"Sit with the eyes tightly shut and in absolute stillness for two minutes," he said.

At last she stumbled into a pocket of absolute stillness.

The absolute stillness in the room brought his attention back to her.

In the absolute stillness it filled the universe - a cry like the single note of a bird.

She eased her hand upon his chest, froze into absolute stillness when he moved.

"I'm going home," she said, needing to hear herself just to offset his absolute stillness.

There was a long ugly moment of absolute stillness.

Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, that we were in the country.

She lay in absolute stillness, trying not to breathe, wondering what he was going to do with her.

He heard his own heart beating loudly and steadily in the absolute stillness.