7 sentences with 'static'
Example sentences and phrases with the word static and other words derived from it.
• « Despite having lost the opulence and much of the learning of Rome, medieval Europe was not a static and completely backward place. Instead, it slowly but surely built an entirely new form of society in place of what it had been. »
• « Darwin's arguments surprised most of his contemporaries. His theory directly contradicted the biblical account of the natural world, in which God's creation is fundamentally static. »
• « Things were different in the east, however. In contrast to the essentially static nature of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Russian, German and Austrian armies in the east were highly mobile, sometimes crossing hundreds of miles in an attempt to outflank their enemies. »
• « The English Vorticists, for their part, tried to capture the impression of movement in static paintings, among other things by depicting literal explosions in their art. »
• « Eventually Einstein formulated equations that predicted that the universe could not be static. These equations were later confirmed, giving rise to the Big Bang theory. »
• « Now, seeing a static image against a moving background, he suddenly asked Sciama: "What would happen if Roger's singularity theory were applied to the whole universe?" »
• « Feudalism: this form of political and economic organisation was characterised by the presence of a feudal lord who ruled over units of agricultural and exchange economy. It was a static social organisation based, above all, on the personal relationships of subordination of the inhabitants of a region to the feudal lord. »