stillness

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Recent Examples of stillness Your energy draws inward, craving the stillness of your inner sanctuary. Usa Today, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025 The finale opens in the stillness that follows, grief hardening into vengeance. Jp Mangalindan, Time, 24 Oct. 2025 Adolpho Veloso’s cinematography evokes the stillness and grace of Terrence Malick, while Bryce Dessner’s original score — featuring contributions from Nick Cave on the titular song — stitches together the film’s spiritual undercurrent. Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025 There were no good lines at the end here, just a long stillness, nights and days of it. Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 The director Kelly Reichardt encourages stillness. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025 After days spent exploring coral reefs and rainforests, Mango House offered a gentler kind of immersion — into stillness. Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025 This canyon country stillness is under attack. Stephen Trimble, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025 But eventually the champagne bubbles go flat, the applause fades, and the stillness that follows can feel louder than fame. Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stillness
Noun
  • From Jason Voorhees terrorizing all visitors of Camp Crystal Lake to Michael Myers persistently haunting the inhabitants of Haddonfield, Illinois, horror movies have relied on the silence and mystique of their main antagonists for decades.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Yet when biological men win women’s titles, scholarships, and opportunities, silence is demanded in the name of inclusion.
    Amy Reichert, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This one strikes a mid-century chord with its wide face and retro time display, with an atomic dial and silent-sweep movement to maximize quietness.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But, unsurprisingly, his favorite aspect of the place is its profound quietness.
    Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For Black women travelers seeking moments of serenity and wonder, this experience offers both in abundance.
    Essence, Essence, 28 Oct. 2025
  • As one of the century-old resort’s five distinct accommodations, the Beach Club offers seaside serenity that’s worth seeking out in the doldrums of winter.
    Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Silver Hugo for Best Sound goes to SOUND OF FALLING for its ability to echo, in both its silences and thunders, the constant hum of secrets passed from one generation to the next in the apparent domestic quiet that both conceals and reveals.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In the quiet of the Sabbath morning when all the neighborhood was wrapped in slumber, some dastardly degenerate crept into the room, choked her to death, assaulted her criminally and left her bruised and bleeding body lying on the bed.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Stillness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stillness. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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