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"hushed" Definitions
  1. (of a place) quiet because nobody is talking; much quieter than usual
  2. [usually before noun] (of voices) speaking very quietly
"hushed" Synonyms
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For her, these two states seem inseparable, darkness gradating into hushed light, and hushed light gradating into darkness.
As Barbara told her story, the arena went from lively to hushed, then from hushed to held-breath silence.
The servers spoke in hushed tones — almost too hushed — as they explained each course set in front of us.
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Pilots, it tells us in a hushed voiceover, are special.
Hushed at speed, the ride quality is smooth and comfortable.
Nobody's really talking to each other, there's this hushed feeling.
And it shouldn't be hushed up and buried, but embraced.
Notifications can be read to you in a hushed voice.
And there were hushed murmurs inside the various coworking spaces.
The opening theme reappeared in the finale, hushed this time.
"It's not nice to stare," they admonished in hushed voices.
There are plants, couches and people chatting in hushed tones.
The room hushed at the first big scholarship, for $8,000.
Scattered conversations and laughter hushed as a siren started blaring.
" There was a long pause and a hushed reply: "Yeah.
What makes both work is a kind of hushed intensity.
By this point, every conversation in the audience had hushed.
Its agonies are tempered, its regrets hushed, its restraint powerful.
The bank was immaculate, and everybody spoke in hushed tones.
In a hushed voice, he said he had lost everything.
Beachcombers walked the city's long oceanfront, as breakers hushed the sand.
He narrated every step of the way in a hushed voice.
That crime, rather surprisingly for such a small town, stays hushed.
And in hushed tones he extolled the virtues of Hillary Clinton.
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Drugs have been a hushed but vital part of doing business.
Downstairs, there is the clinking of glasses and hushed, melodic Italian.
It pulses in hushed arcs, as if snoring from the beyond.
But as soon as the doors opened, thunder hushed, clouds cleared.
This hushed panic is playing out in hospitals around the world.
Maybe my thoughts had just relaxed into their natural hushed state.
The chills are hushed in the festival's pick for opening night.
There were hurried footsteps and medical staff talking in hushed tones.
Mason gave up two easy goals that hushed the home crowd.
The film's hushed restraint made its conclusion all the more shattering.
A hushed world of tiny things — the meager and the marginalized.
The feeling in the room changes again — it's hushed, heating up.
When I got online, the chatter on Facebook and Twitter hushed.
Yet the harsh truth about the workings of said economy isn't hushed.
The way weed was displayed in the media justified their hushed tones.
We're the way-ward relatives neighbors gossip about in hushed, horrified tones.
The ride is remarkably composed, with wind and road noise adequately hushed.
But would erasing those tags change the new season's relatively hushed reception?
Befitting its protagonists, "Loving" is a hushed work that shimmers with grace.
Sung barefooted to a hushed crowd in the BC Place Stadium, k.d.
This is the decision of my soul' We spoke in hushed tones.
The only sounds you hear are hushed whispers among the crew members.
His normally hushed voice rose on the final word of that sentence.
After the letter was read, a hushed silence fell under the tent.
These are the men who talk in hushed tones about pressing plants.
The sum exceeds the parts: an airy, hushed, ineffably lovely sonic contraption.
They're hushed up and they carry this around with them for years.
People who saw it still speak of the experience in hushed tones.
"Rare Sighting of Kirtland's Warbler Sends Birdwatchers Into Hushed Frenzy," wrote Gothamist.
The hushed reverence of the shrine is rudely disturbed by Miyasaka's phone.
During the day, the volume ranged from hushed to coffee-shop-level.
In the sacred space this hushed passage sounded like a forlorn benediction.
There were hushed conversations, more bustling in the parking lot than usual.
We share them in hushed tones to trusted peers, friends, and partners.
Uighurs speak in hushed tones of restrictions on Islam and mass detentions.
It is a quiet moment, if not a peaceful one, and the crowd in Rod Laver Arena, which included Laver himself, stayed hushed on Tuesday, just as crowds around the world have stayed hushed with Sharapova mulling her options.
"It's just so sad," the boy says in a hushed tone, staring off.
The white noise is present in the mix, and Bannon's vocals are hushed.
Across the way stood another group huddled together and speaking in hushed tones.
It was able to recognize my hushed tones from around 20 feet away.
They talked in hushed tones, as if conspiring on a top-secret plan.
Stearns also takes a more hushed, deadpan, small-scale approach to the material.
His name was used only when necessary, and then, only in hushed tones.
IN 2021 Charterhouse's hushed cloisters and vast, immaculate lawns will welcome new arrivals.
Perhaps the Crawley family is having a hushed conversation as cameras circle in.
Tarzan is deeply reverent, and the movie adopts his tone of hushed adoration,
The wind in the trees and the hushed birdsong are more than enough.
The after-work crowd encroaches, and the hushed conversation becomes a dull roar.
It was an unusually cold day, and the campus was hushed and empty.
They sat on the stairs in a hallway and spoke in hushed tones.
Three decades ago, this hushed and hallowed place was a theater of war.
This is not a usual reaction, said Cecilia, before another nurse hushed her.
Through hushed tones and plenty of tears, these confidantes talked me off ledges.
Even as adults, death is couched in the distinct, hushed tones of taboo.
The narrative of our menses is largely hushed out of popular cultural space.
Those songs have a hushed private sound to them that I really love.
On a recent Saturday night, the street was far more hushed than usual.
His parents talked in hushed tones about stifled black anger and police hostility.
Guards periodically hushed the crowds, and stepped in to stop people taking photographs.
They looked at us and started talking to each other in hushed tones.
The whole city felt hushed, focussed, like a young dancer counting her steps.
It used to be that their stories were told only in hushed whispers.
The result is extraordinary: a hushed, cool, earthen sanctuary that almost feels underground.
The atmosphere was hushed in a Bonobos store in Manhattan this past week.
The cabin, aided by noise cancellation technology, is hushed in the expected way.
Hushed young men in ties and hushed young women in sweater sets and hose — you dress up if you work for the White House — held pencils between their teeth or behind their ears, all of them with their heads bent, reading.
There were credible historical cases that went uninvestigated or were hushed up for years.
Now that he is, there's a hushed reverence and quaking terror in his voice.
Chris Coons and Jon Tester, sitting in the back — leaned in for hushed conversations.
She sang one of them, "A Church in Ruins," as a hushed, skeletal encore.
Would we want an FBI that can only be spoken of in hushed whispers?
Important men talked in hushed, hurt tones about Conte being so wrong, so misguided.
The atmosphere is one of hushed disclosure: the music implies more than it says.
The next day under a beating sun, thousands bent in prayer in hushed unison.
Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson's version of "Amazing Grace" pierces through the otherwise hushed room.
On Cranberry, though, the hushed, instinctively simple harmonies set Cranberry apart from that lot.
"What normal person wants to blunder into this hushed and sacred space?" she asks.
Now, though, they allow entry into the sumptuous and hushed sanctuary of Betony Vernon.
In the hushed calm of the library, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
"My parents are abusive," the hushed audience heard a 17-year-old girl say.
Partly this was because the mishaps were officially hushed up, leaving only his triumph.
Summer brings droves of tourists, but out of season the village is hushed, drowsy.
In reality, though, making safes is a hushed trade built on discretion and trust.
The woods were hushed around us, a cradle of pure whites, reds and greens.
They walked away, speaking in hushed tones that Hezbollah should have been more aggressive.
Nor is it just their hushed contemplation of aloneness and connection that links them.
It begins with the violin playing almost gauzy, hushed high tones and scratchy effects.
But there's something magical about a cityscape blanketed in white, hushed by the cold.
It evokes a hushed awe, the trepidation that loud noises might dishonor the space.
No one laughed, and there was a lot of hushed whispering in the room.
"I love to say the word 'period' onstage," Esposito whispers, almost hushed in reverence.
"We could hear this low hushed argument happening, and then it escalated quickly," Machado says.
But others, who seemed keen to mock the journalists present, were hushed by their friends.
Lazzaretto Vecchio, on the other hand, has the hushed, contemplative atmosphere of an art gallery.
But most of the people watching the scene are silent or talk in hushed tones.
"Honey, we think you're a…lesbian" her mother Nancy (Mink Stoll) confesses in hushed tones.
In the laundry room, stories of domestic abuse circulate in hushed conversations among the women.
Such cases have in the past ended with fines, been swiftly closed, or hushed up.
Cigarette smoke hangs heavy in the air, as men in fedoras talk in hushed tones.
These days, though, much of that noise has been hushed up, legislated and gentrified away.
"The people in there were quiet, hushed, waiting for the final results," Brown told me.
Anti-poachers remain hushed about their precise tactics and the number of poachers they've killed.
Most of the songs begin with Ms. Sandé singing quietly above a hushed, echoey backdrop.
The first canon begins with a violin playing whispery, repeated tones against a hushed piano.
I think of our house on the edge of the village, hushed, veiled in honeysuckle.
These are the men who talk in hushed tones about pressings, and fidelity, and authenticity.
The embarrassing mishap, blamed on "human error," was hushed up by the ministry of defense.
The actress Fidaa Zaidan had a hushed word with Alexandra Aron, the play's American producer.
Hushed Commotion is a bridal accessories studio in Bedford-Stuyvesant, owned by Thea Bloch-Neal.
The geopolitics of the war seemed distant, however, in the hushed hunger wards in Aslam.
On my visit, the mood in the gallery was hushed, the lighting low and dramatic.
"I need to talk to you," he told me, his voice hushed, his expression earnest.
All Radha's emotion is hushed, even when at one point she falls to the floor.
Co-workers at the newspaper would speak of The Albatross in hushed, almost reverential tones.
People spoke in hushed voices, not the usual clowning, speculating about what might have happened.
It was no longer a cautionary tale or a distant threat discussed in hushed tones.
The silence disconcerted some aides, who are used to furious outbursts instead of hushed discontent.
Dortmund Journal DORTMUND, Germany — In Germany, museums are usually hallowed, hushed halls of high culture.
The 12 of us around the kitchen table said our prayers individually in hushed tones.
And many streets, particularly on the west side, are dead-ends, creating hushed, private enclaves.
The man spoke in hushed tones, almost shielding his face from view with his hand.
Then he adds, "We'regoingtohavetogonuclear …" before being hushed by the moderator for busting the one-word rule.
In short, has the word Genius (spoken in hushed tones) flung a cordon sanitaire around him?
Lombardo said the researchers kept it hushed up because they knew even then it was unethical.
"He hushed me and said, 'Let's talk about this in your apartment,'" de la Huerta said.
Gone are the days of hushed rallies, punctuated only by the thud of felt on strings.
The star adorably hushed the crowd, putting her finger up to her mouth with a smile.
Her husband's family in China was hushed about everything; they even refused to investigate his death.
The riot kicks off as Wright and Carter have a hushed conversation—the one about eugenics.
Fears of revenge attacks Those fears are echoed elsewhere in Iraqi Kurdistan, albeit in hushed tones.
The hosts—the patients, their organs—were the hushed audience, the afflicted victims, the passive onlookers.
If someone said something offensive or loutish, there was little fear of being hushed or contradicted.
Her hushed and repeated "push it, push it, real" entices like a devil on a shoulder.
Fingers need to be pointed at the accusers, not placed on lips to keep things hushed.
"We talk about it in the bathroom in hushed tones," Chief Monahan said in his eulogy.
It's frustrating that mental health is one of those things I only hear in hushed whispers.
The work never rose above a generally hushed volume, but its contrasts rang with real force.
" But the notion felt so wishful, he recalled, "You had to say it in hushed tones.
Single-family homes sit on larger lots, and some streets end in hushed cul-de-sacs.
But most of the action is far from combat, consisting of hushed meetings and heated arguments.
They had hushed conversations and quick kisses away from prying eyes and the shelter's security cameras.
Momentous things happen in "Hala," but the soundtrack remains mostly hushed and voices are rarely raised.
Stripped of paneling, dropped ceiling, and carpet, the once elegantly hushed downstairs was an echoey hull.
This is a vast interior, high ceilings and soft light, with a hushed quality to it.
They capture a sense of hushed calm, but also offer a space for anything to happen.
Here, finally, was a pop equivalent to the hushed crackle and morbidity associated with SoundCloud rap.
"In the case of John Sinclair, my parents regarded him with hushed [reverent] tones," said Yates.
Any time a company promises to bring jobs to a new spot, the search is predictably hushed.
Tehran, Iran (CNN)People in Tehran speak in hushed tones about what the coming days may bring.
The installation Hammer Projects: Kevin Beasley currently occupies the aforementioned hall, and the atmosphere is appropriately hushed.
Outside noises are now easier to hear, whereas they were mostly hushed and inaudible before the update.
In hushed voices, the total strangers hold hands and comfort each other while hiding among the dead.
DRESSED IN A cassock-like kimono, the tea master prepares the infusion as his hushed congregation watches.
The refrain, echoed again and again in hushed conversations on the sidelines: Romney built this over decades.
"He hushed me and said, 'Let's talk about this in your apartment,&apos" de la Huerta said.
"Quiet spaces allow you to change gear," Bentley told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a hushed tone.
