead of sleeping. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He could tell that it was almost dawn by the stillness and the quality of the cold, flat light beyond the canvas ceiling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the silence and the stillness, horror rose inside him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But the unnerving stillness in her eyes abated, at least. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His finger went out to the bell, but he paused as in the stillness he heard a ting. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The ebony hounds’ ears were erect, though they didn’t seem to be bothered by the stillness. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Finn whipped around, scanning the endless waving, twisting bodies, a vast sea of faces, searching for the pocket of stillness. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Children slide down the hills on shaped boards, sending their happy cries through drifted stillness. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In the strange stillness he looked to the night sky, then turned back into his shelter and was leaning over to go through the door opening when it hit. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon this clear stillness, like feathers on the surface of a pool, fell the calling of a cuckoo. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He could sit in perfect stillness while he observed an animal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The intent look had gone from her eyes and the stillness from her body. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The noise of the water was loud in the stillness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When he lay down again the cat was gone from his side—another small night hunter slipping through the unquiet shadows that froze to stillness at his passing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A light shone through the keyhole and from under the door; a profound stillness pervaded the vicinity. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He had always had a happy disposition, and most of the time looked perfectly content, trotting along through the vast stillness of the bush with stolid, unalterable good humor. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a moment of stillness, broken only by the rhythmic clacking of ties passing beneath us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She is one of those actresses who, within her stillness, there is everything. ‘Game of Thrones’ Director on Jon Snow’s Past and Tyrion’s Reaction 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z And as meticulous as Brown is about choreography and connection — replaced by stillness and isolation in the play’s poems of anguish, to devastating effect — she is just as precise about textual lucidity and depth. Review: ‘For Colored Girls’ Returns, Leading With Joy 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z This offbeat jam session is also peculiarly funny; the deadpan absurdism of the writing is accentuated by Iwaisawa’s bold direction, which uses long periods of stillness and silence and odd shifts in action. ‘On-Gaku: Our Sound’ Review: They Will Rock You 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z But his many TV roles are marked by a sense of implacable stillness that bespeaks the maturity that comes from a long career. Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Even as these moments of stillness formed, they were already dissolving and shifting, like out-of-context memories: utterly specific, but how to place them? Dance Review: New Ideas Between Twists and Turns 2011-03-18T22:04:29Z This wine’s stillness suggests power waiting to be unleashed. This exceptional, vibrant Spanish white wine will set you back only $17 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But momentum builds once the lights turn dusky and Ms. Lafferty rolls feverishly on the floor or settles into positions that reveal the physical duress of stillness. Review: Beth Gill’s ‘Catacomb,’ Dreamlike and Site-Specific 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Mist curled along the tree line, and in the eerie stillness I felt the presence of something ancient. Rich in Surprises and Secrets, There’s a State Park Waiting for You 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Her question lingered in the stillness, sharp like a shard of broken glass on the floor. Perspective | When it came to breast cancer, my daughter taught me to be direct with her 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z There, amid the chirpy stillness of the woods, is the rocky cliff where Washington’s men halted, and below it the defile where their French adversaries had hidden themselves. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “The world is so loud,” Bush sings, so she sets about creating a place of stillness for us to travel to and be transported. Kate Bush's Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow 2011-11-22T16:55:18Z Their grounded unison phrases offset the stillness of her authoritative posture: arms raised at right angles, framing her face, a recurring gesture that at times shudders into frantic motion, echoed by the group. Review: The Balletic Rise and Fall of Eva Perón 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Or, seen objectively, it abounds in characterized stillness and adagio, punctuated but never disturbed by patches of speed. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z Frustratingly, there is a stillness to his stage presence, not born of confidence but rather innocent unease. Sam Smith Performs at the Apollo, With an Appearance by Mary J. Blige 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Amid "the stillness of the mountains" and "the depth of the silence", a story slowly unfolds. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - review 2012-08-24T21:55:01Z As the announcer speaks, the scene encompasses both overall stillness and bits of fidgety movement, testifying to the way individual experience courses raggedly on through unifying collective moments. ‘Seven Guitars’ by the No Rules Theatre Co. hits all the right notes Most captivating, though, is the stillness and quiet — lines that end abruptly and the images that conjure a deafening silence — representations of the graveyards that no longer exist, but whose absence is haunting. When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Breathing is also rhythmic, with inhaling and exhaling as drivers of motion, as well as a way to find stillness. Confused by yoga class names such as hatha, hot, vinyasa or yin? Here’s how to find your flow. 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z As a dancer, his control is invincible, as is his ability to contrast whipping movement with dead-on stillness. Dance Review: Akram Khan Company?s ?Vertical Road? at Montclair State 2012-02-09T22:46:38Z “What We Leave Behind” insists upon power in stillness, and the poignancy in staying — and leaving. ‘What We Leave Behind’ Review: A Father’s Final Project 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z There’s a touch of danger to some of this stillness, as when other passengers in Gareth’s train car watch him eat with great intensity. ‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Two hours of stillness and silence with our own set of squirmy wild animals? Cobblestones? Check. Castles? Check. Budget? Check. Why Romania Is Worth the Trip. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z 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. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-10T14:12:45Z Where others might choose more physically expressive performances, these actors find power in stillness. Actress Ann Dowd is a revelation away from the ensemble pack 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z I kept longing for some stillness, moments of quiet clarity. Oedipus ? review 2011-03-03T21:30:00Z These musicians and one more, the violinist Erik Carlson, established the series to present music that promotes stillness and permits rumination — most of it contemporary and avant-garde in character. Music Review: ‘Peckinpah Trios’ Continues Music for Contemplation Series 2014-04-08T20:04:25Z The work here emerges from stillness and quiet deliberation — no matter how dynamic the image. Beauty and Blight, Sharing Common Ground 2013-05-23T21:36:14Z What constantly impressed was her fastidious intelligence and capacity for stillness: always the mark of a first-rate actor. Anna Massey 2011-07-04T18:30:00Z Physically, what was most useful to me was just observing him in press conferences — I got this enormous sense of inner turmoil, covered by an incredible physical stillness. What It’s Like to Play Putin in ‘Patriots’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “The Dividing Line,” a premiere by Mr. Royal set to Gershwin, wavered between sensations — abutting stillness and alienation were glimpses of hope. What Is It Like to Watch Live Dance Again? Amazing 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z She was also a master in the perfect pause, the moment of stillness allowing the audience and the narrative to keep pace with the choreography. The Silent Song of Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina (1925-2013) 2013-04-12T21:50:43Z There are daring torpedo leaps, as when one flies into the arms of the others, but they also linger in stillness. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Troupe Links Stories and Dance 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The tastelessness of his jumbled thrill ride lacks precisely the purity, the simplicity, the stillness in motion and the infinitesimal perfection of Petit’s walk. “The Walk” Falls Short of Artistry 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Instead, they suggest an ominous stasis, an unstable stillness. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z “Instead,” he writes, “a memory”: gearing up for Falluja, the stillness inside the armored vehicle, and then, “the back ramp drops.” A Reckoning With the Wars He Has Known 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z “Mondnacht,” Schumann’s famous song about a moonlit kiss between earth and sky, also lacked the requisite stillness and sense of wonder. Review: Dorothea Röschmann and Mitsuko Uchida in Recital 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z There’s a ladybug infestation in the house; our stillness is made more noticeable by their motion and endless proliferation, by the constant fluttering of wings. In This Moment of Solitude, Books Can Be Our Passports 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z And without veering into explicit narrative he aims to create a multilayered expressive texture that sets optimism against anguish, light against dark and high energy choreography against contemplative stillness. This week's new dance 2011-03-19T00:06:51Z “It’s just an illusion of control, really, but that illusion is everything. It makes me feel safe. It gives me stillness in my mind. All I’ve ever wanted is peace.” The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Andsnes' tone and touch — so fine throughout — transmitted its stillness and gradations of quiet to perfection. Andsnes adds a bit of emotion to his repertoire 2011-04-04T17:07:00Z In the final, haunting “Organ Grinder,” Mr. Drake produced a mystical sound underneath Mr. Finley’s preternaturally quiet lines, which he sang with a physical stillness so complete that his breathing became all but undetectable. Music Review: Gerald Finley and Julius Drake in the ‘Winterreise’ Cycle 2014-02-14T23:02:37Z It’s a raucous counterpoint to the stillness that made “Host” so effectively disturbing. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But before I could enter the phase that Jacobs refers to as “the great stillness,” the lights went on and the spell was broken. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z She radiated a rich inner concentration, so that her moments of stillness seemed just another form of coiled, ready movement. Dance Review | Juilliard Dance: Juilliard Dances Repertory: Robbins, Cunningham, Taylor 2010-03-29T05:02:00Z The occasional runner passed by, but otherwise a cold stillness prevailed. Boston bombing: We would have been standing right there 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z Gladstone’s quality in the role is stillness – most striking when she sits opposite Beth in the local diner and listens. Lily Gladstone: ‘I lived in the reservations until I was 11’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z As both a performer and a maker of dances, Mr. Louis was notable for his quick directional shifts, tiny darting gestures and unexpected contrasts between rigidity and stillness. Murray Louis, Choreographer With a Comic Flair, Dies at 89 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Other moments of stillness occur as Radha looks toward Krishna — always on the same stage diagonal, to show he is approaching her threshold by way of a known path. Review: The Profound Eloquence of Odissi Dance 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Among the nine dancers, Richardson, with her clear and calm authority, and Amar Smalls, who switched with breathtaking ease between speed and stillness, were standouts both alone and as equally intense partners. Ailey II Review: A Light in the Darkness 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Concerts inside the Moab Music Festival’s red rock grotto in Utah begin with an invitation to take in the stillness of the natural setting. Out of Silence, the Music of Meditation 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z They are my attempts to immerse myself in the stillness and silence of sculpture in the belief that we need these qualities in a time in which everything is erasable and instantly replaceable. The iron men 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z But I was interested in what happens if she is required to do something that she’s never done, which is absolute feral stillness and lethalness.” ‘Ratched’ is Sarah Paulson’s most terrifying role yet — and not for the reason you might think 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z And what shades Ms. Mulligan, who at 29 bids fair to become the great British stage actress of her generation, finds in stillness. David Hare’s ‘Skylight’ Stars Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z While stillness and silent transmission of thought are the most important parts of small-screen acting, a performer also needs to be able to shatter the mask for startling contrast. David Tennant and Olivia Colman: the best actors on TV? 2013-04-25T11:07:42Z The choreography, stuttering and sensual, disrupts full-bodied runs and spins with stillness where we wait for Ms. Hamilton’s blood and breath to settle back into her body. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Seven miles long and five miles wide, it is bikeable, and this is the best way to appreciate the stillness here, the weight of time and history. The Pastoral Isles of Lake Champlain 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z He revealed we need sound and we need silence; we need movement and we need stillness; we need order and we need chaos. San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Hynes’s “Morning Piece” enters such a space of stillness that I could barely move while listening to his demo on my headphones, riding the B46 bus home. My Father’s Death, an Envelope of Cash, a Legacy in Music 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z He had a stillness, a shyness, a slightly melancholy reserve that anchored the trust of his young viewers. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z But it is also artificial; stillness is rarely discerned in daily life. Exhibition Review: When Pictures Leap to Other Screens 2011-01-13T21:55:50Z Slowly, they settle into stillness, creating a collective awakening. Review: Who Will Save the World? This Dance Leaves It to the Kids 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But it’s in stillness that Ms. Boitel finds the power to break our hearts. Suspended in Air, Searching for Connection in Two High-Flying Shows 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Mulligan's diminutive Kyra, he added, was played with "both stillness and an almost feline sense of self possession". Skylight illuminates West End 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z He’s learned to “slow down and let stillness reveal what is most important,” he said. They Live Alone in Ghost Towns 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z In these a sense of suspension and momentary stillness prevails. Art in Review: DANIEL HESIDENCE: ?Autumn Buffalo? 2010-12-16T23:42:41Z “His heartbeat stung in the stillness,” he says. Review | ‘Bridge of Clay,’ by ‘Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak, was 20 years in the making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Let your stillness be as the wooded glen. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z In a bush of hundreds of species of plants, in stillness, my husband points out a sole leaf swinging to and fro like the pendulum of a clock. Sex in trees 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z We hear a new urban soundtrack where traffic is muted and sirens scream through the stillness. ‘I would pay $50 for a 2-minute hug’: True stories of sex starvation during self-quarantine 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The dance’s structure — a mix of circles and lines — recalls the sweep and stillness of “Pierrot.” Review: Adam H. Weinert’s ‘Monument’ at the 92nd Street Y 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Krog, a Norwegian jazz singer with more than 50 years of experience as a solo artist, knows how to inhabit an aura of enigmatic stillness. Review: Karin Krog, a Norwegian Star, Plays at Joe’s Pub 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In this lively, jazzy composition, a repetitive and dreamy concoction featuring a persistent back-and-forth between piano and horns, the dancers were continually propelled through space and then pulled back into stillness. