Word: motionlessness
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...blocks away from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., a slight, bespectacled, gray-haired man sits motionless in a reclining chair in his study, staring vacantly into space. Paul MacCready is engaged in his most productive activity, daydreaming...
Afanador began his project believing that people who are comatose remained completely motionless. "But while I was doing the picture that is now on the cover," he says, "Christine Busalacchi opened her eyes and seemed to smile at me. It had a dramatic effect on me, but it didn't change my attitude about allowing these patients...
Many ambulances and helicopters were at the scene, where bloodied victims were lined up on stretchers. Some passengers were seen lying motionless. Others, including children, were conscious and apparently not seriously hurt as they were helped from the wreckage...
...pilot put his machine into a half roll and knew that he was mine. Automatically, I kicked the rudder to the left to get him at right angles, turned the gun-button to FIRE and let go in a 4- sec. burst . . . He seemed to hang motionless; then a jet of red flame shot upward, and he spun out of sight . . . My first emotion was one of satisfaction . . . He was dead, and I was alive; it could so easily have been the other way around...
...encountered the corpses of horses everywhere. Poor horses, big defenseless animals that don't know how to hide. They stand motionless, waiting for death. It was always the corpses of horses -- black, bay, pied, chestnut -- lying upside down with the legs pointing into the air, their hooves admonishing the world. It was as if it were a war not between people but between horses, as if they were the only victims of the strife...