The cat [grabbed] onto the ring and was slowly hoisted up as the view crowd became hushed.
At his most vigorous, Mr. Wey erupts into a kind of grunting and rapid, hushed, unintelligible talking.
Men are not allowed in the dressing room for the preparations, which take place in hushed silence.
No matter how hushed the site-wide discount, the brand's star products are sure to go fast.
MIEARS brings ghostly, hushed songwriting into the modern age with soaring voice, shimmering keyboards, and slick production.
In a similar way, I was so hushed before Schweger's paintings, I could hear my own breathing.
This scarcely seems Ridley's fault and presumably neither is Ophelia's habit of speaking in hushed Malickian tones.
Rothko's paintings are dramatic without being theatrical, which isn't to say that they are hushed or muffled.
The portraits at Sean Kelly are nearly 10 feet tall and almost underlit, creating a hushed room.
The place was hushed; spring sunlight glinted on the gilded decorations and warmed the dark oak paneling.
The halls of the Jewish Museum in Manhattan were hushed and dim as Amar'e Stoudemire stepped inside.
Passing power is ample at highway speeds, but the cabin is hushed and unbothered during routine cruising.
This machine, with its ability to tear houses from their foundations, is hushed like a luxury car.
A lifetime subscription to Hushed is normally $150, but it's just $25 today in the Mashable Shop.
WASHINGTON — At the State Department, the normally pulsating hub of executive offices is hushed and virtually empty.
The meaning of his parents' shouting (or hushed voices) may have sailed right over his adolescent head.
Pontormo's figures, though illuminated in godliness, are invariably human in their proportions and hushed in their emotions.
"Neon Dad" could be shoegaze, with Borcherdt's hushed vocals and Explosions in the Sky-like guitar work.
Both are paintings of contrasts, starting with darkness and light, albeit one that is gloomy and hushed.
Even with the din of opening night revelry in the spaces outside, visitors hushed as they entered there.
His version of "Ashes to Ashes" trades the original's electronics for hushed piano and harmonies from Karen Elson.
A viewing for the 41st president at the hushed Capitol Rotunda drew to a close on Wednesday morning.
Donald Trump presumably wanted to keep the Stormy Daniels hush money hushed, but his lawyer left a trail.
Hushed discussions in dark corridors are about illicit affairs, forbidden romances, or the passing-on of terrible secrets.
As Mr Walsh reminded the hushed crowd: Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
I passed women in the lobby of our building, huddled together talking in hushed voices about the tragedy.
They also didn't tell me that in those hushed conversations, they were making plans to win the lottery.
Using the same tech used in noise-canceling headphones, the MKX is as hushed as it is powerful.
"I think everyone's reaction in the room was pretty hushed," Byron Folwell, an architect on the team, said.
While talk of the Bayer, Monsanto merger has been hushed in Washington, it is big news for farmers.
There was hushed silence for panels held in an auditorium, and more socializing once everyone adjourned for cocktails.
My reaction to the picture—embarrassing for my companion in the hushed space—was a loud, echoing laugh.
Judge Barry G. Williams, who presided over the Goodson trial, issued the verdicts to a hushed, packed courtroom.
Berger and nearly a dozen Lib Dem activists canvassed a hushed pocket of East Finchley on Wednesday night.
So Laura only looked, and gently hushed Grace, though she was as excited and overwhelmed as Carrie was.
At Saks, the personal-shopping area looks like a high-end salon, all hushed grays and sparkling lights.
" Instead, the author displays the "cold, bitter poetry of Bogotá and the hushed intensity of young married love.
"I can't talk too loudly or they'll take my phone away," said a panicked, hushed voice in one.
Today we don't expect — or even want — carpeted, hushed spaces when we go out for meticulously prepared food.
But you're still watching a lot of people speak in hushed voices over diagrams of nuclear power plants.
That London chorus, 130 strong, projected hushed mystery, hell-storming outbursts and everything in between with utmost ease.
The voice became louder and more frequent, even in the middle of a song during a hushed moment.
The show implied a whole world: a hushed, calm, serious space in which knowledge was celebrated and rewarded.
Hushed Private Phone Line is designed to be an easier to use, more versatile answer to Google Voice.
Word spread across forums about "the hardest game ever made" in hushed tones, as if it were contraband.
The space should be loud rather than hushed, jumbled rather than staid, interactive rather than wholly glass-encased.
The solemn silence of the assembled is broken as they shake hands and greet each other in hushed tones.
To me, church meant the hushed tones, muted colors, and high tight collars of Sunday best in my youth.
We were always hushed, the rustle of fabric amplified against the silence of empty houses or playgrounds at night.
The film's frequent hushed moments did ultimately dictate how things were handled during the shoot, although not at first.
Many in Edinburgh speak in hushed tones of the party's invulnerability, and it remains well ahead in the polls.
At least we now know that when the robots do come for us they'll do so with hushed voices.
"Your mother created our world," Keira Knightley, the film's Sugar Plum Fairy, tells Clara in a hushed, raspy tone.
She said it took five hours for the "hushed deed," after pondering whether to do it for a month.
The fair's hushed and (relatively) calm atmosphere makes it that much easier to delve deeply into these artists' works.
Visitors talk in hushed tones and line up for the blessing of a woman in a long red gown.
Often taboo and hushed away, celebrities like Lena Dunham have put menstruation and disorders like endometriosis in the spotlight.
"They have no idea what is waiting for them on the other side," he said in a hushed voice.
You shouldn't have to speak about it in hushed tones or code names; you should be proud of it.
Food is presented in the kind of exquisite, idiosyncratic ceramic plates I'm used to seeing at hushed Japanese restaurants.
You will be humbled and hushed in the places marking the Revolutionary War and the founding of our country.
In a hushed rotunda, the original founding documents lay under glass, with low light to protect the fading parchment.
Compounding—and perhaps because of—these factors are the hushed tones in which a good birth is spoken about.
"I had land there, beautiful land," the indigenous community leader said, her hushed voice beginning to crack with emotion.
But this glassy and hushed restaurant that opened last year offers an organic enclave amid the asphalt and concrete.
Decades of hushed-up complaints show sexual misconduct is as terrible an open secret in Congress as in Hollywood.
His dreamlike images almost convey a hushed scene, as if they were taken backstage where not much is happening.
Do the white tablecloths, cover charges and hushed-up voices of so many commercial establishments leave you feeling crimped?
At my back, an immense, hushed, empty reading room designed by Jacopo Sansovino and decorated by Titian and Veronese.
He was a leader of al-Shabaab; people spoke of him in hushed tones that conveyed reverence and fear.
But the Belarussians kept a respectful distance, gesturing toward her and speaking in hushed tones as she walked past.
The meetings still go on, in locked rooms and hushed tones in five-star hotels, the workshopping, the brainstorming.
"She wants a trim," my mother said in a hushed voice, and Tawney received this confidence with a nod.
In this 2003 fight, the audience is placated in a hushed awe, unsure which of them to side with.
"We believe we are on the cusp of revealing something very exciting," Mr. Rogers, 224, said in hushed tones.
The tone is hushed, the student wants to share his isolation and his pain without any display of drama.
They talk in hushed tones on a couch as the party continues beside them, lost in their own world.
On Wednesday morning a school group made a ruckus in the lobby during a hushed passage of the score.
Its monster only occasionally embodies the otherworldly fearfulness that leads the characters to speak of it in hushed tones.
For a while, the only channel for our frustration was hushed conversations in the hallways, disconnected networks of complaint.
Some regulars were eagerly discussing, in hushed tones, a "loony" and "incisive" comic one of them had seen recently.
As players and fans grasped what had occurred, Yankee Stadium grew hushed and play was halted for several minutes.
I pictured an enormous, hushed, dim place, where comic books lay in rows of cubbyholes, like a candlelit library.
Had the Stormy Daniels scandal not been hushed up, there's a good chance he would have lost the election.
Only passing episodes of assertive, gnarly music disrupt the mostly hushed, urgent conversation that dominates this sonic tone poem.
Japanese-style listening bars, where D.J.'s spin carefully selected records for a hushed audience, are arriving in America.
The dim lighting underscores the sense of sacred space, as do the hushed acoustics resulting from the carpeted walls.
They are fascinating figures, hushed totems of solitude, but also of a strangely introverted kind of deep, deep joy.
Night or day, a harmony of hushed greens, understated blues, and soft beiges glimmer under the port city's restless skies.
For years, that reality has been enough to keep media executives up at night — but also hushed in their criticism.
The relaxing piano melodies and hushed synth pads combine with an angelic chorus to create a sense of contemplative calm.
The addition of another color brings light to the black ground, but it is hushed and elusive, less than flicker.
Over six days around the Florida Keys and Miami, the supple ride, fantastic seats and hushed cabin never got old.
Keating's refinement period was an attempt to find his own hushed and unassuming voice in a world of exuberant maximalism.
The song's the zenith of Kirin J Callinan's irreverent vision, bouncing between hushed balladry, spaghetti western whistles, and blitzkrieg EDM.
A wisp of acoustic guitar will melt into an echoey drone; a hushed vocal will dissolve into a field recording.
You could feel it and see it all around -- so many blank stares and hushed tones and, eventually, the tears.
The brick building housing it was filled with pigeon droppings, and the echoes of its organ had hushed years earlier.
Amazon was often described in hushed tones; several exhibitors and speakers tried to avoid naming the online retailer at all.
"Mi tek the words me say very serious," he said in a hushed voice about naming his sophomore album Forever.
Davelle might be loveliest in the morning, hushed and half-empty, with crumbs as fine as dust on your fingers.
" Minutes passed, and "nature now became hushed, the birds sang their evening song, and the cocks were heard to crow.
"I thought, God, you could do it like that," he said, his voice recalling the hushed awe of artistic revelation.
On audio messages Hamza sounds remarkably like his father, with the same hushed intensity and much of the same phraseology.
Resident Maria Kryuchkova said she felt that clear safety risks were being hushed up and broadly ignored by state television.
Resident Maria Kryuchkova said she felt that clear safety risks were being hushed up and broadly ignored by state television.
It felt as though I were hiking through an uncanny valley, a place hushed by ruin but humming with growth.
The waiter died, and his family briefly asked questions before everything was hushed up by the almighty power of money.
What makes this Chevy worth the extra money is the hushed cabin and a suspension that soaks up big bumps.
A few years ago, extensions and hair pieces were talked about in hushed tones — and now, they're flooding our Instagram feeds.
The public announcement of the suspensions has surprised observers, who point out that usually such incidents are hushed up or relabeled.
The dramatic scene on Capitol Hill followed 24 hours of tense negotiations and hushed meetings on both ends of Pennsylvania Ave.
Covering an eight-year span, they share a hushed and crackly intensity, often with little more than voice and acoustic guitar.
These days, people die in hospitals or hospices, so death is removed from the house and spoken about in hushed tones.
I'll make it safe for you to speak publicly, rather than in hushed tones at the local bar or gun show.
As the speech began, I engaged in hushed conversation with the first lady as I tried to understand everything around me.
A Harrods employee sidled over and, in a hushed voice, told us that we were looking at a famous celebrity's family.
There's a hushed anticipation in the room as we prepare our dough and ourselves for the kneading out of our rage.
Here, too, were crescendo climaxes, but lushly bluesy, more Gershwinian than Mahlerian, before an unexpected ending: a hushed, nearly toneless whoosh.
It's not Buick-quiet, but road noise is hushed enough that you can overhear the children commenting on your driving style.
The injury becomes the justification for one of those fraught family reunions filled with awkward silences, furious eruptions and hushed huddles.
Many speak in hushed, reverent tones about Dom Tacho, a simple spot famed for its faithful renderings of classic Portuguese snacks.
But when it zooms in on the growing friendship between these two girls, there's a kind of hushed mystery to it.
But in this score the stillness is animated internally with swirling figures, restless bits, and hushed riffs that come and go.
"Their buddies wrap them up in whatever passes as a shroud," Mr. Kelly told an unusually hushed room filled with reporters.
The air was hushed, minus the lounge music, aromatherapy scents and other distractions the hotel used to state their elevated style. 
Richard Nelson's hushed staging of Chekhov's tragicomedy, in a new translation by Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, empties its samovar.
Hushed and character-driven, this mix of indie fare and blockbusters works ferociously on adult anxieties in an age of dislocation.
One standout is "The Visit" (1899) a velvety vignette of a man welcoming a woman into a hushed apartment at dusk.
Fighting back tears, Ms. Sciorra testified in excruciating detail to a hushed courtroom about the night she said she was attacked.
After a few uneasy laughs, the audience grew hushed as Mr. Herron related telling his partner the news on election night.
Family is the most important word in these movies, the one that's dropped with moist emotion and hushed Sunday-sermon reverence.
Mr. Nakazawa put customers who might have felt out of their depth in a hushed, old-school nigiri sanctuary at ease.
Sequestered high above most of the city, the living memorial today constitutes a hushed and evocative refuge from Washington's quotidian intrigues.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of "Americanah" and "We Should All Be Feminists," remembers the hushed tones that accompanied her first period.
All this internal friction has to be maddening to Republicans, like Mr. McConnell, who prefer to keep family feuds hushed up.