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But its nine dancers feast on its every opportunity: They show the beauty of both balance and falling, jumps and floorwork, turns and stillness. In Philadelphia, Ballet Neighbors Divided by Style 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Instead, the dance continues until the cast is exhausted, collapsed into stillness. Review: A Dance That’s Just Not Weird Enough 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Adjusting to the space and stillness, perception changed slowly but markedly. Music Review: ‘Peckinpah Trios’ Continues Music for Contemplation Series 2014-04-08T20:04:25Z Certified instructors select music that corresponds to five body rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. Where Dancing, Not Drinking, Is the Point 2010-08-04T16:26:00Z Here the irrationality was subdued as the piece obsessed over a contrast between very high and very low notes, its early stillness unsettled by threatening brays from a solo trombone and snaps from an accordion. Review: Two BBC Proms More Modern than Pastoral 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z “Above Graciosa and the ocean, this walk has a stillness and beauty, a sense of relaxation just interrupted by the songs of the birds,” Lizete gushed. The Azores: An untamed island paradise only a few hours by air from North America 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Crucial to the effectiveness of this sequence, and the production as a whole, is Fletcher’s portrait of the conflicted Austrian mother, Hani Mueller, whose terseness and physical stillness testify to her near despair. Review | The drama of saving refugee children in 1939, and a journey that’s just as moving and meaningful today 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z “We try to cram everything with movement,” says the choreographer, “but sometimes stillness and silence is where the emotions come and express themselves.” ‘Streetcar’ duo had mutual desire 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The soundless stillness that spills from Yaegashi’s intimate abstractions has nothing to do with the silent authority of solemn situations or sacred spaces. What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty, photographs of the super-smart 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The stillness was ineffably beautiful and infinitely sad. In Morocco, Exploring Remnants of Jewish History 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z With his long legs and fiercely carved profile he's a master of traditional flamenco; but his mercurial body also flickers through skidding cartoon comedy, ballerina delicacy and exotic stillness. Israel Galván – review 2013-03-26T18:11:27Z Braided in another moment of enlightened stillness, they became one. Dance Review: Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2014-05-04T19:26:22Z His photographs, like “Portrait #5,” of a young woman in a yellow dress, can be seen as modern takes on Vermeer’s minimalist stillness. The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z "It is a search for stillness and almost sculptural monumentality," said Wright. C?zanne's Card Players go on show 2010-10-19T19:24:00Z The actors deliver their lines with stark and declamatory fervor, and their gestures have a sharp, sculptural stillness that’s reminiscent of the grand artifices of classic-Hollywood productions. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Beautiful in stillness, Ms. Lieber and Ms. Smith are equally beautiful in motion, each exhibiting an internal coordination, shoulders rolling as feet trace arcs on the floor. Dance Review: Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith at the Chocolate Factory 2012-03-01T23:07:27Z Aside from those swaying dancers, Platt’s seekers seem to be in a place of stillness and contemplation. Review | In the galleries: Finding the unknown within what is known 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Skeins of dancers advance across the stage in surging processionals, separating into changeable groups and pockets of stillness. Dance Review: Garth Fagan Dance at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-10-05T21:24:43Z The woman coins hokey terms like “lonefulness” and “alonement,” and soon her followers start disappearing: They give up their lives and take to the woods to seek quiet and stillness. These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Tales 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z By turns sweet and steely, humane and meta-human, her Nessa burns with a cold self-imposed stillness born of anguish and fury, and is like no modern woman we have ever seen before on any screen. Sundance's 'The Honorable Woman' a brave foray into conflict 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Just ask Joshua Ferris, the National Book Award finalist whose last novel, “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” portrays a character disconnected, adrift in the isolating stillness of modernity. Author Joshua Ferris learns to fly 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z As far as movement is concerned, the only compelling performer onstage is the actor André De Shields, who can simply stand and make stillness gorgeous. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The following week, on the third night of the Republican convention, country star Trace Adkins delivered an austere and sensitive a cappella reading with a stillness that was surprisingly moving. Perspective | A song doesn’t have to scream U!S!A! to be patriotic. Just ask the NFL. 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z As for Williams, his favorite duty time is at night, when the tourists are gone and stillness hovers over the cemetery. Soldier joins elite group guarding Tomb of the Unknowns around-the-clock 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z “Even when he was ill, he had that great stillness and great dignity,” said Wilson, who credited Rickman’s professional success to his ability to be “very metamorphic, he could take on anything”. 'We are all so devastated': tributes pour in to Alan Rickman from acting world 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z This is rare to find in any performance, because it requires such trust in the performer, to hold the stage in stillness, and in the audience, to find a reason to pay attention. Dance review: ‘Glory of Numbers’ is about the beauty The book’s surface holds stillness and movement in tension, reflecting its young protagonists’ lives. The Best Comics of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z That is one reason that the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day here is observed by a moment of nationwide stillness: a siren sounds, commerce halts, and cars pull over to the side of the highway. Critic’s Notebook: Israel’s Holocaust Museums Evolve in Message and Methods 2012-09-04T22:03:21Z I arrived at Carter’s childhood farm in the evening hours after the close of business and before dusk, when a rural stillness permeated every aspect of the place. In Plains, Ga., President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school program still draws crowds 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Loulaki continues her penchant for mixing aggressive movement with stillness, and the work dwells within a fatalistic frame. Dance Review: Lost in Their Own Worlds, Yet Performing Together 2010-10-15T22:54:00Z “There was a stillness,” Mr. Rothstein said, “which is funny for me because I talk a lot.” A Song in His Heart. It Was for Her. 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z While the moon rode over the garden, High in the arch of night, And the scent of the lilacs was heavy with stillness. Poem of the week: In a Garden by Amy Lowell 2013-07-29T10:12:18Z But it was lovely to be part of a large group sitting together in stillness, to have our minds uncluttered, to come to the piece emotionally but also with a sharpness of thought. Starring Me! A Surreal Dive Into Immersive Theater 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Marling possesses a pointed stillness on stage; both her presence and her questions were composed. Naomi Klein and Brit Marling talk Trump, branding, protest and activism 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s rare you would find so much stillness in an artist's mind or studio. Rome's Depart Foundation opens L.A.-area space with Gabriele De Santis 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Tanowitz, who smartly and thoughtfully distills ballet technique into fresh, inventive forms, is well poised to illustrate Eliot’s ideas on space, movement and stillness with elegance and clarity. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Six characters in search of stillness arrive at a wellness center hoping to quiet the inner cacophony that has led them to sign up for a five-day break from their smartphones and small talk. 'Small Mouth Sounds': Playwright Bess Wohl's off-Broadway sleeper arrives at the Broad Stage 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z From the start, above, the contrast between stillness and movement is powerfully expressive. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z My pulse quickened as I listened to a music box wind down, the approaching stillness almost too much to bear. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z The Vespers — also known as the “All-Night Vigil” — draw their hypnotic power from the way the music appears to reconcile stillness with constant motion. The Berlin Radio Choir Sings Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z The strange quality of the light upon this habitat, the stillness of it all, the sense of waiting, brought me halfway to a kind of ecstasy. The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The results are both illuminating and mystifying, a window into profound stillness and irrepressible motion—the latter captured in the blurred flow of waterways and curved trails of stars. Moonlit landscapes shine in a new book of photographs by Darren Almond 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z In “Witness,” Ms. Kendzior contrasts stillness with spastic eruptions: kicks, stomps, falls to the floor. Dance Review: Megan Kendzior’s ‘Witness,’ a Dance Invoking the Holocaust 2013-12-20T21:26:26Z Whatever your beliefs, it is worth taking a moment to enjoy the stillness and grace of some great Nativity scenes in London's National Gallery. Baby, it's cold outside: art's best nativity scenes 2012-12-24T08:00:04Z Quick shifts of direction and geometric patterning dominate this first section; Ms. Childs’s characteristic use of stillness and rapid movement for alternating groups keeps the visual field utterly clear and spatially surprising. Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Showcases Beethoven and Female Choreographers 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z There was a stillness in the air behind her that was easy to slide into, comfortable. Hidden from the newscycle and healed 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Light, often opaque and glowing, and movement are two constants, but so too is a quiet stillness that, in Kawauchi's best photographs, you can almost hear. Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – review 2012-07-14T23:06:08Z There is a lot of me in there, of course there is, but Lucy has a stillness that is to do with what she has seen, what she has experienced. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z “It’s the way he carries himself, his stillness — you just have that feeling that you’re around a strong person,” Helgeland said. How Chadwick Boseman Embodies Black Male Dignity 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z And when I can find stillness and clarity of mind, it is like sitting on a mountaintop. Marlen Esparza is my idol 2012-08-06T01:00:00Z There is a stronger sense of direction: moments of stillness repeatedly disrupted by violent outbursts, as if the piece were evoking the weather system on some alien planet. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z "As an actor it's great because it brings you into that moment of stillness and presence. You've got a lot of people demanding your attention in film making." 'Dr Strange' cast inspired by teaching from Buddhist monk on set 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Byrd answered with contrasts of male and female, vertical and horizontal, contemporary and historical, movement and stillness. Dance Review: Take Unusual Music, Mix Contrasting Movements, Stir Well 2011-03-01T22:40:58Z No special ballerina fingers and no flutterings of grief or protest: just a boy swan on the floor, head down, arms over his extended leg, finding a final stillness. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z The parenthetical phrase translates as “before paralysis” or “before stillness.” Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:26:00Z What began as a diversion has become a self-preserving summer thing: not just Butler, but the Butler stacks, the stillness capital of my imagination. Still Life: Butler Library at Columbia Is a Haven for Body and Mind 2012-06-26T16:03:23Z Further aspects of “Ashphodel Meadows” are characterized by contrasts between stillness and movement. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘A Program of Firsts,’ a Tricky Triple Bill 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z And I felt in this speech, there should be a stillness to him. David Oyelowo on How to Play a Real King 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z A lively interplay of limbs, sturdy or limp, in the sculpture's lower half contrasts with the focused stillness above. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Her stillness and composure are a gift to the franchise. Rebecca Ferguson on Mission: Impossible – ‘Tom says he makes the films for the audience. I don’t’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z To my surprise, her pheromones in the dark and the stillness of the moment excited me. My sex supplement problem 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z What struck me about Condola’s audition was her economy of choices and her stillness.” Condola Rashad Shows Star Qualities in ?Stick Fly? 2012-01-04T22:54:01Z It is full of wonderfully teasing sounds, strangely tuned harmonies and moments of magical stillness, as though Abrahmsen was conjuring music of almost Wagnerian breadth and richness from the slenderest instrumental resources. Proms 27 & 28: Hall?/Elder; BCMG/Volkov 2010-08-07T12:03:00Z How would his precision find more intensity in moments of stillness? What Set tWitch Apart as a Dancer? His Generous Spirit. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Some of the program’s older music seemed to encourage stillness and meditation or trace a circumscribed space of movement. Review: Gamelan Ensemble Hammers Out Ritual Rhythms of Bali 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z There was just like a stillness on our farm, a void of hopelessness. At Home With Donnie and Joe Emerson: Touring the Farm Where the Emerson Brothers Recorded Their 1979 Album 2012-09-12T22:45:21Z And while there’s plenty of humor, one moment stands out for its starkness: The dancers, on their hands and knees, find stillness, and the room falls silent. Review: ‘This Bridge’ Is an Audacious New Dance Work 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Finding stillness for children or any of us can be quite a challenging thing because we live in a frenetic world. BBC's Ten Pieces for schools: The verdict 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Periodically, a dancer lands his hop in a one-legged crouch, and this sudden, silent stillness is like a musical rest. Lou Harrison and Mark Morris: a grand partnership of music and movement 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z It's the quieter, fragile moments that work best: a slow rendition of Mary, from their first album, that is soft as down, or Our Window, whose slanted guitar notes are suspended in stillness and hush. Noah and the Whale 2010-07-14T09:16:00Z My favorite horror movies this year laid off the flashy effects and instead gave me the unshakable willies the unshowy way: with creeping dread and uncertain stillness. The Best Genre Movies of 2022 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z I will miss Paul's camaraderie, his eloquent stillness, his zeal. Jatinder Verma on Paul Bhattacharjee: 'He was passionately idealistic, both artistically and politically' 2013-07-18T16:51:58Z Each new sound seems to breathe — emerging from and receding back into the stillness — and the glint of bells, like desert plants, here and there. What It’s Like to Hear the Desert in Music 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z But his excitability contrasts nicely with Ms. Stiles’s stillness. ‘Phoenix,’ Starring Julia Stiles, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The result is a floating tapestry of fascinating textures made up of tiny musical motifs, and a music that throbs with tension between stillness and agitation, density and light. Classical Playlist: Gluck, Jonathan Biss, Morton Feldman and More 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z They exude a powerful stillness that used to be common in photographic portraiture but is rare in the digital age. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review 2012-07-07T23:06:03Z Yet the work continually draws attention to particular individuals, particular faces, either with a literal spotlight or through stillness amid motion. Dance Review: Pavel Zustiak’s ‘Painted Bird’ Blurs Insiders and Outsiders 2013-07-02T21:27:31Z That passage advances neither story nor choreography, but that’s its point: Its sustained stillness allows us to hear the ripening of the kernel and to sense the beauty beneath the cobwebs. Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ Reawakened by American Ballet Theater 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Although Mr. Catazaro’s role in “Dances at a Gathering” is the smallest, there are moments in some ensembles — the opening of an arm, the turn of a head, a sudden stillness — when he calmly dominates. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z Their new work, “Borders,” is billed as a sequel and continues their interest in juxtaposing wild movement with stillness and artificial sonic landscapes against the human voice. Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Notable for its stillness, it presents his signature bank of dark clouds, blocking most of a crescent moon and, far below, a narrow curl of river. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z That extended staring in stillness, with baleful or at least somber faces, is something they’ve done many times before in this 80-minute work, usually in silence. Two Ways of Looking at Cuba’s Modern Dance Problem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Through all of the chaos, Melania’s impassive stillness has led folks on both sides of the aisle to see her as a beacon of hope. Perspective | Is Melania Trump sending coded messages, or are we just talking to ourselves? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z But in moments of comparable stillness in the first movement, where other instruments were playing around the strings, those instruments stole attention. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z Quiet stillness can be more powerful than action on the stage. A ‘Streetcar’ that will move you 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z “He’s a poet who mesmerizes not by stillness but by zigs and zags, and he very much wants to take the reader with him as he island hops from idea to idea.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “There’s a wonderful stillness and simplicity in these reflections, such as a speech that Sean has at the end about the play — it’s classic, beautifully executed Shepard.” 2010-02-12T23:14:00Z It’s no spoiler to say the film ends in shocking stillness. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z If during the pandemic, many people were forced to stay inside and embrace stillness, the lucky ones were those who could find solace in exploring the interior, seemingly invisible parts of themselves. A Dancer and Chaplain Illuminates the Invisible With Patience 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z But it’s not right to make it seem like an outlier in this respect; Mr. Sorey’s music has never been solely Feldmanian stillness. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z The work is a meditation on stillness, that challenges city-dwelling audiences to abandon their schedules and immerse themselves in a different, more peaceful world. Brian Eno On Art, Music And Inspiration 2013-05-09T16:26:57Z Written in 2011 in memory of a friend and hiking companion, it evokes the glassy stillness of the Alaskan wilderness that for decades was Mr. Adams’s home and inspiration. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z They shatter the realistic, dramatic image with operatic fury, implode it with frozen stillness, accelerate it with hallucinatory frenzy, overwhelm it with obsessional multiplicity, submerge it with mythological anguish. The Best Movies of 2014 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z But can you honor someone through suffering and sweat, as we do through stillness and silence? CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z The resulting hybrid splits the difference between painting and animation, and between stillness and motion, in a way that ends up feeling whole and new. Art in Review: TOM THAYER: ?Scenographic Play? 2011-01-27T22:52:23Z That stillness and focus feel like correlatives of the stillness, the “standing sentry,” that marks mourning all over the world. Review | ‘The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z While its stillness powerfully suggests stasis, its fragmentary approach doesn’t achieve a cumulative power. | 'Port of Memory': Stillness Amid A Shifting World 2011-02-13T22:59:50Z The frozen dramatic stillness suggests the virtual violent vectors shooting between them in a tangle of warped allegiances. The Stifling Decency of “Captain America: Civil War” 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z “Tango in the open air is health. What is dangerous is stillness,” read a sign posted on the sidewalk by dance teacher Luciana Fuentes. In Argentina, pandemic exacts a heavy toll on tango culture 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z “He’s very powerful in his stillness. You have the sense that he’s combustible.” Ray Liotta, of ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Field of Dreams,’ Dies at 67 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z What is intriguing, too, about Gordon's photographs is the sense of stillness they often exude. Behind the masque: Kanaval captures the hidden Haiti 2010-07-06T06:01:00Z “We live in a culture that tells us we can’t live in stillness.” Doyle keeps ‘Untamed’ conversation going in journal, podcast 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z I believed that stillness might give me the best chance of giving birth to a healthy infant. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The painting was initially inspired by documentary footage showing the assassination of a family during the civil war; the ghost of Goya's Disasters of War hovers in its mangled stillness. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z Like the symphony, however, it ended in sustained stillness. Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Those inner movements had taken on menacing bite, whipping between contrasting sections; the Adagio was a deeper evocation of stillness and fragility. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z There’s a startling stillness about the film, especially the opening scenes, that becomes a character in itself and helps to avoid softness. ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’: Boys confront a mysterious death 2014-04-03T20:49:10Z Informed by rhythmic footwork, stylized yet fluid arm and hand gestures, and rapid spins punctuated by sudden stillness, kathak is a dance form of extreme complexity and subtlety. Akram Khan Troupe in Montclair While Khan Recovers From Injury 2012-02-02T22:51:29Z It’s a discovery — along with the importance of stillness in dance, like negative space in painting or silence in music — that would run through the rest of his work, even “Aureole.” Review: Watching Paul Taylor’s Road Not Taken (and Lessons Learned) 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z “He has a stillness about him that was vital to the show actually working,” Somerville said in a video interview from outside the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, as Lake Michigan waves lapped in the background. Himesh Patel on the Pandemic, Fatherhood and ‘Station Eleven’ 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Weerasethakul, 49, is filled with the same soft stillness that pervades his films. The man with the exploding head: the director inspired by his medical condition 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Throughout the disc, you can hear his big questions hanging in the stillness of the old church’s once-sacred air. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Vaze, however, dancing to her own recordings, made marvelously fast effects using synchronicity, arriving with the beat, finding tiny moments of stillness within spinning sequences, punctuating turns with gestures. Dance Review: Indian Dance at Downtown Dance Festival 2012-08-19T21:57:53Z Once in a very long while there’s a subtle zoom or an almost imperceptible tracking shot, but in general this is a film very much about stillness, one firmly rooted in place. 'Meth and modernism': The understated 'Columbus' offers a complex portrait of small-town America 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z While her dancers are technically proficient, her choreography, which contrasts quickness and stillness to pallid effect, is like watching dance on a loop. Dance Review: Helen Simoneau Danse at Joyce SoHo 2012-05-22T22:08:36Z Many of these musical koans are held together by the contradiction of stillness and movement with hyperkinetic streams of tiny notes forming sound sculptures that appear to hover in space. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z His background in performance art gives him total control: his sculpted, swept-up 50s psycho hustler face keeps firmly within the camera position, lapsing from anger into stillness in the space of seconds. Jon Savage on song: The Screamers ? 122 Hours of Fear 2010-07-27T14:54:00Z The artist’s attempt to burrow into the essence of things yields action as well as stillness, life as well as death. In the galleries: Finding new ways to take in the natural world 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “The mirror where the stars and mountains view / the stillness of their aspect in each trace,” Lord Byron wrote. A Grand Tour of Switzerland, Reluctant Son in Tow 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z It is the rarest thing in Tintoretto — in this torrent of movement, an absolute stillness. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Dance fans liken these to the notorious 32 fouetté turns of ballet; I prefer them because of their more percussive nature and especially the exciting stillness with which they end. Erasing Borders Festival Focuses on Indian Dance 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z There are many famous paintings here: Renoir's Mount Etna, Millet's shepherdess in her monumental stillness, Degas's fantastically nervy Before the Race, showing the riders and horses arriving in good time for the start. From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Paintings from the Clark – review 2012-07-07T23:05:18Z Director Fisher Stevens said he and Timberlake talked a lot about “stillness and trusting” while shooting the film. In ‘Palmer,’ Timberlake embraces stillness of a broken man 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z “The stillness of the subarctic winter has permeated my musical imagination,” he says. Seattle Symphony premieres John Luther Adams work 2013-06-12T23:10:49Z A restless spiritual hunger prompted a stint in a Benedictine monastery and landed him in India, where he fell in love with “the thick velvet stillness of the land.” Revisiting a Utopian City With Fondness and Fury 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Cherry was standing in front of me, taking in the view of the springs, legs together, just staring. There was a stillness in the air around her that was easy to get lost in. Under the big night sky: why we all feel so alone in the age of Trump 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z I miss the stillness of Sweden, the forests, the architecture. When in Rome: Swedish graphics meet Italian tiling in a joyful flat 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z But the forced time out proved fertile ground for her message of stillness, of tuning out the noise and listening to yourself, “your knowing,” she calls it. Doyle keeps ‘Untamed’ conversation going in journal, podcast 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Movement and stillness both alternate and combine in the dancing itself, as do communicative expression and formally academic classicism. Review: The Profound Eloquence of Odissi Dance 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The stillness is apt to be short lived. A Light Safari in Wine Country 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z These poses are sculptural — they derive from sculpture — and the Nrityagram dancers can present them with absolute precision and stillness, but even more seductive is how they can strike a pose and then deepen it. Nrityagram Dancers at the Temple of Dendur at the Met 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “What Wayne does is give you the range of meaning to find for yourself, through gesture, stillness, fluidity, even a spirituality in the third act,” he said. An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Shown midstep, perhaps on the hunt for dinner, it still summons some of the streamlined stillness that permeates the later dynastic figures, which are so often also stepping forward, but completely motionless, going nowhere. Art Review: ?The Dawn of Egyptian Art? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-12T22:17:19Z Her narrations of her encounters with people are tender, and her prose becomes marked by rare stillness. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z In Auroville, Walker would meditate with such stillness that dogs would urinate on him, leaving him, by all accounts, damp and serenely untroubled. Revisiting a Utopian City With Fondness and Fury 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Even if the dynamic was not that straightforward, the juxtaposition of motion and stillness was elegant. Dance performance as a high-tech journey into the esoteric 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z After the presentation he finally interrupted the tense stillness and revealed his hand — well, in part. Defiant Showman Demands His ?Wow? 2011-06-03T15:21:47Z At the centre of this study of stillness is Ryan Gosling’s methodical blade runner K, often glimpsed in a cramped retro kitchenette shot in the gorgeously heightened chiaroscuro of a Renaissance canvas. Sedate expectations: will Blade Runner 2049 give birth to the slow-burn blockbuster? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The production misses some beats of slowness, stillness and silence, the steady escalation of tension and humor from one line to the next. Review: In Eulalie Spence’s Harlem, the 1920s Come to Life 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z A lot of people have noticed that stillness, especially of the right hand not moving in his walk. What It’s Like to Play Putin in ‘Patriots’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Let’s face it: As a cultural ethos we’re suspicious, at best, of stillness and silence. To get students to focus, some professors are asking them to close their eyes 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But, as the title suggests, there are some open sections as well, where stillness and spaciousness — like that found at the bottom of a canyon — take over. John Jasperse Prepares His New Work, ?Canyon? 2011-11-13T05:00:10Z At times, the music evokes a church service or the eerie stillness of a funeral parlor, as if the semi-autobiographical character at the center of the story, Redford Stephens, were already dead. Album review: The Roots, 'Undun' 2011-12-02T16:25:00Z Lynskey was moved by Nélisse’s ability to lean into confrontation and create tension with the viewer — a stillness juxtaposed with simmering rage that imbues the role with great power. ‘Yellowjackets’: How Sophie Nélisse Managed That Harrowing Birth Scene 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z That multiracial uprising against myriad injustices churns through the center of a film in which violence and stillness alternate with queasy regularity. ‘Small Axe’ Review: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Black British Lives 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Now there was a trapped stillness in the house while we waited for the funeral. 'I didn't realise he was dying' - losing my fiancé, and then his family 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Moments of stillness are followed by thunderclaps of noise. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z The image beautifully fuses stillness and motion, the actual and the aspirational. Andrew Frieder's blunt poetry born of the urgent and intimate 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z This picture is full of stillnesses in which the main character hides her thoughts and feelings. ‘Barbara’: a doctor’s quiet, fascinating battle of wills in Germany 2012-12-20T21:54:47Z Even away from the push and pull of Sasamoto's body, they refuse any sort of stillness. T Magazine: Aki Sasamoto's Lines of Reasoning 2013-01-03T21:00:07Z And really, all Mr. Arsham’s statuary and other visual images, despite the ideas that may arise from them and their connection to Mr. Bokaer’s stillness, feel most of the time like mere gimmickry. Dance Review: Jonah Bokaer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2012-08-02T21:53:05Z There is a stillness, precision and conservative restraint to Jhabvala’s narratives that runs counter to the explosive, expressive and liquid energy of later Indian Booker Prize winners, including Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy. Review | Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s stories capture an India that no longer exists 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z You need to be very quiet; there should be some kind stillness when spirit are talking to you. Psychic on what "Ghost Whisperer" gets wrong 2010-05-24T19:25:00Z Bodies shake and rattle uncontrollably with arms that often stretch out, as if seeking balance or giving the torso space to shake out its organs; they also float in seeming stillness. The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Some dancers lose control of their senses in the mad scene; Brandt, using her wide, doll-like eyes and the stillness of her face, was more eerie. Emerging Through the Fog of a Pandemic With ‘Giselle’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z “Second Hand” is characterized by stillness, restraint, finality and leave-taking. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z Or is it that the top players in those days did indeed have a natural predator’s discreet, unhurried stealth and stillness? The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 2 – The Irishman 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z But little about it felt persuasive until the final solo when Dunia Acosta was left alone to inch her way across the stage with swiveling steps and measured moments of stillness. Review: A Cuban Troupe’s Strong Dancers, Less Strong Premieres 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Eventually, they each lean against the back wall of the stage revealing how movement is still perceptible in stillness. Dance Review: ‘35 ½,’ Choreographed by Aynsley Vandenbroucke 2013-05-19T21:58:03Z You find tools, meditation, practicing stillness, different things—because I’m very sensitive to energy, within myself and others. Juliette Lewis on 'Secrets and Lies' and Scientology: 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The movement of bodies and the stillness of faces carry currents of uncanny feeling. ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ Review: It’s a Stressful Afterlife 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Sean McElwee’s cinematography taps into an edge-of-the-desert stillness, but, at another point, a scan of Martin’s apartment is so evenly executed as to attract attention to itself instead of underlining the ordinary bachelor digs. Movie Review: ‘This Is Martin Bonner,’ Directed by Chad Hartigan 2013-08-13T20:52:20Z Both then and now, the scripts allow for stillness, letting the audience marinate in a character’s sensitive insights and confessions between the zingers. "Frasier" ended perfectly. Why go back? 