Sentences with phrase «sitting motionless»

The artist often painted his friends standing or sitting motionless in their homes or in his studio.

Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption — Hands - on Preview Sitting motionless and hunched beneath a cobweb - riddled tree, Adam the Knight casts a dreary silhouette, here, at the end of all things.

Late one afternoon I was sitting motionless after the final bell, trying to recover from another day, recounting the horrors, clinging to the few fond memories, and counting it a success because I had survived to count it at all.

Instead, we've got this description from IGN: «The footage opens with a young woman sitting motionless in a chair, limbs a bit askew.

Stunned by the sudden death of his wife, the bereaved husband spends the better part of the day sitting motionless in a chair trying to grasp his new reality.

It is sitting motionless in the water with its tentacles retracted.

MARCH 1959 DARWIN»S MISSING EVIDENCE «Less than a century ago moths of certain species were characterized by their light coloration, which matched such backgrounds as light tree trunks and lichen - covered rocks, on which the moths passed the daylight hours sitting motionless.

He's spent whole days in this and other wetlands of Dutchess County, sitting motionless in a canoe or on the bank.

Similarly, birds from the genus Nyctibius, with bark - colored plumage, masquerade as tree stumps by sitting motionless during the day.

Bird - dung crab spiders spend a lot of time sitting motionless on leaves, using their gross looks to attract flies for dinner.

Even an eight - hour flight can cause life - threatening blood clots; five days of sitting motionless could be a killer.

It starts with Arsene Wenger sitting motionless on the bench, but these so called professional footballers need to have a good hard look at themselves.

For the first three months he had to sit motionless in a chair while his vertebra began to heal.

The bumper cars sat motionless, like hibernating beetles.

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.

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

From the moon's viewpoint, Earth doesn't sit motionless but moves around within a small patch of sky.

The unaltered mouse sits motionless against the wall, instinctively avoiding open spaces where winged predators could strike from above.

Earlier evidence for the quasiparticles was found in one - dimensional nanowires, in which a Majorana fermion sat motionless at each end of the wire, like a particle bound to a particular spot within a material.

To put this in more practical terms, if you were to sit while fidgeting all day, you would burn about 600 more calories than if you sat motionless all day.

As the 18 - year - old Ogden man sat motionless, a crimson drop worked a slow path from his forehead, past his closing right eye, toward his jaw.

Because the girl's thoughts were somewhere else, she was holding so still that even the lizard sat motionless on the moss - grown rock, on which the girl lay half leaning, half stretched out on her stomach.

The four of us children sat motionless in the back.

Many have simply given up, and sit motionless amid the fields as corroding reminders of the glory days of gushers and wildcatters and instant fortunes.

Ten feet away, a 3 - foot alligator sits motionless as an egret lands on a post, then hops to another.It is a tiny, thriving ecosystem, but it is not a natural one.

We sat motionless, watching the huge black fins rise up and then plunge beneath the glassy surface.

Eventually, his geometric stage set softens and the canvas is inhabited by the artist's intimates, who stand or sit motionless, usually in pairs, in their homes or in his studio.

In «Magnolias for Pittsburg,» a pair of hyperreal faux magnolia trees sit motionless and forever in bloom as the world passes from season to season.

A wave of panic hit as she rushed to the bathroom, vomited, and sat motionless in shock for what felt like an eternity.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

Like those little lizards they sat utterly motionless.

A cylindrical water tank with a small solar panel and a skyward - facing antenna sits unobtrusively in the nearly motionless landscape.

Sitting at the computer, we hunch over the keyboard, shoulders at our ears, motionless.

Third, the number of calories you burn sitting while fidgeting is higher than the number of calories you burn standing motionless.

It's strange how the graphics are so poor in all poker games when they only have to make a bunch of people sitting around a table, relatively motionless.

Kids may still enjoy it, though, purely as a sensory overload — though the ones at a recent screening mostly sat mute and motionless.

There's a split second when you start to think you may have to stand up and jump off in order to progress to the next stage of the simulation — and this is where you decide to sit there, motionless, in an obstinate hope that you won't have to actually do that to yourself — before you're suddenly flung back through the expanse of the city and onto a train track.

What stopped me was the sight of more than 200 middle schoolers sitting in silence, eyes closed, nearly motionless, meditating together for 15 uninterrupted minutes.

I sat there motionless, unsure what to do, and keenly aware of everyone else around me.

There we sat, motionless, blocking four lanes of traffic directly in front of the home terminal.

During sleep or when sitting nearly motionless, the numbers would be in line with reality.

It feels like they all still think they need to fight the battle against the golf cart perception, and that's why all these new «Tesla - killer» electric cars are shouting about having 1000 HP and 0 - 60 times under 3 seconds instead of numbers that actually matter, like range and charging time and how many charging stations there are and how many years their battery packs will last before you're stuck with a motionless, wheeled sitting room in your driveway.

After Android has detected that the device has been laying flat and motionless for a period of time (sitting on a table, for instance), Doze Mode kicks in and ensures that no nonessential apps request a wakelock (see below) or sync in the background, which would otherwise drain the battery in a situation where the user is obviously not actively using their device.