The result is a sense of hushed intimacy, and yet Keating keeps the listener at arm's length, perhaps out of necessity.
She cuts off the "morto," leaving you hanging as hushed violas, playing an eerily steady sustained tone, wait in the background.
This 21948,000-year-old harbor is a labyrinth of white stone alleys, hushed mosques and markets brimming with antiques and spices.
These conversations took place in hushed tones — one person literally looked over his shoulder to make sure no one could hear.
Title track "Undertale" loops a set of hushed chimes around a spiraling, contemplative tune and becomes a thing of bent fragility.
Todd: I did like the gravity of this latest bioweapon, which ​liquefies your organs (best if said in a horrified, hushed tone).
Laura and Emma, a debut novel from Kate Greathead, is a book that insists on its own quietness, its own hushed ideas.
Wigs are no longer discussed in secret or hushed tones, but proudly flaunted as a source of transformation, creativity, and social status.
Every single time I asked [the official] why he was asking me these questions, he hushed me … I wasn't prepared for this.
I don't want to be complicit, even peripherally, in the idea that being gay is a problem to be solved or hushed.
In that moment, I'm told in rushed, hushed Italian, that it's slightly sacrilegious to do anything but drive and clean a Maserati.
When Glines was a pledge, Poumakis had been a house legend, spoken of in hushed tones by the seniors who remembered him.
His partner was Tiler Peck, who beautifully caught its atmosphere of hushed tranquillity and rapture — the atmosphere that Mr. Hall effortlessly conjures.
But in the hushed conversations that follow, Republicans have wondered whether Trump fully grasps the misery Democrats could unleash on his presidency.
We're told, in hushed tones by his greatest enemy, that Mitchell has done things that have spun others off the rails before.
The "Ride of the Valkyries" is almost dancelike; Wotan's Farewell, with Matthias Goerne singing opposite Petra Lang, is rich in hushed emotion.
Jenkins let the ball fly, and it seemed that the nearly 75,000 spectators dropped their jaws and hushed their breath in unison.
When the members of the household warily discuss the "incautious" Pastor Brahms, they mention the words "concentration camp," but in hushed tones.
The superb principal woodwinds were positively melting in their hushed choirs, with the oboist Richard Woodhams doing the heavy lifting in solos.
"It talked about the hushed perfection of the place, and the silence as the diners were presented these inventive plates," he said.
Maybe that means opting for a brightly colored, musically scored celebration of life instead of a hushed service at a funeral home.
They seem to wield a hushed influence over the academy's students, daring them to imagine one day being accepted to such universities.
If chatter rarely rises above a hushed whisper in either boutique, it's because clients know this is a place for sweet meditation.
Such programs are innovative for the Louvre's usual retinue of events, yet the programming was made public in a relatively hushed way.
The city hosts an annual jazz festival and nightly live shows are staged in hushed clubs around town, including the atmospheric Sone.
In "Morgen," it was the orchestra's concertmaster, Frank Huang, who brought the song to a close with a solo of hushed mystery.
They described how some of Mr. Weinstein's executives and assistants then found them agents and jobs or hushed actresses who were upset.
But the city still felt hushed all day, even as protesters with umbrellas and gas masks squared off against the riot police.
No longer simply a modish place to find high design by local makers, the Future Perfect now has a hushed, theatrical gravitas.
It's also pretty quiet, though a fixed-top pickup from Ford or Chevy will probably still be more hushed on the freeway.
And a hushed, partly a cappella number from the principal actresses inspires rapture: "Stronger," which celebrates the "Thrones" tradition of powerful women.
Her debut album, last year's "At Weddings," documented in hushed ambient-folk songs her split from the Baptist church of her youth.
In hushed tones we curse the casual and constant bigotry of this administration, just as we beg each other to take good care.
As Sarah Lipstate's Sunday afternoon sound sermon soared up to the rafters, listeners sat serenely in the sun and parents hushed their children.
For the last five years, with rare exception, Hollande's ongoing relationship with actress Julie Gayet has remained a hushed affair of state. 5.
ALL this week, crowds have been waiting in hushed lines to view a yellowing document on display at the National Archives in Tokyo.
Liberals, in hushed tones that turned to gleeful cackles by the end of the campaign, fretted that someone else would figure this out.
There was a hushed excitement as they were shepherded into the enclosure, clutching their cameras as they skirted around the rhino's blind side.
"It is the time of the year when markets trade with hushed tones," Jingyi Pan, market strategist at IG, wrote in a note.
What's not to like about 18 holes of dudes occasionally whacking lil' balls on stunning pastoral landscapes while announcers mumble in hushed tones?
"Oedipe" offered a hushed chorus and then a canny duet in which Oedipus' rage meets Antigone's steadiness, a mixture of vigor and calm.
In what is normally one of the most raucous arenas in the N.H.L., the only background noise was the murmur of hushed voices.
There was a murmur of hushed conversation among the family members whom I had first seen no more than half an hour before.
Ellsberg and Post reporter Ben Bagdikian (Bob Odenkirk), share the film's few paranoid scenes: hushed calls from payphones, a meeting in a motel.
"It's like a tourist attraction," said one waitress, speaking in hushed tones because the staff was under orders not to discuss the death.
I sometimes imagine that it was spoken about in hushed tones, like the disturbing videocassette at heart of the horror classic The Ring.
It inhabits its own winningly intimate, hushed, balmy aural space, and it corrects several tendencies that befall artists who address similar subject matter.
That's because about five to 10 years ago, extensions were something people talked about in hushed tones (or didn't talk about at all).
In the video, craggy-faced veterans of the 101st Airborne recounted harrowing war stories of rescue missions and daring attacks in hushed tones.
At one point, passengers hushed each other to hear a Delta representative, who was trying to get travelers' attention by shouting, Kerwin recalled.
By that time, something clearly was up in courtroom, because of the unexpected delay and the long, hushed conversations the lawyers were having.
You catch an occasional glimpse of a person sprinting past the frame; the sound of his running feet echo through the hushed museum.
The audience was completely hushed, awaiting each fiddle line or banjo lick, each unexpected harmonic turn, each precise swell of three-part harmony.
Mr. van Zweden found more focus in the second movement's otherworldly tenderness, and polished to a glisten effects like that Adagio's hushed strings.
Money is obligatorily hushed at a house like Hermès, as befits a label founded centuries ago to cater to the French carriage trade.
"All for You" is a serenely awe-struck lullaby, with Trixie Whitley's hushed, hazy voice sounding just earthy enough amid shimmering, cyclical chords.
My evening disappeared into hushed conversation in the small, Prohibition-style space, filled with dark leather, ornate accents, and gold-tasseled table cloths.
ISTANBUL, Turkey — In the hushed reading room of the Turkish-German Bookstore, you'd hardly know Turkey and Germany are seething at each other.
Mr. Forsythe has created a setting — not completely silent, but nice and hushed — that encourages listening with both the ears and the eyes.
"The Sopranos" actress fought back tears as she told a hushed courtroom, in excruciating detail, about the night she said she was attacked.
And here is a dirty little secret: Public libraries, despite their reputations for hushed wonder about the written word, can be rough places.
So divided a life cannot be hushed up for long, and rumors reach the ears of her husband, who is away on business.
Mr. Pandit has followed these developments from the hushed apartment in New Delhi where he lives with the third of his four daughters.
There had been hushed speculation that the court, in coming to its decision, had the tacit, if not overt, backing of powerful generals.
The party's pro-Palestinian flank — which, at one time, voiced support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement — went from hushed to outright silent.
When the choir first answered her, with lines evoking a mother's consolation, its tone was so hushed that it sounded like a memory.
In her first trial, she presented herself as a demure schoolgirl, speaking in a hushed voice with faint traces of a British accent.
Simply titled "Grey" or "White #4," these works depict bobbing, crystallized forms, as if caught in resin, and have a wonderfully hushed rhythm.
"The law does not allow license because someone is a good person," Quaintance said in passing the a sentence before a hushed courtroom.
Another man, who said he was Mr. Tracy's neighbor, recalled in hushed tones seeing nude participants at a performance art piece in 1990.
Some had come to know her, Maya Moore of the W.N.B.A., but no one in the tense, hushed room paid her any mind.
After roughly 10,000 years of long shots of jail inmates walking down hallways and hushed arguments between lawyers, the trial is finally happening.
The implication for Trumpian conspiracists is that Hillary Clinton or others in the Obama administration hushed up this investigation to advance the deal.
The latest bout in Las Vegas is not taking place in a raucous casino boxing ring, but in the hushed rooms of planning committees.
Some of the crew was packing stuff up nearby, and everyone on this makeshift set kept getting hushed and shushed by the video producers.
What's most alarming about Facebook's hushed tones on its record outage is that the company was once known for its legendary obsession with uptime.
Zhao says his hushed watering hole draws no complaints from the neighbors, some of whom occasionally pop by for a drink at the bar.
For about five minutes, Tebow and Nel-Peters talked about their relationship and its future in hushed tones before Tebow dropped to one knee.
And yet while The Last Man on the Moon is more hushed and elegiac, the story it tells is remarkably similar to First Man's.
It was a hushed affair that lacked the public-facing lens you might expect from one of the present-day leaders in social media.
The sentiment is echoed in other parts of the kingdom's capital, where praise for the visit is spoken of in hushed and forceful tones.
Even would-be allies, those who spend their lives fighting for criminal justice reform, speak of violent criminals in hushed tones, if at all.
" While it initially feels tender, the song reveals a dark underbelly, particularly in its hushed final moments: "She begs me not to hit her.
While the arrangements are warmer and more ornate, they float through space as idly as his previous work, and exude the same hushed delicacy.
Though hushed household tensions do arise between men and women, they are quashed in favor of the family's health and the woman's upward mobility.
One after another—sometimes in hushed tones—his fellow hikers and constituents tell him how grateful they are to have him on Capitol Hill.
I've had friends tell me in hushed tones, over spears of octopus or bowls of beef tongue, that their boyfriends would never eat this.
The brief moments of hushed ambience that open both Burial full-lengths (and close Burial) that don't seem crucial when plucked from their context.
He cackled in between phrases and threw his mic from hand to hand with an absurd grin, but never let his hushed phrasing waver.
"Cynthia, we feel badly about what happened," she tells Liz Reddick's secretary, in a hushed voice, strategically placing her hand over the N.D.A. file.
LINDALE, Texas — A small group of women at a recent City Council meeting held hands and offered hushed prayers in an otherwise silent room.
More than 100 works by Ms. Whiteread are on view now in her hushed first American retrospective, at the National Gallery of Art here.
She says when she got home and confronted him in the lobby, Weinstein "hushed her" and insisted on speaking in private ... in her apartment.
" Listen to his hushed pain as, after calling Eurydice's name and begging for an answer, he quietly sings, "It's your husband, your faithful husband.
WIMBLEDON, England — Though Cori Gauff is only 19973, tennis people in the know have been speaking in hushed tones about her talent for years.
"This is the first one to die in three months," Dr Fernando de la Gandara, the center's director, reassures me in a hushed tone.
The songs she writes with her brother and producer, Finneas O'Connell, are usually hushed ballads that glance back at Lana Del Rey and Lorde.
A shot of the main branch's exterior accompanied by the city's cacophonous din is answered by a shot of its hushed and vaulted entranceway.
"Children" is a haunting, hushed track that Harris says was discarded from her beautiful and immersive 2014 album Ruins because it didn't quite fit.
The Senate chamber fell hushed when Marianne settled at the large oak table and pulled out a few sheets of paper with handwritten notes.
The jewellers on the other side of the classroom had their heads bowed, their hushed talk was full of confession, punctuated with filthy shrieks.
When I first heard Ms. Cook sing it at an all-star Carnegie Hall event, her rendition brought the auditorium to a hushed silence.
The array of companies testifying in a hushed hearing room in Washington on Tuesday included TV makers, auto parts suppliers, steel companies and retailers.
There are others who witness and hear these atrocities and choose to say nothing, or choose to speak to us later in hushed corners.
Written and directed by Kitty Green (whose last film was the 2017 documentary "Casting JonBenet"), "The Assistant" is hushed and gray-toned and glacial.
Her eyes welling with hateful tears, I could only breathe out a whisper of words, so hushed they were barely audible: 'It's OK, Mommy.
The couple's brief time together sets a hushed, poignant tone and establishes the dramatic and emotional limits within which "A Ghost Story" will operate.
The Electric is quick off the line, hushed inside, and would be, uh, a gas to drive if not for its efficiency-minded tires.
For instance, the early Norwegian efforts were so hushed that they were kept a secret even from the Americans for the first two years.
Will they feel emboldened to report sexual harassment now that a powerful man has been held accountable after longtime accusations and hushed-up settlements?
Between these flares of violence, the director, Rod Blackhurst, maintains an almost hushed atmosphere as Ann (Lucy Walters) tends to her meager forest encampment.
It seemed to barrel through the palm trees and mud-brick houses that dotted the hushed riverbank, casting a white beam on the water.
"I learned this morning that we had not heard back," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, told a hushed news conference.
Trump began his address in the hushed tones he employs when using a teleprompter, but soon he found his more familiar and louder voice.
