immobility

How To Use immobility In A Sentence

• When they notice Jim, they freeze into immobility, and only when he has stayed still for a considerable length of time, making no sudden moves, do they return to their slow hunt for nuts and roots.
• Each was implied when he lamented the 'agitation' and 'immobility' of recent presidencies. Times, Sunday Times
• He was drunken to the point of incoherence and damaged to almost physical immobility.
• No mechanism can tolerate long periods of immobility.
• They are making up for the years of enforced immobility by becoming the world's most adventurous travellers.
• Although fixed fortifications can deter assault, they have one exploitable weakness: their immobility.
• Unmoving, but in her immobility lay a new freedom, one that was fundamental but unfathomable, simple but unknowable, pure but ungraspable.
• Looked back upon from revolutionary times, the old regime, good or bad, seemed an age of immobility and changeless routine, when nothing of importance had happened, or could happen.
• Others again, no less colossal, were disposed upon the steps of a monumental staircase which, by their decorative presence and marmorean immobility, was made worthy to be named, like that god-crowned ascent in the Palace of the Doges, the Swann's Way
• The wish for security may be represented by position, mere immobility; the wish for new experience by the greatest possible freedom of movement and constant change of position; the wish for response, by the number and closeness of points of contact; the wish for recognition, by the level desired or reached in the vertical plane of superordination and subordination. Introduction to the Science of Sociology