Inactivity

Usage examples of quiescence.

There came a moment of quiescence during which strange, extramundane senses probed the surroundings with what might have been surprise, interest, or cold speculation.

Homochon elements sank back into quiescence and the machinery of the body began to reassociate itself with mental control, there always came this period of supreme enlightenment.

Homochon elements sank back into quiescence and the machinery of the body began to reassociate itself with the mind, came this period of supreme revelation.

Homochon elements sank back into quiescence and the machinery of the body reassociated itself with the mind, came this period of supreme revelation.

Perhaps this outburst of light was an unprogrammed, random spasma last dying gasp of machines that were responding wildly to the warmth of a new sun, and would soon lapse again into quiescence, this time for ever.

The summary punishment inflicted on the condemned was sufficient to cow even bolder men than the Raiders, and they were frightened into at least quiescence.

In this case, if the animal is killed at the end of the fall, we have, at first sight, just the characteristics of a cycle of actions embodying desire, namely, restless movement until the ground is reached, and then quiescence.

It lay on the eastern verge of an enormous forest of cryptomeria and pine within which the Shinto temple blossomed like some other-worldly flora whose grace of design, quiescence and natural humility instantly bewitched the Colonel's mind, speaking to him more eloquently than even the country's finest speakers the eternalness and dignity of the Japanese spirit.

I expect the suicide attempt will bring it back into focus for a while, but then a period of quiescence can be expected as the vultures of the fourth estate feast on new carrion.

At the very moment of bouncing, its speed reduced, the corpuscles that basically composed it lengthened according to the laws of the Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction theory -- at that instant of almost quiescence, the fury of the Sun's rays was blotted out by the disintegrators.

After the first flurry of Affront Orbital and cruise ship takeovers with no obvious Culture military reply but talk of a mobilisation taking place (frustratingly, almost entirely beyond the news services' perceptions), the war seemed to have entered a period of relative quiescence.

He was aware of the quiescence of his resting body as a glow of self-enjoyment, but the desire to sleep had vanished.