Legislators in Richmond, the state capital, continued to go about their business amid hushed speculation that more politically damaging personal history would be exposed.
But the canvas's wildness is undercut by the hushed, dimly lit, dark gray room in which it hangs, the stodgiest of Old Master settings.
The court clerk began reading the verdict in the hushed courtroom — and mouths dropped as Anthony was acquitted of all the serious charges against her.
The crowd hushed as he said his sweet nothings and she stood back bashfully, and gasped when he went for the kiss – and was denied.
For about five minutes, Tebow and Nel-Peters talked about their relationship and its future in hushed tones before Tebow, 31, dropped to one knee.
For about five minutes, Tebow and Nel-Peters, 23, talked about their relationship and its future in hushed tones before Tebow, dropped to one knee.
It's a reaction that has been shared by many of my friends, peers and colleagues in conversations over text, on Slack and through hushed whispers.
The fashion industry has seen an internal reckoning in recent seasons; diversity of all kinds is flourishing, and once-hushed voices are now being heard.
Packed with hit after hit, it's the ultimate introduction to the work of a man talked about in clubland with the most hushed of tones.
Pfitzner sprayed down my notebook with antiseptic and led me down a warm, hushed hallway to a room full of plexiglass mouse boxes on racks.
How many came from a generation that used to call it, in hushed tones, the "c-word," as if it were a mystical, omnipotent force?
It's an abstract object of art, best looked at from afar and discussed in hushed tones of quiet reverence — but oddly, never to be felt.
"Their first stop along the way is when they're packed in ice, typically at the airhead," Kelly says to a hushed White House press corps.
"To play it, you don't feel like you're in this strange world, like you walked into a library and everyone's being incredibly hushed," he says.
Worse, when Mr. Momtazi later asked one of the real estate brokers about the farm, he said he was told it was a hushed affair.
The occasional public allegation is easily hushed up: Indian newspapers rely on access to Bollywood players to fill their entertainment pages, which attract lucrative advertising.
"You just have to face the reality," Ms. Lee said, after passing through a darkened, hushed room that included a pair of child-size shackles.
Away from the news cameras that normally track his every interaction, he enters rooms thick with grief and the hushed voices of people in shock.
But the expectation of his impending departure has escaped the hushed confines of Ryan's inner circle and permeated the upper-most echelons of the GOP.
Shame, revulsion and something like disbelief mingle in her hushed recital of the brutality she was forced not just to witness but to share in.
It often feels like all three are hatching the same schemes, raising the same eyebrows, muttering the same hushed whispers and innuendos over and over.
It might only be talked about in hushed tones by the few people who know it exists, but at least it is still talked about.
In the early going, when the stories are new and fresh, it's easy to get lots of viewers, who follow those stories with hushed anticipation.
Before Mum's abuse drove her to run away when I was in seventh grade, we traded observations in hushed whispers and forged an iron alliance.
Worse, when Mr. Momtazi later asked one of the real estate brokers about the farm, he said he was told it was a hushed affair.
Spa music soothes you when you enter, and even the host is more hushed and calm as you enter the bus and find your bed.
Still, what stood out was Mr. Nézet-Séguin's conducting, attentive to hints of Ravel and Debussy in the music and the delicate, hushed, haunting chords.
The beginning of the Sibelius concerto was deliberate and hushed, a mist through which the soloist, Augustin Hadelich, pulled a soft, silvery thread of sound.
The hushed reverence with which everyone treated the girls, lying side by side in the same position, reminded me of some sort of pagan ritual.
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The plot to kill the Queen was hushed up for over a decade before New Zealand media began reporting on it in the mid-90s.
This lovely book combines the fun of a sleepover with the sweetness of a moment of hushed gratitude for all the wonders of the world.
THE CROWD Barflies on a recent Thursday were mostly men in their 30s, suited up and seated two by two, speaking in hushed business tones.
Given that their songs are hushed confessionals it was all too easy to take their lyrics as darts striking at the core of their partnership.
Her voice is sumptuous and her phrasing is curvaceous and conversational in "Noise," a hushed ballad that moves with the rhythm of breathing, not machines.
She represents these stock images with hushed, well-groomed, pedantically slow folk-rock that sweeps piano chords and guitar twang into a soothing organic blend.
Any North Korean voices promoting a softer line will have been further hushed by the personal offense Kim has taken and by his forceful rhetorical pushback.
For example, John F. Kennedy's treatment for Addison's disease, a potentially debilitating illness, was hushed up but did not materially affect his presidency in any way.
At one point, before a hushed crowd that consisted largely of older voters, the former vice president nearly cried into the microphone recalling his son's diagnosis.
Simone and Jake (Tom Sturridge) are back from their Cape Cod adventure and, as per usual, they're completely engrossed in their hushed conversation in the corner.
It's a three-track portrait of an artist unafraid to toy with songwriting convention through surprising, off-kilter instrumentation and a hushed, Arthur Russell-like vocal.
There's no denying their originality — no other band assembles slithering acoustic guitar strings and antiseptic keyboard hum into such hushed, mesmerizing, immaculately interlocking clockwork ticky-tock.
Muting the usual cacophony of manipulative musical cues and assaultive sound effects — for long stretches, the movie is almost hushed — Mr. Mikkelsen stirs claustrophobia into panic.
As conducted by Andrew Litton, the music was newly vibrant: agile in its scurrying, full-bodied in its braying and sweet thunder, hushed in its lullabies.
James Halliday, the would-be Willy Wonka played by Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg's frustrating adaptation of Ready Player One, speaks very quietly, a hushed monotone.
From the melodica-led "Privacy," to the hushed whispers of "Scorpions," to the shoulder hunch of "Building a Ramp," the tracks are simple but insanely catchy.
But our sources among EU officials and national diplomats made clear in hushed conversations and text messages that it had gone "very badly" for her indeed.
I really loved Miguel Sapochnik's direction, which gave us moments that were simultaneously hushed and taut, full of a sense of both inevitability and real dread.
The hushed, subterranean Le Spa, which touts Valmont and Phytomer treatments and a eucalyptus-scented steam hammam, sat empty; I couldn't find anyone to answer questions.
There is a hushed, meditative reverence to the Wooster Group's show "Early Shaker Spirituals," a mesmeric combination of traditional music and dance, based on a recording.
The Pembroke Room at The Lowell, a landmark 1920s hotel on New York City's Upper East Side, has the rarefied, hushed air of a traditional tearoom.
That morning the televisions in a hushed newsroom at J.P.L. had Uranus on one screen and the Y-shaped cloud of the explosion on the other.
For nearly four decades, his lyrical columns for The Times brought readers to the banks of clear-running streams and the hushed glades of majestic forests.
In some ways, the School of Computer Science feels like any college campus environment, with its hodgepodge of new and classical architecture and hushed study zones.
Hushed enables you to call and text using a private number, which you can calibrate with hundreds of area codes from across the U.S. and Canada.
When Korbin made it to the bathroom stalls, the teacher locked the door behind him — and they waited, in hushed excitement, until the drill was over.
Huddled in the dark, trying to keep quiet to avoid the gunman, students called their parents to tell them in hushed voices that they loved them.
When I first arrived at the camp to report this story, a few people told me, in hushed voices, to see if she was down to talk.
Taleb has suggested that higher status people shout less, talk in more hushed tones, and are more likely to whisper, to grab the attention of the crowd.
Blue Origin just launched its reusable suborbital rocket New Shephard, marking the first time the Jeff Bezos-led company livestreamed one of its usually hushed test flights.
In hushed tones away from the ears of the camp's guards, he described what is happening in his hometown, which lacks electricity, water, any hospitals or schools.
In her recently published memoir And Now I Have Everything, Meaghan O'Connell offers a "radical" alternative to the hushed, reverential language typically used to speak about motherhood.
In reality, that mom could have been feeling a combination of those things, and eye rolls and hushed comments don't do anything to make her feel supported.
This is a league with head coaches like Steve Kerr, proudly outspoken on domestic issues (and often against Trump) but who have hushed up over Hong Kong.
There is an air of hushed anticipation among the men: small talk, warm air blown into cupped hands, frequent glances up and down the otherwise quiet street.
On our blocks, local corner boys whose school days were long behind them voiced their desires — sometimes in hushed tones and other times where anyone could hear.
With A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Obaid-Chinoy shines a light on a crime that too often remains a hushed problem within families.
Clad in robes and hoods, the women must speak in hushed tones of reverence, saying things like "Under his eye" to indicate their fidelity to the rules.
"All of time standing still / life's a dream, nothing's real" McMullen sings in hushed and contained voice, as he sets his hair on fire with a candle.
The Maverick X was made by Roka Sports, a company that describes its product in (presumably) hushed tones as something will "liberate" swimmers and "revolutionize" the wetsuit.
Frontman Gared O'Donnell still keeps his voice right in his trademark sweet spot—a hushed scream or a loud whisper, depending on how you look at it.
" Speaking in abnormally hushed tones, in contrast to her fiery and impassioned style on the campaign trail, she told supporters "we have together ushered in something incredible.
Sorely missing are Carpenter's moderation and patience, the restraint that turned simple shots of a darkened stairway and a hushed, leaf-lined street into dread-filled spaces.
The work that evoked sobriety — much less recovery — had often faded into obscurity, out of print or unpublished, lodged deep in file boxes in hushed university libraries.
Compared to the New Nordic restaurants that have become Denmark's culinary signature, Frederikshoj, with its white tablecloths, quilted leather chairs and hushed dining room, feels comfortingly retro.
And pass them along to their friends with hushed admiration and excitement for everything the mysterious Ferrante (whose real identity is — at least officially — a secret) accomplished?
His delivery is hushed, sometimes almost whispered, playing up both his genuine sensitivity and his faux, schticky sensitivity that thinly disguises some of the sharper punch lines.
Or the 200-year-old fluted thresholds, against which women in tight shorts leaned and made a variety of hushed kissing sounds as I walked past them.
As we removed our dirt-caked sneakers, slipped on flip flops and entered the nursery in Juba Teaching Hospital's newborn ward, a hushed tension washed over us.
Having participated in the ceremony, Gjelstad felt called to learn more about the older women — the islands' "hushed culture bearers" — and document their stories for future generations.
The mood is hushed and expectant; and as we file into the sticky seats of the Comedy Theatre there is a thrilling anticipation burbling in the air.
The talk of war and invasion proceeds in platitudes and snippets of propaganda; here and there, German atrocities perpetuated farther east are spoken of in hushed tones.
For a small, one-time fee, Hushed gives you a second phone number that you can access over Wi-Fi or data from their simple, secure app.
And the horribly high casualty rate, coupled with a continuing but hushed problem with desertion, creates a constant struggle to train wave after wave of new recruits.
I half expected Ignatik to shoo me away when I approached him and asked, in a hushed tone, if he had any personal experience with match-fixing.
Alone at a baby grand piano, he played low, slow, quiet single notes, barely audible, like the tolling of a distant bell, until the room was entirely hushed.
Sumiyoshi TaishaWander through the hushed, beautiful gardens of this ancient temple and you may be lucky enough to bear witness to a spiritually awakening ceremony you'll never forget.
" On Wednesday, the GOP nominee spoke during a campaign event at the Polish National Alliance, using what the Chicago Tribune described as "very muted if not hushed tones.
The air around us filled with all sorts of languages, and while the volume was loud, it was also strangely hushed; an attempt at respectful quiet, I think.
Anyway, the rumors were hushed up by the authorities at Plainfield in the hope the school would go on to be a football power in 1942 and beyond.
For every actress hushed by a six-figure settlement, thousands more women are silenced by the threat of losing a minimum-wage job their families need to survive.
Everyone who was not staring at a screen spoke in hushed tones, though it's possible that they just didn't want me to overhear them talking about the war.
I was standing off to the side of the showroom at CES while engineers worked in hushed voices, fussing over a $23,000 artificial intelligence-powered laundry-folding machine.
"When you find them, you will kill them," Underwood says in a hushed tone to a man holding a packet with the word SECRET marked in big letters.
It was a word I only heard used in hushed voices, a lexical object that rolled under tables and between coats in the cloak room at primary school.
There is a reason we don't celebrate a woman in the same hushed tones as Paul Kelly and Nick Cave: women and GNC artists are given one face.
According to Blackstone, the economic boom-time of the 1980s, along with its focus on women "having it all," re-hushed the childfree—though it didn't extinguish them.
What was supposed to be a relatively quick procedural vote had dragged out for almost an hour, stuck in limbo as GOP leaders were huddled in hushed conversations.
Not so much world-weary as cosmically tired, Harrison's storytelling is sometimes hushed and sometime sonorous, rolling out on waves of complicated syntax that are averse to commas.
On Wednesday, as lawyers, reporters and a handful of family members waited in the hushed courtroom for the judge to take the bench, Mr. Dear continued his outbursts.
Behind a softly lit control panel, hushed and expectant, the director Luca Guadagnino sat with editors and listened for breath noises at the start of his new film.
Then the rumors started streaming in, cold wisps out from the ground: a media blackout, a hushed-up announcement—she was dead already, and they weren't telling us.
Still, the record has dozens of guest stars, from the comic Jerrod Carmichael to the electro-pop veteran La Roux, scattered across lo-fi interludes and hushed refrains.
