Sentences with phrase «of motionless»

This is a true contemporary still - life, with a tremendous duality of form which fixes our attention like a pair of motionless dancers.

Then long, timeless pauses of motionless gazing, observing those strange after - image and after - actions, re-enacting what has just happened and beginning the process of making judgement on how to continue, all the while watching the paint drying and hoping it will still look as good as it did in the tin.

The performance, of the French artist Yves Klein's «Monotone - Silence Symphony,» a work he conceived in the late 1940s consisting of 20 minutes of unchanging sound followed by 20 minutes of motionless silence, drew a rapt and mostly reverent crowd on Wednesday night.

As such, Untitled, «is a constant effort to remember each step of the process of moving through life... each painting is in one way or another a souvenir of a motionless journey across the land of memory» (Francesco Bonami, Rudolf Stingel, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2011, p. 8).

The behavioral dependency also seems to vary by species: in cats and rabbits, theta is often observed during states of motionless alertness.

MK: Negative energy is energy below the vacuum state, or the state of motionless nothing.

The illness was later renamed progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) to describe the weakness or paralysis (palsy) patients develop when brain areas that control eye movements are affected by the syndrome — which produces the classic symptom of motionless eyes described by Dickens.

The next it was flying past the right ear of the motionless David Ospina into the Arsenal net.

This is what she calls «causation in a Zeno universe,» referring to the paradox of the moving arrow which is simply an infinite series of motionless instants.

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Frayne stood motionless in front of the Sharks, wearing a wide, toothy grin as they repeatedly interrupted one another's pitches to offer a better deal.

After a median four years of post-study follow - up, those in the least sedentary quartile (sitting a mean 649 minutes a day in typically 6.5 - minute bouts) had a dramatically lower rate of death from all causes than those in the most sedentary group (835 minutes at rest, in periods of relative motionless averaging just under 20 minutes each).

Sugar - coat it all you like, AE, but the point is that Galileo was found «vehemently suspect of heresy», namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture.

The Church is always in the flux of history, not on the motionless bank, but in this movement God's eternity is present with it, his life, his truth and his fidelity.

Galileo was found «vehemently suspect of heresy», namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the center of the universe, that the Earth is not at its center and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture.

In fact, millions of people have been wrong about many things: that the Earth is flat and motionless, for example, and that the stars are lights shining through holes in the sky.

For instance, a person can move a considerable distance in a tenth of a second — where is the motionless conscious superject that came into being here, when the body is now there?

In the Symposium, Plato depicts Socrates so caught up in wonder that he remains motionless in the midst of the commotion of everyday life; in the Hippias Major and the Hippias Minor, Socrates describes himself as suffering from a kind of seizure brought on by perplexity.

Another section of the sentence of Galileo:» Whereas you, Galileo,... were denounced to this Holy Office in 1615 for holding as true the false doctrine taught by some that the sun is the center of the world and motionless and the earth moves even with diurnal motion;»

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.»

From this the impossibility of building motion from the motionless positions, and durations from the durationless instants, followed naturally.

Literally just a bunch of people standing motionless shooting large BB guns for like an hour.

We see nothing — only the motionless soaring of red - tailed hawks in the canyon far below.

Plant life wished to continue its motionless sleep next to stagnant waters, but the Cry leaped up within it and violently shook its roots: «Away, let go of the earth, walk!»

Others lie depressed and motionless on the ground all day, their intelligent, social minds broken by the misery of confinement.

This time he signed his card, was motionless for a second, then threw the pencil to the ground — a fleeting public trace of deep disappointment that was immediately replaced by his usual semismile.

The fish were nearly choking the stream, motionless except for an errant flip of tail to maintain position.

But her motionless pose will contrast starkly with what sports have become for women in much of the rest of the world, where unfettered female movement constitutes a social movement in the same larger, transformative sense that the Olympics themselves claim to be.

It was frustrating to concede with less than ten minutes to go, but you couldn't help but wow at the finish from the Ivorian, who struck it first time from the edge of the box leaving the Arsenal shot - stopper motionless.

I am sick of watching this man, trotting up and down the pitch, only able to watch as Kos and others are busting their guts making last ditch tackles, or throwing their bodies around to cover shots as he stands motionless pointing his finger at God knows what.

Wenger, again, amorphe and motionless most of the game, not surprised he is not a tactical manager.

His head and left shoulder take all the weight of both players, and he lies motionless on the ground for a while before getting driven off the field on a cart.

Its part of the reason the fans at the Emirates are so motionless because only a certain class of people can afford ticket prices like that.

«When you see Lester Piggott, one of the world's greatest jockeys, going down in the Breeders» Cup and lying there motionless, it puts the fear of God into you.

He lies motionless on the ground for a bit and is taken to the locker room and ruled out of the game with a head injury.

I am conscious of the magic of nature when a chattering squirrel hops within feet of where I wait motionless, or I glimpse the silent, almost imperceptible movement of a young deer tiptoeing through the woods.

Musial played the entire game and afterward he sat almost motionless for 20 minutes in front of his locker, half out of his uniform, sipping a paper cup of beer.

At one wreck the same mutton snapper, 10 pounds of mute and stupid curiosity, hangs motionless day after day, watching over his shoulder.

The 29 - year - old spotted the motionless vehicle and stopped to aid the distressed husband and wife stranded in the middle of the road.

However, small children should not be motionless in the same position for long periods of time.

Any child's ideal sleep environment will be flat and motionless — in other words, the opposite of naps in the car.

I encourage motionless sleep because vibration or motion during sleep can force the brain to stay in a lighter sleep state and reduce the restorative power of sleep.

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

Later that night, Cannon's condition had deteriorated to the point where he lay nearly motionless on the floor of an infirmary cell with foam oozing from his mouth.

The presiding pastor of the Ona - Iye branch of Christ Apostolic Church, Wale Fagbere, who was reportedly found motionless in a shrine at Ketu community, Ayetoro, in the Yewa North area of Ogun State, has denied being struck by idols while destroying the shrine.

The presiding pastor of the Ona - Iye branch of Christ Apostolic Church, Wale Fagbere, who was reportedly found motionless in a shrine at Ketu community, Ayetoro, in...

In a statement, DA Cy Vance said, «Devin Brown is accused of brutally attacked a 61 - year - old woman while she was walking alone on the Lower East Side, without any apparent provocation... The details of this senseless attack are truly shocking — the defendant is accused of continuing to assault the victim as she lay motionless on the ground.»

In the second century A.D., he worked out the math for explaining the movements of heavenly bodies, assuming the Earth sat motionless in the center of the universe.

At the time, it was an inert chunk of ice, dust and frozen gases, floating nearly motionless in the outermost region of the solar system, a thousand times more distant than Pluto.

Aristotle later argued that Earth sat motionless at the center of the universe, encircled by the sun and planets.

The first photon slips into a cloud of rubidium atoms, which were chosen because they can easily be cooled to the extreme point at which they are nearly motionless.