Word: motionlessness
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Bogart Jackson saw the Husband kneeling in the grass, motionless in deference to the golfers on the tee. He had always been polite. Bogart Jackson took aim, and brought his club back slowly, his eye on the ball...
...better. You remember the last Game at Yale, when your roomate rolled out of the car and onto the streets of New Haven dead drunk, stone cold, motionless. And even he, with a minimum of encouragement and pre-happy hour briefing, managed to find a few fun spots. You can do it if you try hard enough, even if most of your Yale friends have found an excuse for risking death by spending their Friday and Saturday nights in Beinecke...
...camera sees gray clouds, a churning gray sea, the spray-lashed stones of a harbor breakwater, and at the breakwater's end, facing seaward, the cloaked and motionless figure of a woman. A storm is blowing up. There is danger. A passerby, a tall, mustached young man, makes his way out along the breakwater to warn the solitary watcher. Over the rising wind he calls out to her that she is not safe. Now the mysterious figure turns, plucks aside the rough cloth of her hood and stares at the man, or through him, for a few moments. Then...
More than 750 students, parents, and alumni sat motionless in the silence of Sanders Theater as Helen M. Caldicott, an instructor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, described the horrors of nuclear war and the "psychic numbing" politicians and military leaders rely on to portray nuclear armament as necessary and moral...
...loses all its verve as the director has his actors take long. Thoughtful pauses between too many lines. He dilutes the strength of many of the songs by having them performed like dirges. When the company joins together for a song. Bundy has them scattered around the stage, standing motionless like figures in Madame Trousseau's, staring out at the audience and singing in low. Steady voices. In their dry, funeral quality, the group songs recall the opening...