At the hushed German cemetery, signposts point the way to Iraq, Yemen and other sites of gas attacks like those the soldiers here both launched and died from.
But Mr. Denk also brought real lyric beauty to the Adagio, and gave a hushed, transporting encore of the Andante from Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16 (K. 545).
In this world, a dinner at a strip club becomes a low-key conversation over hushed music about the importance of grooming and how good the shrimp is.
I'm frequently approached by colleagues, usually women, who ask me about quitting Twitter with hushed titillation, as if I've escaped a cult or broken a particularly seductive taboo.
"We're back in hushed tones," Erin Darcy, an abortion rights activist, said in an interview at her home near the harbor city of Galway on Ireland's west coast.
The bridge's location, hushed, lush and sometimes still, fits the description of what the pagan Celts called a "thin place," a mesmerizing spot where heaven and earth overlap.
The free-flowing pair sometimes seems to move as one 10-string instrument, especially on "Unquity Road," which breathes with the hushed serenity of a Missouri summer night.
I lack the spiritual gene, and I can grow resentful of novels that lead me into a cave of superstition and hushed ignorance and then seal the entrance.
Her later poems are filled with a quiet, tentative gratitude—like the passengers looking at the moose, hushed in wonder at the things that save them from themselves.
"Won't it make the Indians mad to have to — " she tries to ask at one point about the forced marches west, only to be hushed by her father.
A riot of flag-waving, middle-aged men and sweaty, red-shirted MAGA families peeked into the lobby of the Trump International Hotel to gawk in hushed delight.
On Tennis MELBOURNE, Australia — It felt a particularly long way from the hushed tones of Wimbledon's Centre Court, even a long way from the rowdier Wimbledon food court.
"You do contemplate suicide," the winner of 63 Olympic medals told a hushed audience at the fourth annual conference of the Kennedy Forum, a behavioral health advocacy group.
The most satisfying part of that evening was the Prokofiev concerto with the ebullient pianist Simon Trpceski, who gave a performance that encompassed cartoonish humor and hushed lyricism.
After a 130-mile journey, I entered a hushed space where other visitors were submerged in the protean matter — fuzzy, ethereal, soupy, psychedelic — emanating from Turrell's light installations.
Despite the positive atmosphere in San Jose, some developers expressed concerns about Apple's dominance in hushed tones at the conference or at unofficial side-events held in adjoining hotels.
" From the bridge — the hushed control center of the ship, lit only by the red glow of the radar — the order was given to "fall back, nice and calm.
A DSLR camera was brandished with the kind of seriousness usually reserved for combat zones; voices were hushed; awe and fear instilled in each and every one of us.
Screeching subway cars and honking taxi cabs are hushed by the Elite 85h, and anything that's less of an assault to your ears is, of course, dampened even more.
Google Voice is, of course, not the only service that offers additional numbers for your phone; there are other services out there as well, such as Hushed and Burner.
Apple's hushed ambitions to disrupt the automotive industry were heralded as the next big "wow" for fans that relish "one more thing" at the end of flashy debut events.
It means that, in addition to a knockoff market that isn't slowing down, luxury brands have yet another competitor to stave off: the no longer-hushed world of consignment.
"The left isn't really talking about diverse things—and that's the draw for these young kids—except identity," he told me in hushed tones, scanning the room for interlopers.
The older girl knew that the two adults were nervous, because they didn't stop smoking and arguing in hushed voices while the girls watched "Snow White" over and over.
Cohen will tell lawmakers that he was in a meeting with Trump that summer when Trump Jr. walked behind his father's desk and the two spoke in hushed tones.
Appearing before a hushed gallery that was filled to capacity, Justice Chun announced that he found the defendant, Mayer Herskovic, 24, guilty of unlawful imprisonment, menacing and gang assault.
"I'll never get over this pain," Roy's 16-year-old sister Camdyn said Thursday as part of her impact statement, her hushed words dripping out between floods of tears.
Michael comes scampering down the ladder to relay some information in hushed tones before heading back up, and it reminds me of some sort of French resistance comedy sketch.
The loudspeakers have been hushed, and the hawkers have packed up their wares or closed their doors, since the use of electricity and the transaction of business are forbidden.
Today the spell of Cage's hushed score is still present on a live 1983 recording included in the 10-CD boxed set "Music for Merce" (New World Records, 2010).
The entire evening had just one hitch: Just before the ceremonial breaking of the glass, the shriek of a small child tore through the hushed room like a thunderclap.
"The resulting product is huge in scope, with 23 tracks clocking in at an hour and 10 minutes, but is unnervingly hushed in execution," said John Garrett in PopMatters.
While wistful, the music shifts through moods and styles that alternately suggest tender folk songs, gently swaying dances, bursts of hushed busyness, bluesy melodies, even twangy hints of hoedown.
There's also the physical reminder of a stark class divide between those who visit and those who live here: the Amangiri resort, which locals talk about in hushed tones.
Prominent venture capitalists have in recent months raised hushed questions about the morals of taking on funding from a nation where, for instance, until recently women could not drive.
Inside, a half-dozen more steps, wooden and creaky, delivered you into one big hushed room with high windows and dark wood floors and bookshelves lining all four walls.
The crowd was hushed for the starting gun with a "shhh" from the public-address system, then built itself up again as the six skaters spun in counterclockwise ovals.
Other services, such as Hushed and Burner, also provide separate phone numbers for reasonably low fees; they market themselves as alternatives for users who want temporary, easily deleted numbers.
"Behind that is the holiest of holies," Mr. Asmro explained in a hushed tone — replicas of the ark of the covenant that only the priests were allowed to view.
The town was cold and hushed — almost everything was closed for the holiday — and Ms. Williams saw in it the refuge she had been seeking for the past decade.
Other than the occasional group of hushed and worn-out people who would suddenly file out from the front line, the streets were almost devoid of a human presence.
In spectral, delicately comic videos, often with hushed narration and ambient sound, she explores mortality, mental illness, humans' obligation to animals, and the role of women in Thai society.
"Some of the thrills are the hushed kind, like the way black garlic, pomegranate and lime support the crisp skin and white flesh of sautéed black bass," he wrote.
The birdsong of earlier had hushed, but there was new magic — a riot of fireflies, cavorting in what felt like a show for just for the guards and me.
Her childish irreverence for authority made me realize the way even liberals give Mr. Trump too much importance by parsing every tweet and speaking about him in hushed tones.
To assert that comedy should come nowhere near Holocaust narratives is to prescribe (or worse yet assume) just one way to react to them: with hushed, tear-soaked reverence.
Credit...Michael Christopher Brown IT WAS NEARLY closing time at the museum: Long shadows had already devoured most of downtown Los Angeles and the hangar-like space was hushed.
One Hushed account gives you access to one lifetime number, and you can access a combination of 6,000 SMS or 1,000 phone minutes per year — without the monthly fees.
But the book has been overtaken by events, with witnesses testifying under oath in the House's impeachment proceedings about presidential wrongdoings that A Warning hints at in hushed tones.
As he sat with his acoustic guitar in his lap, singing the ballad "Tears in Heaven," that familiar, dusty yelp crept back into his voice, and the audience hushed.
The 43-year-old conductor captured the hushed eeriness of the work's first few measures, in which the orchestra suggests the somber, mysterious mood that pervades the entire opera.
A WOMAN IS NO MAN By Etaf Rum In a hushed bedroom, a woman smears foundation over the bruises on her daughter-in-law's face, layer after silencing layer.
After Ms. Rhodes Benjamin finished her first poem, and the instruments hushed, Mr. Wimberly got up and walked across the room to two large bells hanging in a corner.
This is the frustration with the HDJ-X10s: they can be lovely when your environment is hushed, or when you're listening to songs that have been made with every care.
It's less a performance than an exercise in kinetic energy: Bodies bowing, lower and lower, to the snowballing rhythm of "Dripping Sun," the groove militant and hushed with organic tension.
If it's missing, you can download it from the Play Store.) If you use a virtual phone number (such as Google Voice or Hushed), you may also run into trouble.
After weeks of hushed negotiations, GOP lawmakers this week touted a new amendment to a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare that was yanked from the House floor last month.
The crowd hushed when Wells arrived at the front, flanked by his dog Cody, who was identified as such by numerous rapt onlookers as though the recognition might be reciprocal.
The hushed nighttime streets of Paris in the winter become a place where most characters are capable of a return to innocence, or at least to a kind of honesty.
Watch the body language among the would-be Democratic presidents: Who's talking to whom, who gets or gives a hug or a kiss, whose heads are bowed in hushed conversation.
When he finds out the amount of time allotted for the interview, his hushed demeanor quickly transitions to an anxious one; he clearly isn't interested in long conversations with strangers.
Though wise for not attempting to recreate the energy that fuels a presidential address to a packed congress, Sebelius' hushed tones and prolonged pauses had viewers scrambling for their pillows.
" He added to the hushed committee room that, "Honestly, as between really bad and catastrophic, I said to my team, we got to walk into the world of really bad.
Nothing much is really going on in these moments, to affect the larger narrative, but the camera lingers and the music slowly swells to lend a sense of hushed importance.
She is down to talk about people's sexual preferences and approaches to relationships because that is the best way to keep the conversation free and expressive, versus awkward and hushed.
Nearly everyone I spoke to about Rhodes used the phrase "mind meld" verbatim, some with casual assurance and others in the hushed tones that are usually reserved for special insights.
It's a hushed, intractably sad scene, drawn in precise detail — naturalism I wouldn't expect from Ms. Ruhl, whose imagination is among the most adventurous at play today in the theater.
A scene in which Ms. Lipstadt and her legal team visit Auschwitz shrouded in winter fog injects a note of elegiac sadness that is deepened by Howard Shore's hushed score.
They also highlight an antiquated reporting system that discourages some victims from speaking out, leaving many professionals on the Hill to rely instead on hushed advice from peers and mentors.
Its goal was to downplay art's status as an awe-inspiring, highly valuable commodity produced by an artistic genius and destined to sit, remote and untouchable, in a hushed museum.
The audience remained hushed for Mr. Obama's remarks, listening as the president turned to address the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, who was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 2012.
And with the media industry braced for a wave of consolidation, we can expect plenty of potentially important hushed conversations at the Sun Valley Lodge or on the resort's patio.
Critic's Notebook Tennessee Williams's most reliable instrument of release — and torture — glows impiously in the hushed white gallery of the Morgan Library & Museum, like a neon sign in a church.
Wimberly's work confidently transitions between meaningful conversation and pages of hushed action, yet despite not being particularly dialogue-heavy, it reads as one of the densest works in recent memory.
Mr. Abloh envisioned a fragrance so delicate that it would exist only in the background, a scent so hushed and unassuming that it was barely detectable to the human nose.
Hushed electric piano noodling spirals all over the place on "Hashtag," a sleek downtempo track whose relaxed hop shares a contained energy, compressed through superficial quietude, with Jonghyun's breathy murmur.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai military conscripts face widespread violence and sexual assaults, Amnesty International said in a report on Monday, calling the abuse institutionalized and systematically hushed up by the hierarchy.
Children who notice varying traits shouldn't be hushed but rather engaged, specifically with questions about why they think differences in appearance occur and what similarities they might see as well.
Ms. Warren's campaign is far from dead, but it is now being discussed in the hushed tones reserved for the critically ill, and her path to a comeback is unclear.
The questions I love are the ones that happen in the hushed tones of a real conversation, often at the coffee shop or even around the warmth of a fire.
As the season neared its end, she returned to one of her supreme roles, the hushed Divertissement Pas de Deux in Act Two of Balanchine's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Mendelssohn).
"Which is weird, because I have to have it taken a lot," he said a short while later, his voice hushed as he ascended the spiral staircase to the galleries.
And the uncertainty remains something that can and will be exploited -- by Trump publicly and by her likely Democratic opponents in more hushed conversations with key donors and party activists.
Arenas far from the home court — on scouting trips to college towns and other countries, perhaps — are where hushed conversations with N.B.A. colleagues beget rumored possibilities and, occasionally, a blockbuster deal.
On Friday night, a concert at the Farmers Market had continued as planned, though the mood was hushed and somber, said Trish Rovito, a city administrator who helps run the market.
When I was growing up in the 1980s, someone's sexuality was only spoken about in hushed voices, as if the person had a disease they didn't want others to know about.
We met in a private hotel room at Mandalay Bay, but she still speaks in hushed tones and can't bring herself to utter Trump's name a single time during our interview.
But this hushed operation can be difficult to hear from more than a few feet away, making it a deadly problem for the vision-impaired who can't see a vehicle approaching.
White House officials spoke in hushed tones and anxious whispers this week following a series of stunning firings by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster that left the staff wondering: Who's next?
A hushed silence, compared to the thumping bass and raucous crowd in the dining room, hangs over the production line as staff painstakingly position coriander leaves and edible flowers on plates.
However, the country's state broadcaster EBC didn't re-broadcast images of his gesture and some people watching it live and cheering quickly hushed when they saw the gesture, the AP reports.
Seriously, though, the hushed, cool atmosphere of your local art museum is a great place to be reflective, take in great works of creativity, and churn through all those deep thoughts.