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z And these conflicting senses — of sameness and difference, wandering and searching, stillness and motion — are at the heart of its power. Perspective | As time loses its meaning, the music of Morton Feldman gains new resonance 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z For me the bridge is silence and stillness. Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z In that stillness, her full mezzo-soprano entirely suffused the atmosphere. Gustavo Dudamel's Hollywood Bowl 'West Side Story' is a story for right now 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z But getting to exercise the muscles of calm and stillness is exciting for me right now. From "The Good Place" to "Nine Perfect Strangers," Manny Jacinto breaks from "driving the chaos" 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The movie’s unnerving stillness is nowhere near as disturbing as the unremorseful confessions from the former death squad leaders. What You Should Watch This Week if You’re Missing a Favorite Show 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z She delivers her first number — “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” — very quietly and with an intense longing that digs beneath its surface charm to find its stillness and steel. Review: Whose ‘Fair Lady’? This Time, Eliza’s in Charge 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Start to recognize that even in stillness, there is movement. How We Use Our Bodies to Navigate a Pandemic 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Certainly it exists at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the early dawn stillness when a member of the same Muslim family that has held the keys for centuries swings open the church doors. In Israel, a search for tranquility amid the Holy Land’s most popular tourist attractions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z And in the all-encompassing stillness, well, I swear I can feel the man’s psychic energy still flowing. In Warrenton, Va., the Mosby Museum illuminates the Gray Ghost The period of enforced stillness ushered in by the early pandemic found Thubron at home with his wife, glad for a stretch of peace and isolation as he finished writing “The Amur River.” At 82, legendary travel writer Colin Thubron shows no signs of slowing down 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The stillness of the island setting breathes with an unforced spirituality. ‘I Was a Simple Man’ Review: Letting Go 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Daylight muted the opulent reds and golds of the abandoned Grand Foyer, its monumental stillness fraught with grief. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra reunite, and it’s a joyful noise 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z “That sparkle in my eye, you are a jewel, baby,” she purrs on the verse, as if an entire glittering, sweaty congregation of partygoers is orbiting around her confident stillness. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Tiffany and Goldberg orchestrate his performance with a fabulous sense of space and pace, breaking up the potential relentlessness of a one-man show with a dynamic use of movement and stillness. Macbeth 2012-06-17T14:53:14Z “In stillness, the dancers are beautiful, vulnerable,” Ms. Latsky said in a phone interview. To See and Be Seen: These Dancers Make Disability Visible 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z He was his contradictions: the person in motion who seeks stillness; the monk who wants to belong to the world; the famous person who wants to be unknown. The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Each singer then adds and then removes, then adds again his own, changing harmony and the piece grows, with glacial stillness, into utterly entrancing fullness. The 101 strangest records on Spotify: David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir – Hearing Solar Winds 2012-11-13T12:55:03Z Beneath us was the hotel’s well-maintained garden of agave and stout cactuses, and absolute stillness. Personal Journeys: Two Tales of Recovery in the Canary Islands 2013-07-19T16:38:43Z Winter temperatures became dramatically milder, and our sub-Arctic winters lost the pristine cold and deep stillness they once had. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z When the storm finally breaks, an enervated calm falls over the stage, slowing down the dance to a bleak stillness. Clod Ensemble: Zero – review 2013-06-05T17:40:43Z Sign me, Blah blah blah Dear Blah Blah Blah, There will always be pockets of luxury and stillness in the midst of frantic capitalism. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z But here, by presenting a whole roster of spectral-looking, mostly silent actors, who stand in physically awkward positions with uncanny stillness, the production reclaims that old image of the singing statue. Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z Yet this glowing powerhouse can be rivetingly muted, subtly eloquent, possessed of marvelous stillness. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He was known for both technical perfectionism and emotional rawness, and acclaimed for the eye-of-the-hurricane stillness he brought to photos that he made amid mayhem. David Armstrong, Photographer of Subcultures, Dies at 60 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z A stillness prevails, even when Ms. McEneaney and her partner are on a bullet train speeding across China. 11 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side and in Harlem 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The stillness is eerie, the empty spaces luxuriant and seemingly all yours. MASS MoCA: It’s a Site for All Eyes 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z I moved around for a few hours in the stillness, looking things up, standing up or crouching the whole time, purely and almost dopily happy. Still Life: Butler Library at Columbia Is a Haven for Body and Mind 2012-06-26T16:03:23Z “The desert is lovely in its restfulness — the great brooding stillness over and through everything is so full of God,” she wrote in 1895. A Renewed Spotlight on Two Women Artists 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z His ability to convey complex emotions with absolute stillness lends his DeLorean an aura of tragedy that deepens and darkens the movie’s confectionary colors. ‘Driven’ Review: California Scheming 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Ten or 15 minutes later, stepping back in through the white curtain, I instantly sensed a vacuumed-out stillness around Aura's bed, a nuclear-blast brightness, and the assistant surgeon told me Aura had died minutes before. Beach holiday tragedy 2011-08-05T22:01:58Z The orchestra follows his lead, whether going in for glitz or glassy stillness. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z There’s a rare stillness in Ms. Shelley’s tunes. Review: Joan Shelley Offers Celtic-Tinged Melodies 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z “There is something to be said about getting away from the creature comforts and being surrounded by stillness and stars,” said the hotel’s owner, Hugo Pizzinini. Hotels Go Beyond the Suite — to Cabins, Villas and Treehouses 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z They are far smaller than the Great Pyramids of Egypt, but the setting, the stillness and the scope of the Meroe site are what make it impressive. Explorer: Pyramids by the Nile. Egypt? No, Sudan. 2012-10-05T15:50:42Z By the time he records his debut album, due later this year or early next, he will, he expects, have achieved the perfect union of stillness and noise. New band of the day - Joe Banfi (No 1,426) 2013-01-08T16:10:44Z With all the stillness, many of us yearned for distraction. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z They are, but I’d argue there’s a kind of stillness to “Morning Phase” that feels almost confrontational in a way. Grammys 2015: Beck discusses his album of the year nod 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z But every so often, out of amorphousness, something like unison emerges: a repeating phrase of lifted knees and plopped-down feet, or two people finding stillness at the same time. Review: A Choreographer Who Excavates Misalignment 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Her battle to hang onto her humanity by using stillness as a weapon fascinates. ‘Barbara’: a doctor’s quiet, fascinating battle of wills in Germany 2012-12-20T21:54:47Z What’s hard, Ms. Rivera said, is the stillness that the role demands elsewhere. The Indomitable Chita Rivera, Back on Broadway in ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The artist known for capturing so many subjects in lively motion — dancers, horses, nudes — froze what is arguably his most famous work in upright stillness. National Gallery show spotlights Degas’ plucky, mysterious ‘Little Dancer’ The work’s premiere took place in California in March 2020, just before the pandemic shutdown, when much of the world was forced into a stillness that felt, in some ways, like a deep, lingering sleep. Review: How Deep Is Your Love? A Ratmansky Ballet Dives In 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z I came to appreciate the stillness, broken up by the trill of birds and soft lapping of water against the wooden oars. Among the Majestic Trees in Congaree, Slipping Into Silence 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z It's really about labor and space and stillness. 'Meek's Cutoff' shows women's view of West 2010-09-05T15:46:00Z At the same time, there is difficulty in achieving the stillness that Schrader asks. Living With the Men of Paul Schrader’s ‘Man in a Room’ Trilogy 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z His images are generally poised, polished and perfected; he works best with absolute stillness. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – review 2013-04-13T23:06:24Z As if propelled by an uncontrollably restless spirit, Catherine Ellis Kirk swirled into passages of liquid energy, then subsided into moments of rapt stillness before sudden torso accents drove her back into the surge. 'Watershed' misses its moment to commemorate civil rights 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Minimal gesture, maximum effect: nearly seven minutes of lyrical serenity and hushed, harmonic stillness. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The characters know full well that in the post-apocalyptic world they inhabit, nothing they do will have any effect, but stillness and silence aren’t an option while they still draw breath. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z His Act I is too busy to be idyllic, and sadly short of stillness. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z The families in the row of houses opposite didn't appear to be up: the windows were dark and each building gave the impression of great stillness. Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z But mainly, she says, Woolson taught her the value of stillness. Young actress comes clean about "True Grit" 2010-12-09T23:04:00Z He sometimes offers stillness, and sometimes strange incongruities. Dance Review: Douglas Dunn’s ‘Cassations’ at the 92nd Street Y 2012-10-09T21:57:26Z It remains as she described it, “a cathedral of stillness and peace.” Footsteps: Rachel Carson’s ‘Rugged Shore’ in Maine 2012-08-22T20:00:28Z But Ms. Mulligan achingly conveys just how hard-won this defensive stillness is. Review: ‘Skylight,’ With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Wild hectoring gave way to cemetery stillness only in the last encore, Ivor Gurney’s uneasy, unearthly “Sleep.” Reviews: Ian Bostridge, Tenet and Tallis Scholars in Performance 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z I crouched down low, taking wobbly baby giraffe steps into the deep stillness. Tourists are trickling back to Egypt 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z “There is a silence of deathlike stillness that gets on the nerves, and the sameness is wearisome.” How America’s open road inspired three women of the 1910s 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z But she also, at crucial moments, displays the stillness that is an invaluable part of any actor's armoury. Port – review 2013-01-29T12:59:14Z A concussion in his mid-60s left him with a sense that “stillness was my friend,” he said. Dia:Beacon Celebrates Steve Paxton’s Choreography 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Its overriding characteristic is a sort of stillness. Boring architecture? Yes, please 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The gleam of their belts, the luster of a marigold fabric registered splendidly, but so, too, did the interplay of rhythmic traveling and richly sculptural stillness. Erasing Borders Festival Focuses on Indian Dance 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The technique emphasises developing a connection with silence and accessing the “stillness” within yourself. Ssshhh! How the cult of quiet can change your life 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The restrained camerawork in “Departing Gesture” subtly heightens the contrast between life and death, movement and stillness. A Documentary of Funeral Care for Abandoned AIDS Patients 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z A declamatory and virtuosic cadence by Mr. Dicterow led into a muted passage that was utterly absorbing in its balance of stillness and suspense. Music Review: Farewells Begin for New York Philharmonic’s Glenn Dicterow 2014-01-20T22:26:57Z As images alone they have an impersonal beauty, a compelling stillness and strangeness. Abstract and affecting, the new Mars pictures are a confrontation with the sublime | Sam Leith 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z It can hoard its malice in great stillness for a long time, all the while pretending to look the other way. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The exquisite, lyrical stillness with which Becker imbues the performances is, in turn, matched by his fanatical physical reconstruction of the era, with costumes, styles, décor, and dialogue of a seemingly documentary specificity. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z I hate everything about them: webs, legs, suspended bodies, the scuttling, the prolonged stillness, their silence. How I overcame my fear of spiders 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Weeks of frigid stillness had an unrelenting quality about them — in memory, at least — and spring seemed so far off in early January that it was pointless to think about it. Perspective | Climate change has altered the winter season and the gardener’s sense of it 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z For the most part, however, there was an outward stillness and an almost relentless routine to the Magrittes’ lives in Brussels. Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z I didn’t feel any stillness or clarity, only a small moment of feeling manly. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z And such Harlem Renaissance artists as Aaron Douglas and James VanDerZee capture buoyant physical creativity in a moment of stillness. Motor City exhibition ‘Dance’ shows how motion has long inspired American art 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “I’m trying to cultivate a taste for stillness.” Will Smith vs. Will Smith vs. Ang Lee 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Yet this pace leaves space for moments of stillness and allows the material to reveal itself. But only when animals and outstandingly absurd human beings enter the film does our interest truly wake up. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z The silence of early morning, the stillness of the watcher, both were palpable on the page, and a similarly arresting scene draws us into Forna’s new novel “Happiness”: Review | ‘Happiness’: An exquisite novel about how chance and love connect us 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The flowers, the stillness, it was all a fitting way to conclude this tour of a once violent, raging, volcanic landscape that is now so very peaceful and welcoming. In Oregon’s lone National Park, hike the country’s deepest, bluest lake 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z As she spoke, she conveyed a stillness verging on solemnity. After ‘Mission: Impossible,’ Rebecca Ferguson’s Impossible Calm Amid a Whirlwind Mission 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Filip Depuydt, my guide through Belgium’s Borinage region, less than 60 miles southwest of Brussels, adjusts his audio player as the recorded voice cuts through the stillness with Van Gogh’s words: Where Van Gogh the pastor became Van Gogh the painter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Viewers also saw and heard something unusual in the TV news environment: long stretches of unnarrated live action — the speaking of prayers, the clop of horse hooves — and moments of stillness. Her Majesty’s Last Broadcast 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Their stillness is in tension with the dirgelike motion of the train, which accounts for some of the blurring that occurs in the photos, particularly around the edges. Review | ‘The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The new guest drops a hairbrush, piercing the room’s stillness. Top bunk for $30 a day: Life inside one of Airbnb’s modern boardinghouses 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z And yet these images’ profound stillness, a marked quality of their beauty, imbues all—even youth—with a fragrant and sensuous melancholy. Mississippi History 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Ms. Cojocaru, so well known for appearing as a fragile and innocent teenager, found unexpected qualities of weight and stillness. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z Grossman radiates wisdom, modesty, kindness and, above all, a sort of stillness: contemplative and tender, but steely, too. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z Sometimes at Meeting when I'm restless, I sense the stillness of those around me and it reminds me of what I'm doing, so that I sit still and try again. Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence 2013-03-14T12:05:01Z Finally, Christie settled into a heavy stillness, eyes fixed in an expression of helpless horror, mouth slack. Chris Christie steals the show 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z On the heels of slash and burn of “The Battle Joined,” “Surrender” is remarkable for its palpable stillness and impenetrable frustration for all parties. "Outlander" recap: "Surrender" shows the high cost of loyalty 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z “Requiem” bases most of its sentimental power on stillness or the swish of a skirt. Dance Review: A ?Requiem? Unwraps Stillness Swathed in Silk 2011-02-16T22:54:59Z As Dido, she is piercing at many individual moments, muted in others, better in motion than in stillness. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z There is much footage of teeming markets and the marble stillness of the palace but no sense of what those sights mean to Barry, who increasingly seems more blank than enigmatic. Stereotypes, preconceptions topple a lavish 'Tyrant' 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z There’s a great deal of tumult and thrashing in the action sequences but little sense of dynamic stillness; here, when there’s no onscreen agitation, there’s merely nothing happening. “Mission: Impossible—Fallout” Is Basically a Two-and-a-Half-Hour Making-Of Sequence 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z There’s a stillness but also a richness to them.” Film: An Indie Gumshoe in Oregon?s Gloom 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z Another feature of Odissi is its sculptural stillnesses, sometimes maintained on one leg. An Odissi Dancer Contains Sublime Multitudes 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Those seconds of stillness were all I needed for my film, yet as the camera captured them I felt the rope tighten around my ankle and knew I’d made a terrible mistake. Experience: I got stuck hanging naked from a tree 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z And he reaches for a stillness at the center that is just like what Noh asks us to do in opposition to our impossibly busy lives. Noh theater: The world's oldest stage tradition is popping up everywhere 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z When Dougherty kills the noise, the silence resounds, and the dancers return to stillness, in a line again, now at the lip of the stage. Review: The Inescapable Vibrations of ‘Violet’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Despite the stillness of the images, it is possible to make out the sounds of the waves — a constant, urgent rhythm that scores the American story. A Photographer Looks Deep Into America’s Past 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Pitt and Jolie Pitt fit the roles well, but they don’t bring idiosyncratic heft to the silence and the stillness. Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By the Sea” Is Personal and Daring 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z There are plenty of opportunities to encounter such stillness in the far-flung American wilds. The Getaway: Seeking Solitude (With a Guide) 2013-05-15T16:20:11Z There’s something about a desert breeze, the silence and stillness of the terrain, and the big sky that always gets me. How Jason Reynolds Distinguishes Y.A. Books From Adult Fiction 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z “The bridge between a public life and private life is stillness, having time to remember who you are and who you are not,” Williams wrote. Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z But the description we read by a fan on YouTube captured best the sepulchral stillness and intimations of industrial clamour: "It's like hearing a church down the road from a steel factory". New band of the day ? No 884: William Basinski 2010-10-11T16:11:00Z It’s a film that contains both bustling images and delicate vibes, inner-voice stillness and subtle soundscapes, all of which can flourish in a movie theater. ‘2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Review: Small Bites 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “I’ve been realizing that I’m comfortable with stillness. You listen to the music, the singing, the guitar. It’s like a battery, slowly charging, and then, boom.” A Fenómeno of the Flamenco World 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z One girl dives upside down, beaming, into a cradle of outstretched arms, then flings herself back upright into perfect stillness atop the shoulders of a girl who’s standing on another cheerleader’s shoulders. The Pathos of “Cheer” and the Extraordinary Deceptions of Cheerleading 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z After a week of road tripping through the countryside, I remained struck by the stillness, by how quiet my mind felt in this place. I found an amazing tomato-rosemary focaccia recipe in Wales 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Novels, she tell us, should aspire to "spiritual" greatness, and The Professor of Poetry is about "time and stillness and music". The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-20T08:00:12Z They pose in stillness, with their eyes open, or move between poses very slowly, eyes closed. To See and Be Seen: These Dancers Make Disability Visible 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Pearce, in contrast, is all stoical stillness, and watching his actions turns the movie into a not entirely unengaging guessing game. ‘The Rover,’ a Drama With Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z But there were moments of stillness as well. ‘Brilliant,’ 41 and Lost to AIDS: The Theater World Asks Why 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Among the stillness of a whitewashed snow-globe world, we spent many hours here rosy-cheeked and relaxed, enjoying the hygge of the lodge’s main room. Chasing Yukon magic: Fall under the spell of the northern lights and all northwestern Canada has to offer 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z At best, he argued, their work carves out a pristine space for reflection—one not “entirely unlike the mental stillness and ‘othering’ fostered by poetry’s traditional techniques.” Yrsa Daley-Ward Breaks Out of the “Instapoetry” Pack with Her Memoir “The Terrible” 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z In between, there are marching bands, the wail of police sirens, shouts and silences, like that stillness at the centre of the tornado. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z I fire off another blast, which sends the turkey hurtling down the path to stillness. First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z When, at the film's end, Doinel races away, the camera steadily keeps pace with him, another image of energy and stillness. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z Fans of Garland’s breakthrough film “Ex Machina” found familiar stylish fingerprints: Unrushed storytelling, cool menace, elegant doses of philosophy, an affinity with darkness and stillness, profound musical choices and striking visual effects. Nomination surprises: ‘The Mandalorian,’ Quibi get Emmy love 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z But when Ray sits back and lets the music wash over him, there’s dignity in his awe-struck stillness. Review: In ‘The Holler Sessions,’ a D.J. as True Believer 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z As soon as we set foot on California’s High Sierra Trail, the clamour of the world fell away, replaced by the rhythm of our footsteps, the chatter of forest birds and a feeling of stillness. Sky-high trekking: taking on California’s High Sierra Trail 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z At certain moments, they attain a stillness at odds with their horsey nature. Bartabas: dances with horses 2011-02-21T21:31:00Z In city parks, hoopoes and hornbills are plentiful; the haunting call of the koel can break the stillness of a muggy afternoon. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z And while the agonizing stillness of Brünnhilde and especially Wotan in their long final scene is effective in theory, Rose and Jones do not quite sell his endless impassivity, and the tension sometimes slackens. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Wonder, stillness and anxiety all play key roles in McEwan’s “Last Day of Summer,” too. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Like most of his staring figures and usually glaring creatures, Hirshfield’s paintings themselves seem eternally alert, with an absolute stillness and absence of narrative that seem notably modern. Morris Hirshfield Rises Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z This meant that it had been given a certain look: monumental, monolithic, luminous, lapidary, imbued with the moody stillness of Stoller’s stated influence, the pioneering French documentary photographer Eugène Atget. Ezra Stoller Turned Buildings Into Monuments 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z But more impressive is the compelling stillness of his performance. Why Vice should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z At the same time the artists were evolving performances based on stillness, silence and endurance. Art Review | 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present': At MoMA, a Performance Artist Endures 2010-03-11T22:56:00Z Yet a sense of stillness wasn’t beyond her. Blues-rock singer Trixie Whitley returns to feel it all at Hotel Cafe 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Slapped awake, he retuned to the stillness and a life outdoors. Damaraland, Namibia: where ‘each day lasts 100 hours’ 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z But the moments of stillness in “Human Hours” are equally compelling. The Best Poetry of 2018 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Last September, five performers of uncommonly concentrated stillness appeared at the Harvey Theater, and a circle seemed to have been rounded into something like eternity. A Cutting-Edge Impresario Leaves BAM: What Was His Best Work? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z This endless Irish loop of stillness shattered by gusts and of sunshine hijacked by clouds brought to mind my mother’s moods, which I understood in a whole new way. To Ireland, a Son’s Journey Home 2012-10-28T10:30:19Z His “there is no one, not even the wind” comes directly from his experience of the “space and solitude, the stillness and light of the desert,” as he writes in a preface to the work. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z We will all watch the stillness of her study, and the light, together. My Thanksgiving panic 2012-11-22T00:30:00Z Interweaving virtuoso instrumental solos with exactingly difficult ensembles and pulsing rhythmic monotones, this is music that rejects stillness and aspires to extraordinary exhilaration. Music of Today; Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-10-01T21:40:00Z The stillness that comes with doing one activity, instead of frantically multitasking, is unnerving. How to write a novel this year: 'I'm surprised at how much time I find' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z London’s fogs mostly resulted from the gritty smoke of domestic coal fires and “the noxious emissions of factory chimneys,” coupled with the right atmospheric wet and stillness. “London Fog,” a study of the great city’s legendary atmosphere 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The vastness of those empty pages roars with a stillness that Williams is loath to endure. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z The filmmakers, largely forgoing a soundtrack, skillfully manipulate stillness, silence and anomie to unsettling effect — at times evoking the ambient dread and decay of, say, Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion.” Review: In ‘Hard Labor,’ a Brazilian Couple’s Unsettling Struggle 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Kander is a master of what might be called "epic stillness". Nadav Kander's Yangtze photographs show a people sold down the river 2010-10-20T08:31:00Z He would go to the empty diner and sit in the stillness. Why Starting a Restaurant During the Pandemic Was a Smart Move 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z But scattershot as this work is, there's no denying the wizardry of its final image as the dancers slowly scale the set – their bodies calmed to lucid stillness by the aria from the Goldberg Variations. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness – review 2013-04-08T11:26:00Z As soon as Ms. Vaidyanathan began, she compellingly showed two opposite forces: communicative charm, in which eyes and every part of the body speak, and decisive, uncompromising stillness. Dance Review: Indian Dances at the Erasing Borders Festival 2013-08-16T22:24:56Z Patiño captures the village’s inhabitants in utter stillness, perhaps deep in thought, bereavement or prayer. ‘Red Moon Tide’ Review: A Village Paralyzed in Grief 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Amid a lingering, eerie stillness, the voice went on: “He is always manning the barricades of civilization.” Review: ‘Real Enemies,’ at the BAM Harvey Theater, Sheds Light on Conspiracies 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z And in “La Belle Ferronnière,” despite her physical stillness, this feeling for flux, though subtle, is on full display. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The chorus of Swans, especially in their moments of collective, luminous stillness, remain the definition of a living work of art. Mariinsky Ballet: Swan Lake ? review 2011-07-26T17:29:09Z This time she seemed, if possible, yet more beautifully rapt, delivering gestures of contemplation and grief in a steady crescendo up to a point of urgency, only then to return to quiet stillness. Vail International Dance Festival Sets Itself Apart With an Enchanting Lineup 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Nunez works from a core of great stillness, even as her face and body remain hyperresponsive to the nuances of the movement. MoveTube: Wayne McGregor's Infra 2013-01-31T12:34:56Z I studied technique with Merce for four years, and some of this time was spent trying to master stillness. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z And it's also scary because she has to sit in silence and stillness and reconcile all these demons that she's put away for so long. "Keep Breathing" creators talk survival, not Googling solutions and that controversial ending 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z In music as in dancing, ballet needs elements of stillness and even repose within movement and even within speed. Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z “The truth is in the stillness, the stuff we haven’t resolved yet is in the stillness, the conversations we are avoiding is in the stillness, all of our trauma is in the stillness,” she said. Doyle keeps ‘Untamed’ conversation going in journal, podcast 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z It was “Walkaround Time” that gave this exhibition its marvelous poster image, with a James Klosty photograph of the former dancer Carolyn Brown sublimely exemplifying the Cunningham principle of motion in stillness. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z He really understood the heart of this character and the stillness of him and that kind of regality he has.” In ‘The English,’ Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer Saddle Up 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Lieber, astounding in both her moments of strength and stillness, holds Bacon tightly and spins her so that her legs fly through the air. Review: Looking for a Hero? Hold on to These Dancers 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z And unlike the other attack sites, it is a place of uncommon quiet and stillness. United 93 families dedicate Sept. 11 memorial 2011-09-11T02:50:00Z I actually held my breath for a moment and just let the stillness of these words do what had to be done after this immense journey. A Poetry Collection That Squints Hard at the Culture, in Pain and in Joy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Her pace is as moderate and steady as a ticking clock, whereas Mr. Naharin loves extreme slowness, a resistance to the flow of time that he follows with acceleration and sudden stillness. Review: Ohad Naharin’s ‘Last Work’ Isn’t 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z It seems to want to abolish stillness, as if ashamed of silence–as it were, a criminal running endless charity marathons. What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism? 2012-07-11T14:00:31Z The timeless stillness of sacred space expresses shared history and shared promise. Book review: ‘Sacred Spaces,’ a report on Modernism in religious buildinghs 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Was this the sort of stillness van Gogh experienced when he was in Arles on this same June day in 1888? The Selfie-Drone: Invasion of the Vacation Snatchers 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Its chilly stillness countermands the visual delight of Walker Evans, Robert Frank and other earlier photographers, but it also negates the diaristic intimacy of “American Surfaces.” Stephen Shore’s MoMA Survey Shows a Restless Reformer as a Master of Photography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z “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. Dancers Strip to Essentials in ‘Basketball’ and ‘TranSenses’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z There was a lot of stillness, reflection, prayer and meditation to bolster me up as emotionally, mentally and spiritually as possible. The Women of ‘Wakanda Forever’ 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Iyer is known primarily for his travel writing, his erudite essays on literature, and his wise, restrained accounts of his Buddhist-inflected striving for stillness and contentment. Pico Iyer’s Japanese Love Story, from Spring to “Autumn Light” 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z “Behbahani's death brings stillness to our eternity. I want her to keep singing.” Simin Behbahani, poet and 'Lioness of Iran,' dies at 87 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Even better is Henry's capacity for stillness, the sure sign of a first-rate actor. Fences – review 2013-06-26T23:55:15Z There is his agile use of stillness that subtly brushes the surface of raw emotions. Review: A Sophisticated Journey Continues 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The body on the ground, moving slowly or approaching stillness, is a recurring image in the work of Kim Brandt. The Week in Arts: Dancing Around Graves, Beach Read Flicks and ‘GLOW’ 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Within this rich world is the sort of stoic stillness that Mr. Morris can stage so effortlessly: dancers stand with their palms flattened at their hips, legs separated and feet firmly planted. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z Note the surprised stillness that overtakes her when she admits that there were certain details of her relationship with Ray that she never divulged to the police. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z If I discovered something redemptive in this experience, it’s that capacity for stillness. Life with migraines: ‘It feels like a creature is pushing itself through my skull’ | Anna Altman 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Carefully choosing his words, he added, “You need so much control for all that stillness and discipline.” Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z But he was a poet of deep unease, and in this unease he longed for stillness, silence, and the peace of lying down. My John Berryman: A Poet of Deep Unease 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z She loved Nova Scotia’s remoteness: “You’re just surrounded by so much beauty and stillness.” Ellen Page: ‘Being out became more important than any movie’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Early in the pandemic, Jaouad embarked on a different kind of adventure, one more about stillness and reflection. Review | At 22, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with cancer. Now she’s delivering a hopeful message when we need it the most. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z A related gift is the space to finally be still; more than any exotic destination, stillness appears to be the elusive luxury of our age. In Defense of the Three-Week Vacation 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Poised for action at a grand piano, he disrupted an expectant stillness with a turbulent digression. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z So while Caesar’s emotions vividly play across his face, he usually maintains a remarkable physical stillness. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z “Judas,” a new novel by Amos Oz, is a paradox of stillness and provocation. In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Reeves also smartly recreated the sense of tension that built in the original film's stillness, and similarly, the quiet moments that allowed the two young characters to forge their bond. Capsule reviews: 'The Social Network,' 'Let Me In' 2010-09-30T22:39:00Z This illuminating stillness is a gift shared by few English-speaking actresses. Jane Eyre: Mamma Mia, a Star Is Born! 2011-03-11T06:45:00Z Jolie is clearly going for a kind of icy stillness as the wronged fairy who punishes poor Sleeping Beauty for the sins of her cruel, fairy wing-stealing pops, the nefarious King Stefan. Maleficent 2: the worst example of Angelina's Jolieland syndrome 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Nine naked people pose on a grassy lawn, like statues in a sculpture garden: standing, sitting, squatting, reclining in stillness. Review: These Art-Historical Nudes Become Bodies in Time 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Within the opening minutes he opposes stillness and movement, horizontal and vertical lines, staccato and legato dynamics, closed and open body shapes. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet Performs Liam Scarlett?s ?Viscera? 2012-01-30T22:12:57Z If the action has become more over-egged, with the Countess chasing Cherubino a little too freshly, and much running around where stillness is required, it is never less than thoughtful. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z But her triumphant moment is that positively reptilian stillness during the sting. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 3: War Is Easy 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z By turns inviting and opaque, Ms. Adams turns softness and quiet into heroic qualities, keeping her voice low, modulated, and using stillness to draw you near. Review: Aliens Drop Anchor in ‘Arrival,’ but What Are Their Intentions? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In her work, silence and stillness are typically more resonant than speech and scurry. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The dreadful stillness that follows their excursion are eerily brilliant in a way we haven’t seen for most of this action-movie season. The Walking Dead season six, episode 14: Twice As Far 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Lang is known for music of guileless transparency and stillness: qualities that are often associated with medieval style. Review: Pérotin and Lang, 800 Years Apart, at Trinity Church 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It was hard to answer, because of course I saw the stillness and decay; but I could also see it just as it was, lit up and full of life. Can This Amusement Park Be Saved? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, the dance plays against the drums with stillness and calm. Review: ‘Prize’ Puts Dance and Drumming in the Spotlight 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z She speaks as eloquently in thin whispers as in bold, vibrant tones, and the audience’s stillness — throughout each piece and after the end of each — spoke volumes about Isbin’s expressive powers. Guitarist Sharon Isbin shows off dynamic range at Phillips Collection 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Newhart’s stillness gives his every blink, cough and head turn an illusion of meaning. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The restrained camerawork subtly heightens the contrast between life and death, movement and stillness. A Documentary of Funeral Care for Abandoned AIDS Patients 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Melamid suppresses the momentary vitality of his sitters in favour of ceremonial stillness, turning each into an effigy of the same size and proportions. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Flotation pools promise to give that stillness back to you, even if you have never meditated a day in your life. Suffer from anxiety? Try a sensory deprivation tank 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z A native of Los Angeles, where he lives with actress Maya Rudolph and their four children, Anderson bounds between a bouncy, youthful energy and a thoughtful, controlled stillness. Paul Thomas Anderson takes on 'Inherent Vice' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Beautifully recorded, it begins in a kind of cathedral stillness — Mr. Rubalcaba didn’t come by its title casually — and slowly warms to its own premise. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z With her preternatural stillness and sculptured hauteur, Ms. Swinton has always looked ready for her close-up with D. W. Griffith; few contemporary movie actresses can hold you with their gaze as effortlessly as she does. Review: ‘A Bigger Splash,’ With a Speechless Tilda Swinton, Is Ready for Its Close-Up 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The story couldn’t be simpler, and the opera deepens not through the complexity of the plot, but from the emotional weight of living with these characters in a kind of contemplative stillness. Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z But his virtuoso turn depends on the stillness of Mulligan's Kyra. Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z In that one, there’s a sense of stillness and waiting and repetition in order to build your strength. Tapping Into the Feminine Wild (With Help From Simone de Beauvoir) 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z López-Gómez helped the amassed musicians create a lovely stillness in the Friar Laurence music, and the loud duel scene was impressively crisp. Review | Simone Dinnerstein, Havana Lyceum Orchestra join forces with NOI orchestra 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Magical in a state of early morning stillness, the 840-acre refuge quickly loses its tranquility as the sun rises. Planning a New York City trip? Ditch Central Park for this less crowded option. 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z But the soul of the film, the reason why we see ourselves in its greatness, its stillness, its humanness, lies in the chemistry and connection between the two leads Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. "When Harry Met Sally" is the perfect fall movie that we need now more than ever 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z There are moments of stillness, of serenity in the film. Q&A: ‘The Red Turtle’ director talks about making his first feature film 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Meditation often takes the form of perfect stillness — it is in quieting the body that we quiet the mind. Your phone can't save you now: On Buddhism, technology and the alleged supremacy of the mind 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z She does, however, create stillness, as evocatively as any dancer today. Dance Review: Whelan and New York City Ballet Newcomers at Koch Theater 2012-02-02T23:07:50Z The intrusions on those stillnesses — the sound of a car engine, a knock on the door — keep Barbara wary and vigilant. ‘Barbara’: a doctor’s quiet, fascinating battle of wills in Germany 2012-12-20T21:54:47Z They have a calm, summing-up feeling, and the slight movements of the string somehow add to their sense of enveloping stillness. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z This formality — along with expanses of startling solid colors — contributes to the hypnotic stillness of her mainly autobiographical works. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z She is famous for moving very slowly, and slowness and stillness are still crucial aspects of her wraithlike persona, imparting the sense that she is there and not there. Eiko Invites You to Her Inner Land of Wraiths 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z And stillness recurs, with dance energy radiating even in immobility. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The title track, a ballad, enacts a dialogue between stillness and unrest. Eric Revis, Holding Down the Center Again 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z He may be making a motion picture, but Mr. Aljafari is attracted to stillness. | 'Port of Memory': Stillness Amid A Shifting World 2011-02-13T22:59:50Z These poets’ directness suits their media, at their best disrupting never-ending streams of gossip, selfies and opinion-mongering with stark emotional clearings that aren’t entirely unlike the mental stillness and “othering” fostered by poetry’s traditional techniques. Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Set in Colombia, "Memoria" is firmly rooted in this style, as indicated by the stillness of the opening shot. Tilda Swinton moves through the dreamy and confounding "Memoria" at her own frequency 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Looking at these works we are struck by the incongruous liveliness of the child's bright red hair, exactly as we see the tense stillness of the face, the drawn lips. Edvard Munch: the ghosts of vampires and victims 2012-06-22T21:55:13Z There’s a stillness to his beauty that draws you in and just enough warmth to suggest he welcomes the attention. Review: ‘Mojave’ Looks at the Corrosive Effects of Hollywood 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The exertion leads to stillness: dancers curl on the floor in fetal positions or pose around a white chair, the only object on the stage. Dance in Review 2011-06-17T22:48:58Z More poetically, she recognizes that “each important moment in life has about it a stillness, an extra beat, an awareness of the edges.” Review | ‘Theory of Bastards’ is a feminist novel, but not the one you’re expecting 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Indian classical dance abounds in dualisms and polarities — not just the abhinaya/nritta one but, also more basically, the contrast between sculptural stillness and rhythmic vivacity. Music Academy in Chennai Hosts Indian Dance Festival 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z But Pitt’s performance is less a matter of duets than a series of onscreen solos, centered on the furious stillness of his face and its frozen evocation of volcanic passion and pressurized depths. “Ad Astra,” Reviewed: James Gray’s Masterwork of Personal Film in an Alien Setting 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Through the stillness of her camera and the flexibility of her vision, she transforms a skeletal tale into a rich portrait of innocence poised on the very brink of awareness. Movie Review: ‘Nana,’ by Valérie Massadian, Enters a 4-Year-Old’s World 2013-01-25T01:47:55Z Gradually, they begin to shake off the stillness in Robert Wilson-esque slow motion, still intently staring ahead. How to Listen to Rock ’n’ Roll in a Theater 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Roach’s approach is a combination, as she puts it, of “know-how and woo-woo”; she lives surrounded by “life buzzing to the maximum and also the deepest stillness.” Summer Reading 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Eiko, whose own work deals vividly, sometimes mournfully, with slowness and stillness, brings out the best in her colleagues. Eiko, Koma and Soloists Perform in Sacred Space 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In the arts of speech, of rhetoric, of gesture, of colour, of light, of movement, of proportion, of speed, of darkness, of stillness, of silence. The Young Vic hits middle age ? and discovers some grey areas 2010-10-20T12:04:00Z The book is punctuated with moments of stillness, like a portrait of a young wrestler whose hair is being pulled up into a knot. | Craig McDean's Sumo 2011-09-09T15:03:03Z At 282 feet below sea level, Badwater is the most visited place in Death Valley, and on this day the salty pool of water reflected the surrounding mountains in its stillness. Journeys: Death Valley: Three Million Acres of Weird 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z A few years ago, I travelled through the area with some Lithuanian friends and we all felt the same sense of stillness. A Corner of Europe Frozen in Time 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z As he walked home in the snow, he was so moved by the stillness of the starlit, holy night that he wrote a poem about it. Celebrating ‘Silent Night’ and Christmas in Austria 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z “American Sniper” is a movie of violent action—but its action is surrounded by a terrible stillness. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z A flurry of makeup, hair and wardrobe adjustment preceded each session, and during these a whir of human, mechanical and electronic activity coalesced around the goal of capturing a single moment of perfect stillness. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z Midnight on the lake was amazing — somewhere between night and day, hovering in a platinum stillness. A Botanist in Swedish Lapland 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In its evocation of stillness and madness, it captures the flavor of Ellison’s prologue perfectly. How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z They made coffee, looked at each other and marveled at the stillness. Kids are finally back at school. Parents are trying to reclaim their sanity. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The scenery is very impressive, but the stillness and the quiet — that is what stayed with me. Tips for visiting U.S. national parks from someone who visited them all 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z A third work, Lux Aeterna, characterises the cold, silent stillness of infinite outer space. What I'm thinking about ... conducting Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey 2013-03-06T13:28:05Z There's rapt stillness at the end, then tumultuous applause, the entire audience on its feet. Tristan und Isolde in widescreen 2010-09-21T20:29:00Z In separate but interconnected solos, the three women deconstructed and adapted the soft, yielding qualities of bharatanatyam and its moments of stillness and playfulness. Perspective | Best of dance 2021: Paul Taylor live at the Kennedy Center, Ashwini Ramaswamy and Jacob Jonas’s short films 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z It isn’t about being first in line or chasing specific deals, but rather experiencing a moment of stillness before the Friday storm. This American Mess 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z There’s a haunted stillness to the character, which the camera, even hand-held, persuasively expresses. Movie Review: ‘Middle of Nowhere,’ Directed by Ava DuVernay 2012-10-11T23:09:07Z All day Friday, the bricks-and-mortar itself seemed to glare in the eerie stillness; and the moment the faces of the bombers were broadcast to the world, a million eyes scanned the city and surrounding areas. Boxer who fought Tsarnaev: “Wish I’d known he was evil” 2013-04-23T23:41:00Z Their stories have been described as possessing an "aura of charged stillness", a term that could also be applied to the quietly bleak paintings of Edward Hopper. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z They are poised with a stillness that is a necessary part of the process to ensure a clear image with a lengthy exposure. Capturing a 21st-Century War With 19th-Century Technology 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Within a few sentences, however, we are jolted from frozen stillness into a far colder reality. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z There is little of the painting’s stillness in the busy, well-crafted score, which sounds both mysterious and ominous. Review: At Seattle Symphony, a winning night from opener to encore 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z In those days I was taken up by exploring a quality of stillness within an experience of slow time, for which the motif of a quiet sky seemed perfect. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z Slowly our perceptions settle down, approaching the stillness and clarity embodied in the paintings. They look, we look; people's gaze is the focus in Dan McCleary works 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The M.R.I.s required absolute stillness for up to 35 minutes or more. U2’s Music Shaped My Life. Then It Helped Save It. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z He’s a rare dancer, whose big, beautiful legs bring endless texture and plush to jumps; and he’s a fine actor, wonderful in tiny moments of stillness or powerful gestures. Review: Two True Artists, One Dramatically Limp ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s something about the sudden stillness after getting your blood circulating. A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z The scene had a sober moral stillness that made quietness and humility and acceptance seem very important. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Writing a novel also requires much more stillness and concentration, which is difficult but very personally rewarding. Review | John Green talks about his first novel since ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Other neighborhoods possessed the unnerving stillness of paintings by de Chirico, Magritte or Hopper. Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The pace eases into a moon-gazing stillness: Bach in his left hand, Debussy in his right. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Part of the prep with Garth was trying to find stillness. Dev Patel: ‘I’m just this guy from Rayners Lane – how the hell did this happen?’ 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Outside, a zillion tourists mill about in MoMA’s labyrinth of galleries, but here, behind the scenes, there’s a peaceful, studious stillness. Finding Yoko Ono’s New York 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But at this film's quiet heart is a character who almost isn't there, whose very stillness speaks volumes, and whose story, though never quite told, captures our imaginations. 'Albert Nobbs': Gender-bender is wistful, intriguing 2012-01-26T22:08:01Z His gift for stillness is pronounced here, though chiefly seen with his back to the audience. Dance Review: Jonah Bokaer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2012-08-02T21:53:05Z Mr. Biesenbach said, “Even his paintings are about movement and stillness, action and inaction.” Shifting Sands of Societies and Politics 2011-04-28T16:06:17Z Even before the isolation of the past year, Valerie June’s artistic intuition had led her toward thoughts of stillness, meditation and inwardness. The Time-Warped Charm of Valerie June 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Today anybody can still see avian stillnesses, flutterings, wingspreads and formations here. Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z She prefers subtle feeling, good lighting and even moments of stillness. Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness. It was a rare moment of stillness for the 142-year-old Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue, also known as the Park Avenue Armory. A Gilded Age Setting for a Huge Art Show 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Click on image to enlarge This photograph – taken in the Black Forest in 1964 for a Vogue shoot – is my favourite of the set because it's got a stillness, a mystery about it. Peter Rand's best photograph 2012-07-11T16:25:04Z Suzman stares and stares as if into a bottomless pit, her mute stillness more profound than any scream, and it feels as if the room temperature has dropped to freezing. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z In contrast, I often felt, reading “The Crying Book,” that Christle wanted to consecrate stillness. “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “What Comes After” is a mystery — and a gritty meditation on loss and redemption, drenched in stillness and grief. What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z In live shows, a star who performs to full stadiums is not allowed relative stillness or careful movement, even when she surrounds herself with athletic artistry. The unreasonable, degrading expectations imposed on stars' bodies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z I forgot about Michael and was delivered back to something crude and familiar, a time when my life hinged on maintaining an animal stillness. Modern Love: From a Moment of Fear, a Lifetime of Clarity 2010-12-30T22:14:53Z “I love emptiness, I love stillness, I love vast evacuation,” she said. Gillian Walsh, Taking Dance to a Still Place 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z It's the stillness of someone in perfect control, someone quietly absorbing a bright unfolding fame, the stillness of a turned-off fountain in a shopping centre after dark, pennies glistening at the bottom. Rinko Kikuchi: the interview 2011-02-27T00:05:20Z On Nov. 9, in the post-election stillness, most Americans will adjust to the notion of a new president. Obama made D.C. look cool. Will Clinton or Trump make it boring again? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The highlight was an expansive yet poised, open-eyed performance of the dusky Composition No. 56, which pivots from jumbles of activity to softly droning, continuously mutating stillness. Review: Wet Ink Ensemble Pays Tribute to Anthony Braxton 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Deathly two-dimensional, the painting shows Cixi in extreme stillness; pearls cascade down her neckline, and on her hands are green press-on fingernails as long as eagles’ talons. Gentlewomen of the Forbidden City: The Power, the Intrigue, the Clothes 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z "She is wonderful as the barmaid married to a Polish airman," says Libby Purves on a page you can't read, "naive, cheerful, yet radiating immense doubt and pain in stillness." What to say about ... Flare Path with Sienna Miller 2011-03-15T15:50:48Z The music “comes directly from my experience of the space and solitude, the stillness and light of the desert.” Emerald City Music will present premiere of John Luther Adams work 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z At first, the ballet seems to oppose stillness and movement. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z A container ship lurked in the mist, occasionally breaking the eerie stillness with a horn blast. Great white sharks abound at a marine sanctuary just off the San Francisco coast 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z A maplike user guide lays out the first scenario: “An ancient community lives on the side of a volcano in harmonious stillness. One day, the ground beneath their feet begins to tremble.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Otherwise, the bow should be a subtle modification of absolute stillness. 'She is the Queen, whereas you are Joe Shmuck': Clive James on The Crown 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z And she doesn’t even have to be moving: Her inner vibrations are just as lucid in stillness. Whether Dancing or Still, the Body in ‘Ema’ Tells the Story 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z On Hogarth Lane, the traffic à la mode scorns stillness. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z Pregnant with meaning though her stillness is, we are probably fortunate that Ms. O’Connell’s character eventually succumbs to her companion’s perky friendliness. Theater Review: ‘The Vandal’ by Hamish Linklater, at the Flea Theater 2013-02-01T03:00:00Z In their epic scale and detail, they evince an almost painterly sense of stillness that is utterly at odds with the devastation they depict. Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an uncomfortable art 2011-08-09T08:00:02Z Working from an action figure of an L.A.P.D. officer posed against a mirror, aiming an automatic pistol, Mr. Considine constructs an image in which the same stillness reads as dry, deadly aggression. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But there are even more endearing moments when stillness is required, such as a powerful scene in which Eve asks Enzo to stand watch over her on a desperate night — and he does. 'The Art of Racing In the Rain' at Book-It: an amazing dog wagging his tale 2012-04-25T18:30:29Z This ingenious device allows the reader time and visual space, making manifest the moment of stillness after a theoretical bomb has dropped. Can You Dismantle White Supremacy With Words? 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The music continues floating upward, growing more and more distant, until at last it dissolves into a deep and resonant stillness. What It’s Like to Hear the Desert in Music 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Her portraits exude a sense of quiet stillness that amplifies the surreal nature of an event merging Vodou imagery and political satire. 2010's best books 2010-12-10T14:14:00Z As one scene bleeds into the next, the dancers juxtapose their movements, which tend toward sharp and angular — aggressive partnering seems a constant if-all-else-fails proposition — with moments of stillness. Dance Review: Por Instantes at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-06-15T22:19:33Z I didn’t want to lean into that stillness. The day I lost my best friend: how two marriages changed everything 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z In both films, he contrasted a stony stillness with sudden explosions of manic action to convey meaning far beyond his few brief lines. Joe Turkel, the Spectral Bartender in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 94 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z In these scenes, there is stillness, a walk in the forest — that long, painfully sought moment of self-forgetfulness. Alison Bechdel’s Latest Offers Familiar Pleasures in Brighter Colors 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The music was so rich and diverse in aural colors, beginning with bells and gongs, and sweeping from spare moments of stillness to great pounding layers of instruments. Czech-U.S. Internet connection: Zbynek Mateju-Raiford Rogers' 'Still Life' 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Bringing those words to life are the choreographer’s spiraling, swooping turns and moments of hushed stillness. Review: Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence Presents 30th Anniversary Season 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s almost as if she’s an artist’s model, yet her body, with minuscule jolts or waves of motion, refuses to succumb to stillness. Review: Katie Workum Presents ‘Black Lakes’ at Danspace Project 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z But when I step into the garden, I value more than ever its state of stillness. The garden has lessons for us in this quarantine, if we are willing to stop and listen 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z His art is not all music and movement; there is a cleverly choreographed stillness as well. Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson 2011-03-14T11:48:11Z This acceptance of stillness in such a loud, spectacular book, which may also be read as Beatty's brand of narrative whispering, is where this novel is at its most dazzling and ironically its least absurd. Paul Beatty's bruising, satirical 'Sellout' is driven by black voices 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Kiat - Once In A While No man is an island, yet one gets the sense that the musical ideas that transpire in Sze Kiat's mind were born from the stillness of time. May's best music from across the MAP 2012-05-18T15:52:05Z Most of these new performers were handsome here, but the secret — ending the backbend with a photograph-like stillness before the phrase rushes on — sometimes seemed to be lost. New York City Ballet Introduces Its Future With a Flurry of ‘Nutcracker’ Debuts 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Their spare compositions emphasize silence and stillness, the artificiality of painting, the magnification of everyday detail and the division of reality into nearly abstract areas of color and texture. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The musicians imbued it with a strong sense of pulse and deeply hued colors, bringing exuberance to the agitated passages and serenity to its moments of stillness. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series, With New Compositions From Italy 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z A solo for Carolyn Brown made an astonishing use of sustained stillness. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z From the stillness around you a high glassy sound descends, like first light. What It’s Like to Hear the Desert in Music 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z On Maine’s Slopes, Plenty of Elbow Room IT was the quiet that was alarming, a stillness that almost bred unease. On Maine’s Slopes, Plenty of Elbow Room 2013-01-04T18:54:04Z There's something drugged about the stillness of the air ... just a white insect whir, a slush of fronds in the breeze ... 'Birds of Paradise': a teenage runaway leaves a wake of anguish 2011-09-22T20:47:04Z "As shipwrecked Viola, separated from her twin brother, Rebecca Hall is arresting, interspersing her lines with detail and conveying a remarkable stillness at key moments," says Hitchings. What to say about ... Twelfth Night 2011-01-20T17:11:23Z The entire venue was suspended in a hush stillness, and Bennett’s voice was so strong and clear that you could hear every crystalline note, every enunciated lyric, even in the cheap seats. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Dueted. Their Stars Were Reborn. 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z “The stillness of it — there was just this different feeling: that there is no place for us to go, we can only be right now.” Fear, joy, grief, gratitude: The whiplash of parenting during existential chaos 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The movement itself, inspired by aerobics and Zumba, embraces the space with near-heroic gestures — widely spaced triplets with shooting arms — then retreats into stillness. Dance Review: ‘Solos & Solitudes,’ Works by Clark, Gravel and Paggett 2013-04-27T00:02:42Z “I didn’t get that stillness on this random Sunday.” A Very Merry Holiday Redo 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z My woo-woo detectors blared, but I gleaned that the theme was finding balance — literally and metaphorically — between stillness and movement. At the Wanderlust festival, yoga, hula-hooping and just plain old feeling good She had a capacity for stillness, which she displayed in her many portrayals of downtrodden women. Anna Massey 2011-07-04T18:30:00Z In Malouf’s confidence and stillness, she demonstrates Salome’s newfound resolve, her sense of higher purpose. Salome, We Hardly Knew Ye 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z No choreographer ever made more use of stillness anyway — or, when moving, of multidirectionality. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z But stillness returns as a window washer appears dangling outside their apartment window, a working-class reminder that their frustrations are ridiculous. The recession and its discontents in films by Cao Fei at the Mistake Room 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z In “Another Story,” also for eight dancers — who this time remained largely apart and upright — stillness brought the body and the landscape into focus. Review: At Wave Hill, Trisha Brown Dances Fit Right In 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Shivalingappa almost always maintains a flow of motion; in moments of stillness we can still feel that she is dancing. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Joyce Theater 2012-06-28T21:07:57Z What remained was stillness, a quality that dominated the rest of this deeply composed show, which began gently with “Unluck” and “The Wilhelm Scream,” as Mr. Blake’s album does. Music Review: Beat After Beat, by the Book 2011-03-15T22:18:13Z “Resurrection,” by Larry King, formed an evocative arc from contemplative stillness through brash, steely fanfare to pensive reflection. Music Review: Kent Tritle at St. John the Divine - Review 2011-11-24T22:09:11Z When he reissued the book in altered form, it was because he wanted it to feel “less harmonious,” he explained, “closer to our actual experience of wonder, anxiety and stillness.” Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z In some, with his long hair and with posed stillness, Iggy Pop looks like an American Indian chief. ‘Iggy Pop Life Class,’ With Guess Who as the Model 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Eliot piercingly grasped the principle — obtained surely from Hindu religion — that, in dance, motion contains stillness and stillness motion. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Four Quartets’ Hits Poetic Heights 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z As for her compositions, Abercrombie favored empty stillness — whether threatening or gently mournful. This Surrealist Is Having a Moment, 66 Years After Her Last New York Show 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z From inside this stillness, the sound of a gong rang out like a bright explosion, followed by waves of amber overtones that seemed to dance with each other in space. Out of Silence, the Music of Meditation 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Throughout, Gerwig celebrates her characters both in action and in stillness. A Dancing Spirit Makes ‘Little Women’ Wild at Heart 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The image has Benton’s fluidity of line, but also an uncharacteristic stillness, more like Vuillard. Art Review: The Cornucopia Known as the Winter Antiques Show 2014-01-23T22:45:34Z How does this "happening" tie in with your Regen Projects show, which is largely about stillness, rather than motion? Sign spinners as performance art: Doug Aitken's 'happening' Saturday 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Abraham excels at so many aspects of choreography, among them instilling traditional movement with the gestural language of Black life and street dance or showing the subtle difference between slow motion and stillness. Review: Kyle Abraham Takes on Cunningham and, as Always, Love 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z I came to think of it as the Cherry Jensen feeling, that sense of stillness in the air behind her as she walked steadily up and down the mountain. Hidden from the newscycle and healed 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z His voice, barring a few stray croaks, was minnow-like: a terse, silvery thing, darting through the stillness or slicing through the brackish rumble. | Paul Simon: Many Roads to Salvation in Paul Simon?s Latest Show 2011-05-11T07:54:29Z Inside the vortex there is a sudden momentary stillness, as he stands in a column of dead air, before being pelted once again by the infernal dust. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z The second I join the stillness I feel nauseated. First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z An ancestor of Spanish flamenco, it uses lightning-fast spins punctuated by statuesque stillness, fluid arm movements and rhythmically controlled foot-stamping with percussive ankle bells. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z But she also produced a profound sense of Nordic Sibelian stillness on a warm, sunny San Diego Sunday. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The episode incorporates elements of a play, allowing for moments of stillness and even silence, she said, which is something frowned upon in traditional TV. Fate of Kate’s pregnancy is center stage on ‘This Is Us’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z On a recent Saturday, Abramović sat, impassive and barely moving, at her table, while across from her a visitor mimicked her stillness. Naked News: We're Still Prudes! Even at the Museum 2010-04-26T20:42:00Z Afterwards, he sleeps in completely clobbered stillness and leaves the next morning like a gentleman. Confessions of a menopausal nymphomaniac 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The idea of one beloved national treasure playing another may have seemed like obvious casting, but Hanks doesn’t look anything like Rogers, nor does he naturally inhabit the man’s essential, almost tortoise-like stillness. 'Everyone said: Don't ruin my childhood': director Marielle Heller on how her Mr Rogers film finally got made 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Almost as an afterthought, Sharp set up a little Sony hand-held recorder, hoping it might capture the essence of the frigid stillness where he often worked. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s harder to mix mindfulness and stillness than it sounds. ‘Most of us are too busy to be better’: the lazy person's guide to self-improvement 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Then she demonstrates how the dance thrives in the present — slow, quick, breathtakingly alive even in stillness. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s a lovely film to watch while at home during the pandemic, both for its transporting shots of the mountains and its charged depiction of stillness and anticipation. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z I learned that there was power in subtlety, stillness and tenderness.” A Big Belter Who Found a True Voice 2011-05-13T23:00:44Z In doing so, however, they hope to preserve the ineffable stillness of this golden walled island surrounded by the sand sea that is the Thar Desert, historically known as the Land of Death. India in One, Two or Three Weeks 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z But the image is one ethereal stillness, showing a delicately pockmarked surface of white and gray. A Man on an Eco-Mission in Mixed Media 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Gone are the frames and the meditative stillness viewers are used to in museums, replaced by huge images that transform to the music of artists as varied as Beethoven and Janis Joplin. Famous Paintings Go on Show, Without a Canvas in Sight 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Though the lion is posed in a moment of stillness, you sense in the beast’s bony and sinewy anatomy a terrific potential for action. Art Review: ‘Bernini: Sculpting in Clay’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-10-04T22:43:07Z In several, Watkins is shown as pale and brightly blue-eyed, with an air of quiet stillness. My Muse and me 2012-05-27T17:01:01Z She said she hoped the works captured her ennui, stillness, worry and fear — “a sense that illness could be close at hand.” Gillian Wearing Has Turned Masks Into an Art Form 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Just as Ms. Martin talks about the horizontal line, Mr. Ratmansky, with hypnotizing patterns and moments of stillness, choreographs not just bodies but vibrations that allow the stage to pulsate rhythmically and sculpturally. Review: Alexei Ratmansky Finds a New Voice at City Ballet 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z She left Acosta onstage for a brief solo, masterful for its stillness. Malpaso Dance brings its breezy, charming surprises from Cuba 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Her body arches with tension when she realises her annual holiday with Karen will be shared with Joe, and there is a great moment when, left alone, she stares at a table in rueful stillness. The Children's Hour - review 2011-02-10T00:54:20Z What is memorable is the stillness of the image and how harmoniously their bodies fit inside the frame. Movie Review: ‘Only the Young,’ by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims 2012-12-07T01:30:09Z It promises movement but maintains an overbearing stillness. Audio advent calendar: Villagers playlist 2010-12-09T13:56:00Z Gabe Fazio’s Simon the Zealot is one of these, occupying the witness stand with such intensity and stillness that the whole room shrinks to his little part of it. Review: For ‘Judas Iscariot,’ a Courtroom Drama of Epic Proportions 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Two days ago, during notes, I was suddenly aware of an unfamiliar stillness in air. Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Much has made about the stillness in your acting. From "Fargo" to "Dark Winds," Zahn McClarnon keeps perfecting his art – but don't call him an artist 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z It's studded with original detail, like the moment when, as they reach for some defining statement of longing, Nuñez places her hand over Pennefather's mouth, initiating a long, reverberant stillness. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Suddenly the stillness was punctured by a staccato tick-tick-ticking: the film in one of the cameras had come to the end of its reel and was flapping obnoxiously. John Krasinski and the Tense Wait for ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z The hall became an embryonic expanse of both ocean and sky, with all the stillness of sun-flooded watery depths. Mahler's 'Song of the Earth' and sky and sea, the L.A. Phil way 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z “In order to foster stillness and quiet, you’ve been automatically muted upon joining this meeting,” the worship host now announces at the virtual Brooklyn meeting each Sunday. Can You Gather With God Over Zoom? 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z As I looked and listened, the literal met the abstract to create a startling moment of stillness. ECM Album Covers by Manfred Eicher 2012-12-30T05:20:27Z Ms. Ferri’s new quality of pathos is matched by another new gift for expressive stillness. Review: At 53, an Effortless Return to Dance ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The roar of a propane torch broke the stillness. Telluride beyond the slopes: The Colorado town’s hidden assets by hot-air balloon 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The animated visual hubbub contrasts with and heightens the frozen stillness of the words. In Gary Simmons' hands, classic film titles ooze with racial history 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The components of Cage’s Quartet in Four Parts, a 20-minute piece that explores stillness and quietude, come from a set pool of short motifs, sonorities and modal-sounding chords that appear repeatedly. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z At the end, while the word “om” sounded, she moved seamlessly from one sustained position to another, finally achieving a stillness that seemed the perfect image of tranquil acceptance and meditation. An Odissi Dancer Contains Sublime Multitudes 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z She is often still, but her stillness is always a preparation, a display of brimming intensity. Dance Review: Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca ? Joyce Theater ? Review 2011-09-29T00:11:26Z But it is Hogg’s filmmaking — her narrative and stylistic choices, the precision of her framing, the stillness of her images and how she withholds information — that distinguishes “Souvenir” and her other movies. ‘The Souvenir Part II’ Review: Life, as She Imagines It 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Smiley is, of course, George Smiley, one of fiction's most famous spies, and played here with an uncanny stillness by Gary Oldman. 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' dark and alluring 2011-12-22T22:05:53Z The space is so white and so quiet that you’re instantly transported to a place of stillness. Melinda Ring’s ‘Forgetful Snow’ at the Kitchen 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z More herrings peek out of the purple knit gloves she wears, further enhancing the ritualistic stillness of the image. Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z While we might find pleasure in those rare and cherished moments of peace and quiet, when it comes to silence and stillness, can we muster up the self-restraint at all? Ssshhh! How the cult of quiet can change your life 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Confronted with Gad’s cyclone energy, he chose stillness. Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad Tackle Another Book (Not Mormon) 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The camera also feasts on this work’s occasional but haunting use of stillness — an exemplification of the Penseroso life of contemplation. Mark Morris’s Transcendent ‘Il Allegro,’ Captured on Film for PBS 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Transitional spaces, like entrances and exits, caught her interest and aligned with her continuing exploration of stillness. ‘Plastic,’ at MoMA, Is on the Floor and the Stairs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z I naturally applied that honing of everything into the moment, the stillness that you see. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Yet “Symphonics” is also marked by more stillness than any other ballet in the repertory: upright, statuesque, contemplative stillness. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z There are times when it explodes and it moves, and there are other times when there is a lot of air in it and stillness. Modern Dance, in Your Hand 2011-07-17T01:00:28Z His mobility contrasts with her stillness, her clarity with his bluster. Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater: A Midsummer Night’s Couple 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z In two sculptures and nine photographs, Ms. Isenstein opts for a new stillness, creating a remarkable emotional animation through the layering of colorful masks. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Onlookers couldn’t see what Ms. Diamond-Walker was looking at through the headset — the environment Ms. Bae had created — but her sudden stillness registered that she was enthralled. In the Dance Lab With Martha Graham 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Where the production gets more specific is in its departures from the libretto: its absence of caricature and villainy, its climactic dance of death instead a scene of stillness and life continuing in agony. Review: Two Sopranos Make an ‘Elektra’ Both Mythic and Human 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z I like the papery stillness of a library; the loud beckoning of one person on the second floor for another person who’s in the basement is pervasive in their house. Peace on Earth — and at home for the holidays 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Cheung, possessed of both bravura technique and telling stillness, radiates this inner tangle, which the interstitial musical numbers, done in Japanese with subtitles on designer Tesshi Nakagawa's dual perspective set, certainly demonstrate by default. In 'Takarazuka!!!,' coming of age in a blend of gender roles 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z A bored pregnant woman punctuates the stillness of her apartment by screaming at the top of her lungs as her husband, practicing golf nearby, inexplicably begins to bash a piece of furniture. The recession and its discontents in films by Cao Fei at the Mistake Room 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Those abstract paintings have a stillness that draws the viewer in with an almost meditative quality, often with soft colors and a three-dimensional look. Exploring a Transformational Period in Korean Art 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The stillness of the senior adviser was also mirrored by the reporters, who, after asking several initial questions, fell almost uniformly silent. The Surreal, Eternal Silence of Jared Kushner 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z There’s mischief in her eyes and smile, but she has a silent screen actress’s wistfulness and a gift for conveying an inner stillness that can suggest depths of melancholy. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z And an audience was frozen into the kind of stillness that no one dares interrupt, not even with a startled gasp. Review: A Harrowing Puppet Show, ‘Demolishing Everything With Amazing Speed’ 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z There’s talk and stillness here, true, but also plenty of fights, explosions and hardware. ‘Dune’ Review: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting Sands 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Eventually a stillness arrived and I opened my eyes to see number 15, huge and frightening, gaping at us. Short story: Message in a (Klein) Bottle by Russell Hoban 2012-07-19T16:04:37Z Set in the stylishly weathered Venice of today, Mr. Leiser and Mr. Caurier’s spare production manages the delicate balance of activity and stillness that is the crucial challenge of Rossini’s serious operas. Music Review: Cecila Bartoli in ?Otello,? at Zurich Opera House 2012-03-02T23:19:05Z His 95-minute exploration prefers to leapfrog across several dozen scintillating surfaces, though, rather than approaching the type of depth or stillness Lockwood seeks with her river recordings. ‘32 Sounds,’ a Film Performed Live, Probes the Power of Listening 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Though the capacity of the resort is about 400 guests and it was 98 percent full, according to Ms. Fletcher, all we felt was a stillness in the air. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Lucy looks down, up, and down again; the train, which we’ve seen moving in the soft-focus background behind her, is gone, leaving only an empty stillness. DVDs: In the Depression, a Couple Undone 2010-02-19T23:59:00Z The staging preserves that quality that helped set this musical apart on Broadway — emotional eloquence in stillness. Simplicity supplies emotional eloquence to pub musical 'Once' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Performed by New York City Ballet on Thursday at the David H. Koch Theater, “Opus 19” explores the virtuosity of stage presence, in which a male protagonist shifts between stillness and agitation. Dance Review: City Ballet Dances 3 Works Set to Violin Concertos 2014-02-14T22:37:35Z She stopped focusing on the scans, lasers and tubes, and turned to look at the stillness and familiarity around her. How I photographed my mother’s last days 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s a complexity that is relieved, from time to time, by brief interludes of peace, stillness, and beauty: Review | Matthew Zapruder’s ‘Father’s Day’ is firmly situated in our political moment 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z It was also notable for its use of stillness and silence; the absolute immobility required at various points from the thousands of troops, and from the members of the royal family marching behind the coffin. The Choreography of Public Mourning 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z I didn’t even hear a whisper break the stillness in the air. ‘How I Learned to Drive’ Review: Many Miles to Go Before a Reckoning 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z With ruthless efficiency and a dreamlike stillness, Stanfield took over corner after corner. Jamie Hector Wants That Black Belt 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The same stillness that arrests the eye while watching a film stops the swiping finger on Instagram. When Life Looks Like a Wes Anderson Movie 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z As she infiltrates the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio, recording bands and random conversations, her physical stillness and intense vibe grow increasingly unsettling. ‘Poser’ Review: Fade Into You 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Slide whistles and unusual percussion evoke eerie, slippery nocturnal stillness. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Strauss Humblebrag 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z And at night you can't bear to hear your own breath unaccompanied by another and underneath the big stillness like a score is the roaring of the cataract of everything being and being torn away. Peter Heller's 'Dog Stars': Isolation haunts narrator after epidemic 2012-08-09T20:22:03Z There are moments, as Kenneth MacMillan demonstrated with such eloquence in his own 1965 version of the ballet, when a look or a limpid stillness conveys more than an ornate flurry of steps. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z And it's true that few moments of stillness in To the Wonder come in that scene with the herd, on the prairie. Rachel McAdams: 'With a Terrence Malick film there will be no shortage of beauty and surprise' 2013-02-14T19:00:00Z I had imagined “Habeas Corpus” as a work of silent witness, deriving its power from live streaming, technology, and stillness—a work of equally balanced presence and absence. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The growing popularity of slower-paced dramas on television has given rise to a whole new form of acting: roiling stillness. Actress Ann Dowd is a revelation away from the ensemble pack 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The sudden stillness when the voice of a great speaker rings out. When politicians really spoke in sound bites 2012-10-02T18:53:00Z It’s as unfussy as it is lovely, a reminder that the human form is as powerful in stillness as it is in unbridled motion. Darrell Grand Moultrie brings ‘Vessels’ to Harman Center for the Arts It was dark in the early morning stillness and I felt my grasp on her disappear as quickly as the twinkling lights of her plane faded in the distance. Three Musical Notes, 1,848 Miles and a Lifetime of Memories 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z |
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