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- noun Plural form of
stillness .
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I think one could justifiably call the Etudes 13 variations on freedom -- explosive torrents of power giving way to lyrical stillnesses that have their own virtuosity.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011
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I think one could justifiably call the Etudes 13 variations on freedom -- explosive torrents of power giving way to lyrical stillnesses that have their own virtuosity.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011
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I think one could justifiably call the Etudes 13 variations on freedom -- explosive torrents of power giving way to lyrical stillnesses that have their own virtuosity.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011
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I think one could justifiably call the Etudes 13 variations on freedom -- explosive torrents of power giving way to lyrical stillnesses that have their own virtuosity.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011
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But Mono's last studio album, 2009's "Hymn to the Immortal Wind," featured an orchestra, creating a different sort of intensity with Mr. Goto at the eye of stirring storms and sudden stillnesses.
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The speaker of these poems is poised between the twin stillnesses of birth and death, gazing at them simultaneously as often as the poet can stand it.
THE LONG LOST STARTLE by JOEL TOLEDO EILEEN 2009
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The speaker of these poems is poised between the twin stillnesses of birth and death, gazing at them simultaneously as often as the poet can stand it.
Archive 2009-12-01 EILEEN 2009
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Set to a mix of string compositions by Steve Reich and Ryoji Ikeda -- which provide as much humming atmosphere as subtle rhythms -- Mr. Lee's actions, couplings and stillnesses present his golden-looking cast in sculptural moves and groupings that are striking in their decorative appeal.
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Taken frequently, 10 second stillnesses can bring a calm to your whole day.
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These two photographers are not unalike in terms of their interest in representing vast spaces, stillnesses, the pomp of abscence, not to mention their lineage.
Elger Esser, Sonnabend and the Dussledorf School Lemon Hound 2009
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