Word: motionlessness
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...George Sommes, as Job, uses a trained voice, feeling gesture, and deeply thoughtful modulations, to bring subtle variety of mood and thought into an almost motionless stage-picture. Scene follows scene with scarcely a change of position, each motion of arm or body being made to serve for deepest significance. The three misunderstanding friends, and Eilhu too, are individualized and play their parts each in perfect key; this must be, or the play would never carry. The lighting, mechanically perfect, seems to grow from the characters themselves, shifting with their mood, and always throwing the picture into the most appropriate...
...scrambled up again, and found the cave by this time safe for entrance. I went in, and when my eyes had become accustomed, to the darkness, they were met with an astonishing sight. Standing in the centre of the spacious rockchamber were five motionless figures, hooded and masked, and shrouded from head to foot in startling pink garments. (Pink was the color of purity among the ancient Incas, doubtless because it is the color most rarely found in nature.) Kneeling at the feet of each of these standing figures, but clad in less distinctive garments, were other figures...
...genius and a superman. "I saw him once as perhaps no one has ever seen him. He was sitting with his head on his hands, the wind blowing the silvery hairs of his beard through his fingers; he was looking into the distance out to sea. . . . In the musing motionless of the old man I felt something fateful, magical, something which went down into the darkness beneath him and stretched up like a search light into the blue emptiness above the earth...
...stability is to be found in change itself. This means that we must reverse the current conception of what is stable and what is changing. We erroneously consider movement as more complicated than immobility. On the contrary every immobility is due to two simultaneous movements. The table appears motionless to one only because one moves with it. Movement, however, is indivisible. Movement, or change, then, is the sought for stability, and thus we reach the conception of the individual life as a stable reality. It is an indivisible movement of which our attention perceives certain stages. The brain...
...like Massachusetts and the temperature without is but a little above zero, the warmth of the room is hardly suitable for an examination, even if the windows are not open. Besides, the cold seems much more severe to a man who is sitting on a hard bench, cramped and motionless, than it does to another man who has the opportunity of walking about and thus preventing his limbs from becoming stiff with the cold. It is all very well for a proctor to walk up and down and criticise the action of men who turn up their coat-collars...