• On a busy Friday before the Labor Day holiday, 25 customers were ensnared in a motionless line in a Wells Fargo branch in Santa Monica, California.

    FORBES: Hurry Up And Wait

  • For a moment, Haslet-Davis lay motionless amid a cloud of dust and mounting panic.

    CNN: Boston bombings destroy dancer's foot, but not her spirit

  • Wearing a red prison jumpsuit with "Centre County" printed on the back, Mr. Sandusky stood motionless in a crowded but hushed courtroom as Judge John Cleland read a list of individual sentences for 45 counts related to child sex abuse.

    WSJ: Jerry Sandusky Sentenced to 30 to 60 Years

  • An object in a foreign galaxy even an object moving at the speed of light would have looked motionless at such a huge distance.

    ECONOMIST: A symphony in gamma major

  • Harris and Freeman scrambled out of their row, stepping over a motionless woman in the fetal position to get into the aisle.

    WSJ: Witnesses Describe Colorado Theater Shooting

  • He also debunks the myth that remaining motionless may fool a circling shark into ignoring you and heading off for other prey.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | How best to fight off a shark?

  • Ofelia, wandering through a tunnel, encounters the Pale Man sitting motionless at the head of a banquet table covered with food.

    NEWYORKER: Show The Monster

  • Susanne did not flinch and, after a few slow moments with his mouth resting motionless on hers, he inserted a pointed tongue.

    NEWYORKER: The Yellow

  • He sat motionless and silent as a golf cart sped him from the bowels of the stadium moments after his defeat.

    WSJ: Andy Murray Tries to Crack Tennis's Inner Circle

  • Despite losing a couple of lengths at the start, there were never any signs of panic from his jockey, a virtually motionless Queally.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Essentially, if you get up at 6am every morning the body is not used to laying motionless in bed for a lot longer.

    BBC: Bank Holiday health risk

  • Wigan's stopper was eventually beaten and he stood motionless as he watched a Cahill header fly past him, only for the post to come to his rescue.

    BBC: Everton 0-0 Wigan

  • He lay motionless for hours facing a wall, semi-catatonic.

    NEWYORKER: Hellhole

  • Typically he would paint around 400 figures a day, standing almost motionless at the easel.

    ECONOMIST: Roman Opalka

  • There was nothing fortunate about the brilliant finish from Arshavin that put Arsenal ahead eight minutes later, taking a perfect first touch before lashing a finish high past the motionless Reina.

    BBC: Liverpool 1-2 Arsenal

  • Player-coach Wayne Slater ghosted in from the opponent's blue line, and hit a powerful slapshot straight past the motionless Nottingham netminder.

    BBC: Blackburn Hawks suffer Lions loss

  • Scored in three movements, their duration determined by chance, his four-minute-and-thirty-three-second work was first presented at the Maverick Concert Hall in New York, where the virtuoso pianist David Tudor performed it by sitting motionless at the piano, counting time on a stopwatch.

    FORBES: Did John Cage Invent Silence?

  • The crown of the weeping cherry, motionless and more than forty feet high, was a feathery mass against a sky strewn with stars.

    NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry

  • In the real world, the farther away an object is, the slower it seems to move. (That is why the horizon appears motionless, and is reassuring to look at during a bout of seasickness.) This means that shrinking a virtual scene, which makes it look farther away, also makes it appear to move more slowly.

    ECONOMIST: Vertigo

  • Among them were a woman and child, both of whom lay motionless after hitting the ground.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Eyewitness: Paris hotel blaze

  • Wearing a blue cardigan and grey trousers, he stood motionless in the dock during the ten-minute hearing.

    BBC: 1981: Man arrested for Ripper murders

  • In the small ward -- its walls painted a cheerful green -- her young patients lay motionless beneath the bulky, dated ventilator machines.

    CNN: Where have Europe's nurses gone?

  • And Ronaldo almost marked their arrival with United's second as he sent a thunderous right-foot shot against the crossbar with Almunia motionless.

    BBC: Man Utd 1-0 Arsenal

  • Ruby Walsh kicked for home on Fionnegas round the final bend but O'Connell was motionless as he drew alongside and cruised home to win by two and a half lengths.

    BBC: Alain Cawley rides Joncol to win the Hennessy Gold Cup

  • On Tuesday -- two days before President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama head to Waco, about 18 miles south, for a memorial service at Baylor University -- some of them stood motionless on their front lawns, taking in the devastation.

    CNN: Powerful Texas blast left nearly 100-foot-wide crater

  • In March 1993, Yoram Skolnik of Kiryat Arba, a settlement near Hebron, shot and killed Moussa Abu Sabah, who was lying motionless and tied-up on the ground.

    ECONOMIST: Israel

  • The home defenders watched motionless as they expected the ball to loop out of play, but Ward showed his willingness to chase a lost cause for a second time and hooked the ball from the byline into the six yard box.

    BBC: Swansea 2-3 Norwich

  • They spotted someone as a lump of masonry fell away, but the foot and hand we could see in the rubble were motionless.

    BBC: Bombers fail to derail Iraq's election success

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