I couldn't explain the momentary stillness inside of me, or the rush of nameless emotions that followed. |
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The waters of Loch an Eilean were flat calm and the stillness of the air almost eerie. |
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A chorus of high-pitched wolf howls pierces the stillness of a frigid January morning. |
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This metaphor represents the miracle of creation, bringing the world into being as a multiplicity out of the stillness of an unstirred sleep. |
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About half an hour later we had another quiet dinner, the soft clank of utensils the only sound in the stillness. |
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A horrible yowling sound rent the air, a cacophony of dissonant notes in the cool morning stillness. |
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Leaving his horse he walked around the perimeter, the grind of his boots on gravel and grass the only sound in the evening stillness. |
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The bell chimed out, its sharp sound a contrast to the stillness as the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat rolled in the gentle swell. |
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The Olympic stadium follows a rise-and-fall pattern of stillness and intense activity. |
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If you are outside when it starts playing you stop everything and show obeisance in your stillness. |
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Then you wait for a few moments, silently marvelling at the beautiful starry night and the almost magical stillness. |
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The songs, which are settings of John Clare, deal with stillness, and supernally dazzling summers. |
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Sometimes at the close of day, when the lights have been dimmed, I sit in the stillness. |
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Walking up the gravel path feels like the approach to some kind of altar, the scrunching stones disturbing in the stillness. |
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His carefully balanced compositions often create an island of stillness, a moment of revelatory quiet amid the modern churnings. |
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They prefer a mongrel vitality to a purebred stillness, a jumbled collage to a more settled composition. |
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A gentle and lyrical andantino in triple time with a lilting rhythm and an emotional central section ended intimately, in stillness. |
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A leaden stillness descended and slowed their legs, but sight traveled in reverse and was quickened. |
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But the most important thing really is to quiet your internal dialogue and experience the stillness that's in you. |
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All of a sudden, the stillness of the air was torn by the loud, shrill sound of a klaxon wailing at high pitch. |
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The trees were rimed with frost and there was a stillness over the land that only came with extreme cold. |
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What he remembers most was the stillness of the dressing-room and, later, the cheerless evening he spent at his hotel in Newport. |
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For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. |
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Key experiences afterwards are degrees of intense inner stillness and to a lesser extent joy in simply being. |
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The organic roughness of his shaky tones periodically overwhelms and drowns out the impassive stillness of his collaborator. |
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For all its piteousness, his first feature is often moving, always well acted, and distinguished by rare stillness and beauty. |
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They desire a stillness and immobility they can never attain, for the activity of the world never ceases. |
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The stillness was abruptly shattered by a loud alarm call from a sambar deer. |
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Electronics and haunting effects bring an empyrean stillness to the album's middle third. |
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The stillness and quiet of the night made the place seem almost reverent, as if something long ago had happened here. |
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Scraping the ice off their cars, they travel along deserted roads, through the eerie, wintry stillness. |
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Like a ballet dancer on pointe, stillness is part of the lead up to falling. |
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Her very immobility, her stillness in a world running after vanity, makes her a heroine. |
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A cocoon of silence and stillness surrounded them as the sleigh cut thorough the snow. |
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He was frightened to move unless he disturbed the stillness, unless he shattered its delicate fragility. |
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The stillness of the scene was suddenly disrupted when a scrawny dog ran into view. |
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The eerie stillness of the music and voice reflects the pensive, self-critical nature of the lyric. |
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What the ex-policeman takes for boredom, though, is the stillness of a serpent as its cloven tongue tastes the scent in the breeze. |
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Any living thing which brought life and movement to stir the sullen stillness of it all would be silenced. |
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The wild, syncopated patterns of the surrounding painting become giant frames which counterpoint the stillness of the images. |
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In my memory there is a stillness, a quietness about her that I can still feel, that is almost visible, even in the distance of many years. |
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One of the beauties of English is that it has available a practice which seems to conflate movement and stillness, unfolding and accomplishment. |
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I remember waking to fresh falls of snow, the muffled stillness, and the sense of a world transformed. |
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The more we can restore innate natural poise the more we can enjoy physical harmony in activity, and in stillness. |
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In that stillness, the vastness of the energy touched deep seeds of consciousness in them as they trusted me with their confidences and secrets. |
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When the small human cast disappears for the afternoon siesta, all is stillness and peace. |
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Occasionally I come across someone who has an extraordinary inner serenity, a real stillness and peacefulness. |
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Then there came a moment, I believe it was in the dead of night, and in the blessed stillness I found solace. |
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Permanently in motion, he seemed to fear what he might discover in the calm stillness of introspection. |
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After the artist's eerily long period of absolute stillness, an assistant unburies him with urgent, rescuelike speed and efficiency. |
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Boisterous crowds dispelled the darkness of night with fireworks as crackers shattered the stillness of the night. |
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A sudden blast of discordant horns shattered the stillness that had settled over the killing fields. |
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He rolled over completely, pressed his face into the soft pillow, and allowed the stillness of sleep to take over. |
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Here one could relish plateaus of stillness before the onset of bristling counterpoint and passagework in the finale. |
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Perhaps he's still less at home with movement than he is with stillness. |
