repose

Considering that this basin of ours is encircled by mountains, and mountains keep leaning toward their angle of repose even without any help from earthquakes, it’s not surprising that gold makes repeated appearances.

To be sure, there are moments of relative repose.

It was the best Abel had ever done, a perfect representation of stupefied repose.

The space feels somewhere between a crypt and a cathedral, featuring paintings and bronze sculptures of reclining Black bodies, spread out in repose or entombed like corpses, that appear to glow from within.

Even in a moment of relative repose, Clark possessed a feline hyper-awareness of her surroundings.