Sentences with phrase «motionless moment»

After a motionless moment of disbelief, the girl's eyes widened as she gasped and then giggled.

Even if matter never quite reaches the horizon, as in Mersini - Houghton's theory, time could be stretched so drastically that a sudden rebound or explosion (from the collapsing object's perspective) might look like a single, motionless moment (from ours).

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Among other things, the study identified 15 moments when the audience experienced the fight - or - flight response (as determined by a specific heart - rate pattern) and 4,716 seconds during which viewers were motionless, signaling peak filmgoer engagement.

In truth, the roots of this becomingless view go as far back as Zeno of Elea, who was probably the first who treated time and motion as a static geometrical line: his view that the allegedly flying arrow is motionless in all points of its trajectory has an obvious affinity with the strange view of some of our contemporaries according to which successive moments exist «tenselessly» on the fourth dimension called «time.»

According to MLB.com, he laid on the ground motionless for several moments before eventually walking off the field under his own power.

Our excitement mounted as we watched them pause, move restlessly for a moment, then stand motionless in the midday sun.

It's an astonishingly physical production; the only moment of stillness is as the audience enter, when the actors stand motionless, heads bowed.

There's a sort of «steady hands» feature that tasks the player with keeping the controller completely motionless during certain moments.

If I were sculpting him at this moment, I would carve a praying mantis, crouching motionless, seeming to pray, while actually waiting to strike.

The current was weakening towards slack — the moment between tides when the sea becomes motionless and kelp bulbs expose themselves to the calm pewter surface of Puget Sound.