becalming

Once in their seats, they never feel part of the same becalming, banal routine that other passengers do.

Yet hauled we are and, despite some becalming, pleasurably.

Te Kooti claimed that his uncle, who was sceptical of Te Kooti's claimed mystical powers,was to blame for the becalming, and should be sacrificed.

THE DISAPPOINTING waves at Pipemasters seemed to reflect a momentary becalming of the surfing industry.

He's at his best when he brings a fiction writer's alchemy to his task - when, for example, he compares the becalming of the ship to an overlong stay in a gallery full of beautiful pictures; or when he describes the experience of a storm at sea in terms of a sailor's eerie dreams.