His raps—which seldom take pauses—are hushed flows that rarely line up with the beat and are clear derivatives of Atlanta rapper Hoodrich Pablo Quan (who he's had affiliations with).
But fresh off defeating Democrat Rob Quist in Montana's special election, Gianforte turned somber and hushed the crowd of cheering supporters in front of him: Last night, I learned a lesson.
Though she'd not directly spoken about it, there had always been hushed conversations from practitioners and fans of dancehall on why certain artists were able to do well opposed to others.
The click-clack hum had also hushed; this section of the lab contained a state-of-the-art 3D sound chamber where Intel is studying dynamic audio for merged reality environments.
As the name suggests, it's a place for secrets and hushed conversations, and there was a time when it wasn't uncommon to find a president or two having a drink there.
All June learns from her hushed chat at the market is that the old Ofglen is now Ofsteven but her real name is Emily, and that the resistance is called Mayday.
The hushed minimalism of his shooting and editing feels inspired by the early films of David Gordon Green, the confrontational, personal stories of the Dardenne brothers, or Richard Ayoade's stellar Submarine.
Some staff working under the lab's director, Joichi Ito, referred to Epstein as the popular "Harry Potter" villain, whose name was feared or taboo, exemplifying the hushed attitude around his involvement.
Tucked into a corner of an upscale mall next to a record store, the low-lit restaurant gives off a hushed air of mystery with its black marble and velvet surfaces.
The music's dazed elation indeed recalls a long, languorous day spent in bed melting into your lover; the band's preferred mode is total rapture, hushed because love is a sacramental ritual.
In that quarter-century, Low (which now includes bassist Steve Garrington) has consistently mesmerized their fans with music that at first helped launch the slowcore movement with its hushed, minimal arrangements.
Their hushed admiration of a master realizing his vision — no matter how minute the detail — is a sign of the degree to which he is the driving force behind the project.
Contributing Opinion Writer Not long ago I found myself inside the hushed and high-vaulted interior of a nursing home for geriatric books, in the forgotten city of St.-Omer, France.
Even speaking in hushed tones to a friend at a crowded cafe might not be enough to protect your obscurity if cameras are someday equipped with lip-reading artificial intelligence software.
With anxiety rising in New York, rumors began to circulate in hushed whispers, group chats and on social media that officials planned to shut down public transit and quarantine the city.
He had suffered a heart attack and was on a ventilator in the hushed intensive care unit of Mount Carmel West, a Catholic hospital in a working-class corner of Columbus.
It was, as you would imagine, a room full of blazers and elbow patches, most of them worn by men, with hushed conversations over glasses of champagne and stiff upper lips.
STERLING, Va. — The usual atmospherics of a golf tournament were all there: quiet claps and distant roars, the metallic clink of a well-hit drive, hushed voices suited to a library.
Media reports at the time, which refer to Lewis as an "anti-royalist," said the attempt on the Queen's life was hushed up for fear it would jeopardize future royal visits.
The sense of shared compassion evoked — and sometimes expressed, through cathartic tears or a collective hushed silence — can in itself provide solace, binding us together in a feeling of shared humanity.
Residents of Gambia talked about Mr. Jammeh only in hushed tones, and rarely in public, and even some members of the diaspora said they were convinced he was monitoring their communications.
Here, her spare agglutinations of rocks, minerals, industrial objects, and rope are displayed in the form of a hushed, shrine-like still life installation, Mineral Still Life (Cobalt and Nickel) (21985).
While my cousins and I played, our parents discussed serious matters in hushed Tagalog: pooling money to lend to a struggling household or planning visa applications for those still in the Philippines.
" When the orchestra tried to play him offstage, he hushed the conductor and continued, saying, "For 25 years, I have handcrafted very strange little tales made of motion, color, light, and shadow.
A handful of people arrived with cameras, ostensibly for the protest, but many who stopped whispered questioningly about the purpose of the performance, and were informed in hushed voices of Choe's history.
Kraft pressed a button and popped me into the hushed, reverb-rich world of Carnegie Hall, and I could've been transported to the EDM paradise of Coachella's Sahara Tent a minute later.
When they run into a real problem — often via a hairpin tonal turn that few comedies can pull off — the audience's hushed silence makes it even clearer how devastating the moment is.
The hushed music as she entered the garden was handled with particular elegance by the orchestra, conducted in both works with an ear for transparent textures and fleet motion by Pierre Vallet.
In fact, it was my experience sitting among these young Black women, watching their reactions and listening to their only partly hushed side-conversations during the film that impacted me the most.
"Shocking to see in an oil painting in a major museum, the invectives made public the hushed language of hate," writes Claude J. Summers in The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts.
The dust from the rubble of the destroyed mosque still hung thick; bullet holes marked the walls of modest dwellings; people spoke in hushed tones of blood flowing into the Sarayu River.
On Wednesday, with perfect early-summer weather and an estimated crowd of 50,000 gathered on the Great Lawn, the first sounds were hushed strings providing cushioning chords for Mr. Salters's elegant singing.
From her first song, "Madrugada sem Sono" ("Dawn Without Sleep"), Ms. João summoned a full spectrum of fado's tempestuous passions, from hushed melancholy to eruptive, rough-edged, tearful peaks to aching resignation.
Here, the hushed, introspective electronic softcore of the previous album's "Delicate" and this album's "Call It What You Want" has taken over, sustained throughout the whole album at a relaxed, masterful pitch.
The high point of Mr. Trifonov's magnificent performance of the Chopin Sonata came with the strange, brief final movement, a breathless blur of hushed runs that seem intent on avoiding harmonic moorings.
Floating at the water's edge, with the city beneath silenced by its remoteness, the pool's projection offers a vantage point of quiet calm; the hushed, hulking mountains seem to be all yours.
The waitress leads me to the table, her robes flowing behind her, and tells me in hushed tones that Xu Jing is en-route, as if announcing the coming of a high priest.
And after her violin bow was lowered, the last reverberations of its strings hushed, Urso "was obliged to reappear again and again" on the stage as the audience refused to end their applause.
There's myriad videos on YouTube of people speaking in hushed voices, or touching and crinkling specific objects, that people watch because they like the sounds and feeling of someone paying attention to them.
In 2010 (pictured above) this extra area was but a spare and melancholy tableau meant, perhaps, to elicit a hushed contemplation of Costco, where each of the items seemed to have been purchased.
Most often your only recourse is to hide in the corner and have a hushed conversation with your "wine friend" about which bottle to get so you don't seem like a complete novice.
Conte addressed the hushed crowd at the site where a large section of the 1.2-kilometre (1,100-yard) motorway viaduct, built in the 1960s, crashed about 50 meters (165 feet) to the ground.
There's just testimony in a hushed hearing room and two soft-spoken anchors at humdrum desks, trying to figure out what the president knew, when he knew it and whether democracy still worked.
Conte addressed the hushed crowd at the site where a large section of the 1.2-kilometre (1,100-yard) motorway viaduct, built in the 1960s, crashed about 50 metres (165 feet) to the ground.
"In the offline world when we think about privacy, it's easy to know what to do — you speak in hushed tones or you close your shades or you close your door," Decker said.
I hobbled over to him (I was using a cane due to an injury at the time, which made me feel even more pathetic and powerless) and, in hushed tones, explained the situation.
The spoken-word bits at the beginning serve to veil the song in hushed intimacy; her Auto-Tuned garble ("demuh-uh-uh-un") signals that she can't quite put her feelings into words.
An hour later I was back at work, in a hushed hospital ward filled with malnourished children with skeletal faces, hanging between life and death for want of money and a good meal.
It's a world that ends, in his telling, with both a bang and a whimper: apocalyptic brass chords alternating with a hushed stillness, off which rises a mist of cimbalom and suspended cymbal.
From the Persian rugs that lined the hallways to the plush wool floor covering in Mr. Immelt's office and private conference room, the carpets created the hushed atmosphere of a monastery or library.
In hushed conversations, they lay out a view of the office of the papacy as a figurehead, someone who will post the holy content the bosses (in this case, the other cardinals) demand.
Plus it saves me from having to make small talk (which I despise under the best of circumstances) with the people making a hushed, sorrowful buzz around me, a swarm of mourning locusts.
These songs flicker, keyed to the intricate chitchat between Buck Meek's acoustic and electric guitars, which entwine with a hushed lightness accentuated and often obliterated by blasts of electric noise that eventually subside.
Where Michelangelo turned his brawny saints into wrathful gods, Pontormo's figures, though illuminated in godliness, are invariably human in their proportions and hushed in their emotions, even in the most tragic of scenes.
They've gathered the requisite materials for a wall of sound and assembled them in reverent hushed miniature, as if constructing a sacred musical space too fragile for any sort of energy or dissonance.
Ekmeles opened with Mr. Sciarrino's "3 Canti Senza Pietre" (1999), hushed settings of fragments about knowledge and uncertainty in which the words seem to break up into denuded consonants and wordless yelps and sighs.
Switch to voiceOkay, this one's a bit of a cheat—it's actually operating your phone with no hands, and it's not going to work in a hushed library or on a noisy commuter train.
"What is a killer like you gonna do here?" cushions hushed growls under a jazzy, vamping beat; "In Ashes" blends righteous hollering with blastbeats; the three-part "Sacrilegium" suite is all sprightly retrofuturist synth.
As darkness fell, a few bystanders gathered around the bed of a pickup truck at a convenience store off Highway 87, just a few yards away from First Baptist Church, speaking in hushed whispers.
He constantly argues with his ex-boyfriend Ryan in hushed tones about an "incident" and even burns the letters Hannah left to him that explained what to do with the tapes in her absence.
Chilly drones, warm guitars and hushed cymbals lend it a sensory intimacy, while the lyrics express abstract emotion in vivid imagery, whether it's of tree bark or getting your head stuck in a banister.
The vocal arrangements on Reputation startle, especially when she sings over herself ("New Year's Day") or whispers a chorus you'd expect her to belt ("Dress"); the resulting hushed sense of intimacy is unexpectedly moving.
Liberals such as John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville are seen today as thinkers and writers of cerebral classics like "On Liberty" and "Democracy in America" that line the walls of hushed libraries.
Somehow the electronic gloss on Fin has the opposite effect, as muted keyboard glimmer and hushed vocal overdub cast shadows over musical elements that might otherwise shine brightly, suggesting depth beyond what's immediately audible.
The gas engine is also less taxed during acceleration and can shut off during light duty cruising, which makes the Range Rover Sport P2400e even more quiet than its already-hushed internal combustion siblings.
And An Insignificant Man, a documentary film by Shukla and Khushboo Ranka exploring the hushed topic of politics in India, is being released by VICE in the U.S. this week, and against all odds.
As he huddled with members in a series of hushed conversations while Thursday night turned into Friday morning, there were words that could almost be heard from above and even discerned through lip-reading.
While foremost an R&B singer, Kelela's avant-garde take on the genre, blending hushed vocals with a smooth, electro sound, made Take Me Apart one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2017.
The Afghan Kebab House, on Second Avenue at Seventy-first Street, a snug spot with rugs lining the walls, was so hushed that you could have eavesdropped on a table from across the street.
Euphoria excels at portraying those moments of hushed, immediate electricity between two people, the ones that hit you out of the blue as a teenager and don't happen as often as you get older.
At night, in hushed voices, they argue fiercely, but what they fight about remains vague, Luiselli preferring commentary on marital estrangement to its actual staging: My husband and I quarrel on our own bed.
One of the highlights of Monday night's MTV Video Music Awards in New York's Radio City Music Hall came from the behind-the-scenes livestream when Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande exchanged hushed words.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he brought this poignant and hushed lyricism to bear on a series of vibrantly contemplative paintings, many densely packed with compressed, circular figurations reminiscent of indigenous Australian dot paintings.
Sensing that the subject, long hushed, might put off her readers — and her employers at Scholastic magazine, where she worked at the time — she was reluctant to sign her posts, using only her initials.
Living In 7 Photos View Slide Show ' For decades, it was Fourth Avenue, a sleepy office district that was even more hushed at night when insurance companies and book publishers turned off the lights.
While the director's camera does not peer though that device again, the perspectives in this movie shift subtly but distinctly from adult's eye view, to child's eye view, to a hushed omniscience and back.
True, when the Astros' Yuli Gurriel cleared the bases on Tuesday with a double off David Robertson, giving Houston a 33-0 lead in the sixth inning of Game 4, the ballpark became hushed.
Over the band's hushed, stately backdrop, Matt Lowell sang in his androgynous high tenor, offering sympathy to some troubled soul: "Feel, feel alone/Try to fix it but it's never enough," one song observed.
"It's such a different vibe with the kids all here," said Mr. O'Brien, who added that he's still getting used to people strolling around the manicured grounds rather than quietly shuttling between hushed offices.
It's a closeness that seems to hold their bodies still during a hushed nighttime talk on a porch and that pulls them together at a drag race, under the gaze of silent white men.
And when Dark Fate does deign to explain what's going on, it delivers its exposition in a self-important, hushed, clumsy way, as if audiences should be astonished by the most basic plot revelations.
