The phrase
"absolute stillness" means complete and total absence of any movement or sound.
Full definition
«It's the perfect getaway for couples seeking a soul - healing retreat
of absolute stillness, interrupted only by the splash of bird wings lighting upon the water.»
As she showed in her breakout role in «The Witch» as well as in «Morgan,» Taylor - Joy can be chilling
in absolute stillness with her wide, almond eyes — as much as McAvoy is in his showiness.
A bronze bust of Romilly John, infant son of the bohemian painter Augustus John, stands in
absolute stillness on a plinth in the centre of a room, beneath white globe lamps, catching the filtered daylight coming in from Whitechapel High Street.
The Academician can capture a sense
of absolute stillness — a full moon at sunrise over a flat sandy spit — as easily as a one of tumult, such as a high tide engulfing a beach.
It's a theme, then, an existential rumination about what it is that constitutes existence;
the absolute stillness at the centre of all that smoke and cacophony is as close to peace as some men can attain.
A sense of exhilaration emanates from these works; there's a contradiction between movement and stillness, between the flowing effluence of the paint and
the absolute stillness of the paintings within their fixed rectangular frames.
The air seems magically suspended in a state of
absolute stillness and quiet.