motionlessness

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• We know from fMRI studies that a consistent wiggle of a finger or blinking “yes” at the right questions may reveal an internal life inside a largely motionless body.

• By then, Floyd was motionless, unconscious and reportedly had no pulse.

• In the first, called quiet sleep, the octopuses are pale and motionless with the pupils of their eyes narrowed to slits.

• She hung up the phone and stood motionless for just a moment.

• The chair keeps moving constantly, and with your eyes shut, you think you’re motionless.

• He fell 40 feet and fractured his skull, hip, and nose, and lay there motionless.

• He remained motionless in the next shot but the fear of what was to follow was etched on his face.

• “He immediately dropped to the ground in front of the door where he remained motionless,” the criminal complaint says.

• Surrounded by family and friends, he sat shirtless and motionless leaning forward in a chair on the dirt in front of his hut.

• I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th Avenue in lower Manhattan.

• A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.

• When he was gone, Isaacson stood by the mantel-piece for nearly five minutes, thinking and motionless.

• Motionless she stood, straining eye and ear; she could hear nothing, but the gestures told much.

• The leaves were motionless, the river crept past without a murmur, the dark hills rose out of the distant desert like a wave.