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Instead, it surely refers to a state of total stillness and even abnegation, an ideal that religious adepts of all disciplines have long aspired to. |
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The stillness and the quietness of the house is excruciating. |
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Until the threshold of 270 was crossed, the stillness of the clammy night continued to hang over the city. |
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There is a stillness in the early hours that feels to me the clearest, healthiest drug humanly available. |
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A metallic roar cuts through the stillness, and out of the murk further up the valley a gigantic shape rears, an uprooted sapling clutched in its metal talons. |
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Both the horse and the hawk are unruly, the latter swirling its head around instead of waiting in obedient stillness, and the dogs have curiously rounded leonine heads. |
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From the height of urban iniquity we move to the ultimate city stillness. |
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They gather and sleep in open fields, surrounded by nature and the stillness of the night. |
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The problem is that many of us cannot find this place of inner peace and stillness, and so the sacred is lost in an overwhelming avalanche of noise and confusion. |
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The catacombs, and the lovingly tended graves within, have embalmed the lives and loves of centuries past in a deathly stillness, broken only by the babble of a passing brook. |
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Another voice rang out, startlingly loud in the tense stillness. |
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It pauses the careening jumble of events to carve out moments of stillness. |
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It is by this repeated practice that one becomes more accustomed to the subtle mechanics of the mind and more familiar and intimate with the experience of stillness. |
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Slowly I progress on my downward spiral, but am saved from sinking completely into the mire of self-recrimination by the jolting reality of sudden stillness. |
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Finally, the woman broke the stillness as the edges of the cloak parted. |
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Dressed in his gray suit, he sat in stillness as the noxious fumes billowed into the cabin of his blue Chevy Chevelle. |
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The sea itself seemed to resist clarity as much as complete stillness, as though its heart were restless, unquiet, pitted by its very nature against all that was unchanging. |
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In the stillness we could hear goats browsing under the stripped vines. |
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From moments of calm and almost stillness, there is a wonderful male glee in horsing around, pushing, shoving, improvising with arms, hands, positions and timing. |
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She has a very quiet voice, and it was only due to the extreme stillness of the night combined with the fact that she was mewing without cease that I heard her at all. |
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It has pairs of large moody mandalas on each wall that loom and seem to spin, exuding a strong energy that creates an extraordinary zone of centeredness, stillness and power. |
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Think of the bird chatter at sunrise, of the stillness at high noon. |
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His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth. |
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Streets that seem like collages brought to life, full of strange incongruities that could only seem natural in the sedatory stillness of the suburb. |
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This general trajectory of life moves from the fluidity and possibility associated with birth to the stillness and finality of death and ancestorhood. |
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Warren can do stillness, tension, passion, intensity and sentimentality. |
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And outside only a bird's mournful cry broke the stillness of the timeless, winding country lanes and mile upon rolling mile of flat farm land fringed by the sea. |
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In the depth of the forest the primeval stillness was a bit awesome until a family of wild piglets moved in and started to root reassuringly through the chestnuts at my feet. |
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Its precise pacing, composition and camera movement and the minimalist yet powerful soundtrack reverberates and emanates a mood of incredible mystery and stillness. |
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By the time she reaches the famous signature song, she is dressed in an elegant evening gown and her girlish energy has become the stillness of despair and bitterness. |
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Adam threw away the dregs of his coffee and turned back to the house as the sound of Joseph's laugh trickled like sweet music through the stillness. |
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In the beginning, when we entered the room for the first morning sit, we might sense the utter stillness of the place, before dropping into our habitual world of thoughts. |
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In the stillness, a movement at the end of her bed commands her attention. |
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Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness. |
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The Kinematograph lends the observed objects the agitation of their movement, the stillness of the gaze seems more important. |
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The soft sounds of retching filtered back into the black stillness. |
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Then in a moment of stillness, I slide off my high horse into an entrechat six, feeling ebullient. |
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A digital detox is a dedicated time each day where we disconnect from technology and indulge in the stillness that follows. |
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Early morning out on the patio, a hummingbird dodges between vigas, the buzzing beat of its wings the only sound to break the stillness. |
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Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts. |
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But in his stillness he has become the god he always wanted to be. |
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Walk the pontoon bridge across the crystal clear Cahow Lake and enjoy the otherworldly stillness. |
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Unlike his other works, such as his portraits which represent the stillness of his subject, these collages show the movement of his subjects. |
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Moss is thought to add a sense of calm, age, and stillness to a garden scene. |
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It is a stillness or solitude that is wordlessness before God. |
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In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts. |
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A sudden stillness came on them both, a sense of something momentous that must happen. Flory reached across and took her other hand. It came yieldingly, willingly. |
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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Writing poetry requires inner stillness. |
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Rui Horta's Container saw the six-strong cast interchanging mad dashes with stillness, group dynamics with isolation and tenderness with confrontation. |
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They sat in the shade of the pole and brush ramada in front of the place and sipped their drinks and looked out at the desolate stillness of the little crossroads at noon. |
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But the stillness of Arbus's still reins in the movingness of the movie, bringing it back to earth, to the pensiveness and the irremediable pastness of the photograph. |
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