stasis

This kind of stasis, not wanting to try new things and being scared of new things.

He set out to destroy the logical underpinnings of the art form by transforming drama into a carnivalesque collage that discovered surprise not through suspense but through stasis.

With these multigenerational scars, it should come as no surprise that many here have resigned themselves to a tragic stasis and a sense that what is broken will remain broken.

When Romy finds herself outside of that stasis, finally thinking about something that isn’t her family or her job, it’s an eye-opening miracle.

Their jovial temperament is perched in direct conflict with their circumstances, a plight that they’ve learned to normalize to go on living instead of existing in permanent stasis.