"It would be a betrayal of everything Reverend Pinckney stood for, I believe, if we allowed ourselves to slip into a comfortable silence again," the president told a hushed audience at the memorial service.
In 2013, Bergoglio, who seems more at home on the motley streets of Buenos Aires than in the hushed baroque chambers of the Vatican, travels to Rome to ask the pope's permission to retire.
I spent at least 10 minutes with my son in front of Jackson Pollock's "Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)," trying in a hushed, -nonobnoxious voice to talk him through the depths and dimension of it.
"Outcry and public pressure from the lobbying community has been mostly in hushed tones but release of the auto investigation should spur a new age in the Trump/business community dynamic," Ms. Treyz said.
So it makes sense that when the retro company Analogue announced it was stepping into the market back in October with the $190 Super NT, it was discussed in hushed tones by various press outlets.
Going from Grimes' manic singalongs to a hushed, seated Grouper performance was slightly jarring to the senses, but prolific Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris' music was the perfect fit for the cavernous, acoustically rich venue.
Hence the almost hushed tone of this production, which is directed by Nelson, who makes expert use of his now standard arrangement of tiny suspended microphones, which allow performers to whisper and still be heard.
Due to Andreessen Horowitz's big profile, the rule has been frequently criticized in hushed tones in Silicon Valley by diversity advocates as an example of the types of hurdles that women and minorities face professionally.
There is no sexy way to explain why Denver won Super Bowl 50, so CBS settled for the easy way, and Nantz did what he was born to do: talk about Manning in hushed tones.
Gage's film follows a group of seven Brooklyn girls over the course of three years, in a style so confessional as to seem pulled straight from my own high school late night hushed phone conversations.
Speaking to a hushed courtroom in the somber building that houses the Holy See's judicial offices, Judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre gave Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, a public relations specialist, a 10-month sentence, then suspended it.
Manafort came in smiling after Judge T.S. Ellis called the court to order, and then his lawyers hustled through a series of intense and hushed conversations with the judge, prosecutors and a court security officer.
The device connects to your smartphone and plays music at 54 decibels—the equivalent to the volume of a hushed conversation or listening to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works being played by your downstairs neighbor.
Death is a natural part of daily life, not some taboo subject to be spoken of in hushed terms, but a mystical experience to be honored and even celebrated just the same as a birth.
More from Theodore Schleifer of Recode: The rule has been frequently criticized in hushed tones in Silicon Valley by diversity advocates as an example of the types of hurdles that women and minorities face professionally.
From the strings' hushed hymn to nature at the opening, through invasion and battle music, to a glittering apotheosis, complete with bells, chimes and cymbals, Mr. Noseda drew polished playing through the full dynamic spectrum.
He never expected that it would take another three years, but his European critics were finally hushed when Teodosic led CSKA Moscow to the second-most prestigious club basketball championship in the world in 2016.
The seats are comfortable and supportive, the cabin in "quiet" mode is more hushed than any other supercar we've driven and the ride is compliant enough for trips to city centers or long highway cruises.
Flanked by two dancers and a saxophonist, he opened with a brief cover of jazz standard "Afro Blue," easily commanding the audience with Prince-influenced, pealing bass riffs and a hushed falsetto few artists can match.
Living isolated in the woods, a couple and their children have crafted a very hushed existence to keep the threat at bay: they walk barefoot, communicate via sign language, and play Monopoly with cotton game pieces.
Though centrally situated along a busy multilane boulevard, the hotel is soundproofed and feels insulated from the hubbub, thanks in part to its hushed, candlelit spaces and policy of admitting only hotel guests on the premises.
But in the lobby, the hushed talk was decidedly spicier, particularly given the looming appearance of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump for their historic summit in Singapore later this month.
Indeed, the film's first sequel (which is set partially in 2015, no less) deliberately goes about creating a world where the 1980s are remembered with the hushed fervor assigned to the 1950s in the original film.
With 23 minutes 222 seconds left in the third quarter, he hobbled off the court and into the locker room as the Oracle Arena crowd hushed and Twitter roared — with panic, with prayers, with armchair diagnoses.
In the hushed, carpeted courtroom, a judge sat on the terribly tall bench as three female prosecutors in sharp stiletto heels faced Raniere, and Moira Kim Penza, the lead prosecutor, wove an argument about her case.
For a president who hushed dissent in his reality-TV days with a simple "You're fired," the question is, how will he react if the would-be apprentices from Iran and Russia refuse to go quietly?
PHILADELPHIA — The scoreboard clock in a suburban gym was set at 33 seconds on Tuesday night, in honor of the jersey Kobe Bryant wore in high school, and ticked silently to zero before a hushed crowd.
When words are spoken at a whisper but the sound (designed by Mr. Herskovits with intricate precision) is as hushed and resonant as a voice in your ear, will it bring you closer to the drama?
While they haven't tested this specifically, the researchers also suggest that an attacker could use light commands to trigger Amazon's "whisper mode," which allows a user to speak commands and receive answers in a hushed tone.
In clubs and record stores around the world, the names of Detroit house luminaries are uttered in hushed tones, their self-released vinyl lining shop walls when available and fetching eye-popping prices online when not.
No photography is allowed (and you'll notice none of the Peruvian bundles in these press images), loud voices are hushed; it's a contrasting experience to, say, the frenzy around the Egyptian mummies at the British Museum.
A man who died young, with less than 15 years of earnest art-making under his belt, and a varied aesthetic record, Wojnarowicz doesn't fit tidily into history or into the hushed rooms of major institutions.
Washington (CNN)A frenzied 24 hours filled with hushed deliberations on Capitol Hill, senior-level meetings at the White House and back-to-back phone calls with the President came to an end Wednesday -- quietly and unceremoniously.
For instance, you can hear a hushed Busy Bee performance in the background while Fab 5 Freddy and Quinones play three card monty in an office, and the camera often cuts to the stage at full volume.
Struggling to answer questions, Cunningham told the court in hushed tones that she "has no money, hasn't worked in two years, her last job was as a hair stylist, and her home is in foreclosure," WGN9 reports.
But the legal tussle over a relatively obscure collection of drawings and photos has played out quietly, in lawyers' offices and hushed museum corridors in what Swiss courts call a "prosecution against unknown persons" by French authorities.
It was also here at the Brits, five years ago in February 2011, that she reduced the entire building to a hushed silence with a stripped down performance of "Someone Like You," accompanied by just a piano.
Based on the jittery reactions and hushed tones of the Pence associates I spoke with for this story, they are often walking on eggshells, worrying that something might be perceived as a slight to his mercurial boss.
The pieces that were the most singular naturally stood out, like Mr. Norman's "Still Life," a quiet piece exploring isolated notes and precise, hushed gestures; and Julia Wolfe's "Spinning Jenny," which was like avant-garde hoedown music.
Before a stadium hushed in adoration, he talked up his former secretary of state, rebuked the divisiveness of her Republican rival, Donald Trump, and sought to breathe self-confidence back into a country too short of it.
Many of the ugly episodes among venture partnerships are hushed up, but Xfund's situation has become public because of a restraining order application filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court by Mr. Chung against Mr. Van Vuuren.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — In a hushed courtroom, Michael T. Slager, a former North Charleston, S.C., police officer, was indicted here Wednesday on federal charges in the shooting death last year of Walter L. Scott, an unarmed black man.
That was a harsher line than Trump adopted within the hushed confines of the Palace Hotel on Thursday as he darted from meeting to meeting with Asian leaders, who fear the heightened rhetoric could result in war.
As Wray describes this long labor, his prose takes on a kind of hushed patience: They chanted through the afternoon until the third call to prayer and when their prayers were done they chanted on till dusk.
With its sagging, waterlogged analog synths lines and hushed spoken word, this one's pretty unified in sound and spirit, shot through with the wistful discontent that breathes life into so much of the world's best synth instrumentals.
It was co-written and composed by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk and it's a luscious, hushed track, with Gainsbourg singing in French, barely breaking from a whisper over two melancholy, interweaving keyboard lines.
Outside in the Rose Garden, reporters could see Denis R. McDonough, the White House chief of staff, emerge from the West Wing talking in hushed tones with Jared Kushner, the president-elect's son-in-law and adviser.
In Han Kang's propulsive, lacerating novel "The Vegetarian," translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith, the bloodless union between Yeong-hye, a hushed bookworm, and her largely indifferent husband ruptures when she ceases to be a carnivore.
On a recent rainy Wednesday, one of rock history's most polarizing figures was standing in the Issey Miyake flagship store in TriBeCa, a hushed, gallery-like space that exhibits avant-garde clothing by its namesake Japanese designer.
A tense detour on a space vessel in distress and a chase sequence on the moon are especially effective, just because they pop, creating visceral excitement as well as a necessary contrast to McBride's hushed, repetitive ruminations.
At a briefing in the Security Council earlier this year, she looked up from her notes at one point and snapped, in halting English, at a room full of hushed diplomats from the world's most powerful countries.
In other corners of the galleries' hushed, carpeted rooms, swans attacked, goats bleated, poppies unfurled and snakes slid over the rims of Chinese urns, frozen in gold but animated in time by Gouthière's almost obsessively executed observation.
The close of Act II, depicting the consequences, is wrenching: Miranda, her transformation underway, slowly departs, but engineers a reunion of the children — now motherless — with their father, as the populace expresses sorrow in a hushed ensemble.
On her third full-length release, Quiet Signs, she's created a hushed, ethereal space that's thoroughly modern, yet would seem right at home on a private press label out of the Haight Ashbury in the late 60s.
When SoftBank began plowing its $100 billion into Silicon Valley, it grew to dominate every Twitter debate or hushed conversation in tech's power corridors as either an articulation of Silicon Valley's hubris or of its sweeping ambition.
"Deadeye Dick" almost makes you feel like you're encountering these pieces for the first time — a rare feat, given the current blue-chip status of these artists and their hushed presentation in big museums and mega-galleries.
The Italian modernist composer Salvatore Sciarrino suggests what the extraordinary ritual must have been like in his hushed, twitchy and radically spare-textured "Infinito Nero: Estasi di un Atto" for soprano and eight instruments, composed in 1998.
Solange: A Seat at the Table (Saint/Columbia) On her first release in four years and her first full-length album in eight, Solange Knowles strings a set of hushed neosoul exercises around nine spoken-word interludes.
The level of boutiques and architecture was elevated about a decade ago, when the Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss firm Herzog and De Meuron designed a breathtaking store for Prada on the narrower, more hushed, eastern end of Omotesando.
But if we give up on them altogether, we will never get the ones that stick with us, that urge us into immediate action or sway us into hushed melancholy, that blossom in ways we could never expect.
Everything from the effects work to the hushed din of the battle when all seems lost to the camerawork in that impeccable uninterrupted take feels like the show heading out on the open road and hitting the gas.
There's something particularly undignified about getting messily murdered by something named Calvin, but that doesn't keep the ISS crew from consistently using the name in their hushed, serious voices as the creature picks them off one by one.
Thirty minutes away in Midtown Manhattan, Playbill's online newsroom was more hushed: A team of 11 writers and editors worked at one long table, quietly tapping out features and news stories, and creating videos and social media content.
They will start singing in hushed tones, and will get louder and louder until they're screaming over each other, waving their hands around in this way that does not happen in any other situation (you know the way).
At no point did any of my relatives tell me having a mental disorder, theoretically at this point, was unacceptable — I could tell by their hushed tones, and their quick dismissals, that mental illness was not an option.
None of us spent sweaty Saturday nights at 84 King Street, Lower Manhattan, watching Larry Levan play to a members-only crowd at the Paradise Garage, but it doesn't stop us speaking of the space in hushed tones.
In the deep end of a derelict swimming pool in Bergen, the musicians are about to play: striding on stage to their subterranean seats, they're surrounded by a hushed audience peering into the basin from the tiled sidelines.
The service is practiced and hushed—it would be strange to talk loudly here, and when a server chimed in to a dinner-table conversation on a recent evening it felt like she was breaking the fourth wall.
While the criminal probe is investigating Benalla's actions during the May Day protest, the inquiry by the opposition-led Senate is looking into the Elysee Palace's internal operations and whether it tried to keep the affair hushed up.
Outside, the paths are softened and hushed with ashy soil; inside, any boards that don't creak have been daubed with paint, and the Abbotts must pick their way from one to the next, as if on stepping stones.
Melding her voice into the keyboard shimmer on "The Body is a Blade," shrinking her voice to a hushed whisper on "Till Death" to suit the strummed gravitas, she feels the electric energy sputtering deep in her bones.
Sexual assault: Senator Martha McSally, Republican of Arizona and the first woman in the Air Force to fly in combat, told a hushed Senate hearing room that she had been sexually assaulted multiple times while serving her country.
A meditation on truth, fiction and DVD extras, Gordon Dahlquist's new play revisits a century-old murder in western China through a blockbuster movie, DVD interviews and, years from now in a future Brooklyn, one hushed, imperfect recap.
The unexpected battle for a top-four seeding — go ahead and throw the pesky Indiana Pacers into the conversation, too — has hushed the notion that this conference should just cease to exist after LeBron James's relocation to Hollywood.
