Word: staticity
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...economy on a full war footing-all unpleasant options in an election year. Withholding the troops, on the other hand, could force the U.S. to abandon for good the tactics of flexibility and mobility that long kept the enemy off balance, and shift instead to a static, enclave-style stance...
Frederick Ewers' set achieves a nice delineation of the kitchen "cavern" below and the town house above, though the upper story is a bit cramped and leads to some rather static scenes. --LEE H. SIMOWITZ
...materials, not the other way around." His Manhattan studio has been redone five times in ten years as he shifted from bronze to steel and plastic constructions and finally to polyester resin. One of his recent plastic pieces is Five Inverted Pyramids, a work that gleams with static tension; it confines the eye with its precise geometry, while at the same time allowing it to penetrate luxuriously into the center of the form...
...bare stage against a stark background. But where the Balanchine ballet suggested the physics lab, the permutations of Ceremony smacked of the Kama Sutra in slow motion, as the dancers' bodies were juxtaposed in a complex series of stately tableaux. The maneuvers, however, were less sensual than static-and, accompanied as they were by a chilling, unromantic score, seemed as moving as a set of judo diagrams...
Although diffused sunlight may have obscured the beams from East Coast stations, the two Western beams were recorded by Surveyor's camera. To make certain that the dots were indeed Alley's lasers and not transmission static, scientists turned the beams on and off, while Surveyor snapped away. On the sequence of Surveyor shots that resulted, the dots obediently appeared and disappeared...