The inquiry will aim to address "systematic, sustained" abuse in sports, which had been hushed up for generations by victims afraid of being banished from their sport, said Choi Young-ae, chairwoman of the National Human Rights Commission.
The chapters — narrated in the audio edition by Michael Curran-Dorsano with hushed intensity — alternate between the points of view of motherless, 12-year-old Peter and 5-year-old Pax, the fox Peter adopted as a kit.
For Mr. Rose, there was only one critical outburst during his impeachment announcement — from a New Jersey community organizer, who brought pamphlets from the pro-Trump LaRouche PAC — that was quickly hushed by the majority of the crowd.
Hours later, after an elaborate signing ceremony, they walked two by two through a hushed Capitol, carrying the articles — embossed with a gold seal and bearing the signatures of Ms. Pelosi and the House clerk — to the Senate.
"Lady Liberty shows that everyone and anyone can come in," said Jacob Kassin, 13, an eighth grader at the Magen David Yeshivah, who, unprompted, spoke harshly about Mr. Trump's proposed travel ban before being hushed by a teacher.
In hushed voices, they recounted carrying anti-government banners amid throngs of young protesters and escaping after the coup attempt and the brutal government crackdown that drove scores of youths into hiding to avoid militias and neighborhood informants.
His shop sits on one of the hushed streets typical in Carloforte—just off Sardinia's southwest coast on the tiny island of Isola di San Pietro—stocking the salted and tinned tuna products that hail from the fishing village.
The documents, which include four affidavits from former staffers, show that Conyers temporarily returned the employee at the center of the complaint to his office's taxpayer-funded payroll for her to receive more than $27,000 in a hushed settlement.
Spirit in the Dark casts Aretha as a lounge singer, sitting at the keyboard in the corner of a hushed jazz club, singing wounded laments about heartbreak while savoring the slow burn of her pattering, blues-inflected piano playing.
A judicial vicar from the southern Spanish diocese of Cartagena said in an interview with the newspaper El Pais on Monday that the church had hushed up abuse cases around the world in the twentieth century, including in Spain.
The deforestation and overdevelopment of Istanbul make the campus—verdant pine trees, Ottoman Empire–era buildings, wooden houses, hushed quiet—a gorgeous memory of the past, where the luxuriousness is not only a material matter but an environmental one.
The angst and the noise of garage rock gave way to more subdued sounds, as young musicians began making the kind of hushed, Internet-facing electronic pop that could be kept secret from adults, rather than weaponized against them.
Applicants are on their honor to fill it out honestly, in a hushed corridor on the third floor, but "it's not like the SAT," said an employee, Valerie Miller, as she straightened the selection at the Central Park kiosk.
Most controversially, perhaps, the movie confirms that Houston was romantically involved with Robyn Crawford, her "best friend," a relationship that was discouraged by her homophobic family and production team while it lasted and hushed up after it was over.
"In the hushed hours of morning while I'd been sleeping, my dad had picked lemons from the backyard, boiled sugar and eggs over the stove, pressed fingertips into crust along the edge, sprinkled powdered sugar on top," Miller recalled.
My mother should have recognized the Roth books as the real enemy, since the only thing worse than a deflowered daughter would be one encouraged to examine her ambivalence about the American Jewish experience outside our community's hushed auspices.
It was set down in front of Joshua, and as I looked around the table, now hushed, and saw the smiles on his friends' faces, I could almost see each of them as they might have been years earlier.
Mr. Khan, who now lives in Egypt, created a multi-speaker sound installation playing string instruments and hushed voices in a park at the extreme end of the Arsenale, the former naval site that hosts most of the show.
Dressed in a short-sleeved shirt and slacks, Schwartz appeared to be quietly talking to himself, with hushed, mumbled words, and for a long moment, it seemed as if he was some sort of monk, living in another, more esoteric world.
An established poet and community organizer, Woods first emerged as a musician as one half of M&O, her folk-soul collaboration with Owen Hill, with whom she defined a hushed, gentle sensibility informed by acoustic bedroom pop and children's music.
Last year, Mexico&aposs Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray went on a hushed mission to Cuba to urge the communist island&aposs leaders to use their influence to create a more meaningful dialogue in Venezuela, their main ideological and economic ally.
It hopes that success in Rome will help it win parliamentary elections that are set for 2018, so news that Raggi and her allies had hushed up the embarrassing legal probe dismayed its supporters and delighted its foes in equal measure.
When The Tale premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, it was those sequences, which run down its center like a wound, that I would hear people talking about afterward in the hushed tones of attendees at a funeral.
"I've found great clarity here in New Hampshire," he said into a hand-held microphone, the emotion swelling in his briny voice as he paced slowly across the cafeteria floor of Concord High School, surrounded by a hushed audience of 500.
Todd: I remember what a hugely thrilling moment it was in the season two finale, when Philip found Arkady in public and offered a hushed threat through clenched teeth about what would happen if the Center tried to recruit Paige.
It's an apt theme, for religious tropes often inspire such clarity in singer-songwriters, and this fragile, hushed, hymnlike album shares with Leonard Cohen's last few a forthright, openhearted quality: a need to speak plainly before the altar of performance.
It hopes that success in Rome will help it win parliamentary elections that are set for 13, so news that Raggi and her allies had hushed up the embarrassing legal probe dismayed its supporters and delighted its foes in equal measure.
The fatal attraction of man to sheep becomes quickly evident in the way he, as Dr. Ross, caresses her fluffy cheeks, his fingers moving slowly, his gaze distracted, his voice hushed and shy in the presence of such sheeply beauty.
The crowd was hushed for much of the first quarter until Afflalo made Kentavious Caldwell-Pope lose his balance and fall on a crossover dribble, before closing with a jumper that bounced high off the rim and fell through the net.
In the third of nine tight, hushed miniatures, a trill was stretched out, slowly obliterated; in the fourth, a chorale became immobile, yet still comprehensible; the last was a brushing arioso, bowed on the instruments' bodies, necks and tuning pegs.
It's the sort of street that falls deathly silent at 7 PM, at which point everyone spies on each other through the curtains and relays anything that could be considered "weird" behavior in hushed tones to the rest of the family.
It features seven hushed and haunted originals, with little more than a piano backing her and a 14-minute take on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," the Appalachian folk song that she pulverizes into noxious dust.
In hushed lunches at the Palm and over cocktails at Tower Bar, established men — producers, directors, executives — share resentment about aggressive efforts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to diversify its membership, which is overwhelmingly white and male.
In flashbacks to his childhood we meet Mandrick's abusive father and his loving mother, who take him on a trip into the hushed North Carolina woods, where they come upon the war-painted ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct.
A more versatile version of Google Voice, a Hushed Private Phone Line is designed to let you call and text using a totally private number, which you can calibrate with hundreds of area codes from across the U.S. and Canada.
We were able to make out only a couple of things: the serious tone of their conversation (they went from speaking in hushed whispers to raised voices at times) and the name of a notorious and powerful oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After weeks of rhetorical fire and fury, a handful of U.S. House members walked quietly across a hushed Capitol on Wednesday to deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate, paving the way for the trial of President Donald Trump.
Senators are confined to their desks, forced to stash their cellphones in cubbies and barred from speaking, even in hushed tones, as the seven House impeachment managers and Mr. Trump's defense team debate whether the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
Fangzheng Journal FANGZHENG, China — At the end of a narrow road in Fangzheng, a remote town in northeastern China, next to a hushed forest of birch and pine trees, stands the locked iron gate of the Sino-Japanese Friendship Garden.
Other significant compositions, including the sine-wave meditation "Points" (1974) and the hushed vowel-sound poem "I come out of your sleep" (1979), reflected a philosophy of composition that she came to espouse, one that incorporated psychoacoustics and biofeedback techniques.
The Mets, meanwhile, were hushed on offense by Marlins starter Adam Conley, a 6-foot-3 left-hander who has enjoyed pitching at Citi Field — he entered the day with 13 scoreless innings in two previous starts at the park.
Fritz had long ago learned the value of leavening history with humor, she found, on visiting schools and libraries, that she had to give her readers permission to dispense with the hushed veneration in which historical books had long trafficked.
I covered that match for The Times in Moscow, and the tension was palpable in the hushed excitement that would sweep the crowd whenever Kasparov made a bold move and the K.G.B. types scattered through the audience to see who applauded.
For over three decades, Yo La Tengo has proved itself to be one of indie rock's most reliable and revered bands with more than a dozen studio albums that veer between hushed piano balladry to freakouts in feedback-drenched noise.
What's more, he commands great delicacy and subtlety of expression, as appropriate, and that, too, was evident here, especially in his stealthy interplay with the fine timpanist, Markus Rhoten, in the second movement, against a backdrop of hushed and mysterious strings.
He speaks softly in hushed Brummie tones, this just before the end of a debut season with Brentford in which, despite some early struggles after his transfer from Walsall, he has by all accounts grown steadily into his midfield role.
The funeral is just getting started when in struts James Keziah Delaney (Hardy), who turns the church aisle into a catwalk, modeling his gorgeous trench coat and striking hat, soaking in the hushed whispers of shock that he is back from the dead.
The windows are made from black reflecting glass, the corridors are neat and hushed, the grass has been recently cut, there is plenty of parking space for everybody, and security guards in golf carts make sure all the cars are on legitimate business.
Hushed conversations drifted from crowds lined up to buy food: about the firefighters who died after coming back from Chernobyl, about the whole town of Pripyat that had been herded onto buses and driven away from their homes, probably never to return.
This noise was hushed by the Here Ones onboard tech, but then Doppler Labs CEO Noah Kraft started chatting with me and while the engines remained quiet his voice came in at full volume, albeit with a fair bit of digital distortion.
Even after her 2004 Super Bowl performance was marred by the weirdly regressive reaction to the onstage mishap spoken of in both hushed terms as a "wardrobe malfunction," she's maintained a legacy as one pop and R&B's inveterate experimenters and unfaltering activists.
A volunteer directing traffic tells us, in a hushed voice, that he'd heard there was a DUI checkpoint at the entrance to Blue Diamond Haul, and that both the Orange County Sheriff's Department and California Highway Patrol are there, checking every car.
And the high-rise Hoshinoya (below), in Tokyo, will aim to maintain that same hushed, intimate feeling when it opens in July, with an entire floor devoted to onsen tubs, each in a private room with a sliding roof to reveal the sky.
Over the din of a hushed courtroom in Taunton, Massachusetts, on Thursday, Judge Lawrence Moniz sentenced red-eyed 20-year-old Michelle Carter to two-and-a-half years in the Bristol County House of Correction for telling her boyfriend to kill himself.
While that voice often manifested in a hushed whisper during his early work, his delivery is stronger, clearer and more nuanced than ever on Pagan—as if to underscore the fact that he's revealing some of his most personal stories to date.
Just a hushed voice whispering: "Confused... by Thom" After "Airbag", "Killer Cars", and their general suspicion over humanity's reliance on technology, a Radiohead song bemoaning the faults of Uber – who are spearheading the future of driverless cars – wouldn't be out of the question.
"It didn't need to get to this," the employee said, describing a tense scene of hushed conversations in the office hallways followed by a mad dash to get out of the building after the announcement of the first employee's death on Monday.
Beekman Place, a two-block stub between 49th and 50th Streets east of First Avenue, where Irving Berlin lived for more than 40 years (his home was sold to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg), has the scrubbed, hushed perfection of a movie set.
"We need Otello to come and kill Desdemona, please," Mr. Dudamel intoned in exaggeratedly hushed tones into a microphone, drawing chuckles from the orchestra and singers by summoning death to the stage the way an airline gate agent might page a passenger.
Four members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, playing a cello, various flutes, clarinets and percussion, produce myriad hushed sounds, sometimes scratching their nails or rubbing their hands on cymbals or on suspended bass drums, and playing halting motifs that almost form lyrical phrases.
At one point — in the film's most terrifying sequence — as Amelia climbs up the balloon's exterior to release a perilously frozen gas valve, George Steel's cinematography has such a hushed and blinding beauty that it would be a crime to close your eyes.
One of the themes that market participants are increasingly talking about, in hushed tones: Comments that new Fed Chair Jerome Powell made back in 2012 at Federal Open Market Committee meetings, expressing doubts over the efficiency of the central bank's market interventions.
On her first visit to the city's Eastside Flea market years ago, where she aimed to sell from her personal collection of occult books, skulls, and taxidermy, she recalls organizers telling her in hushed tones about the last standing house on the block.
Neither hushed nor monastic, this is music that sounds incredibly alive—a joyous cacophony of blissed out chanting and gospel-like shouts of praise amidst the dizzying swoop of Alice's synthesiser, at once ancient and futuristic, like the sound of exploding stars.
The hushed feel to the photographs is similar to his treatment of other subjects, whether workers at the Steinway factory in Astoria, or the ruins of North Brother Island in the East River, another complicated site of public health and now a bird sanctuary.
The second sign was probably the whiskey, which, when I entered, could be seen in a glass bottle on a small wooden table in the center of the gallery; at it sat two people, their faces flushed and their tones hushed as they spoke.
As they march — with the camera focusing on individuals' deliberate strides and precisely choreographed about-faces and hand gestures — orchestral sounds play out of sync with the footage, swelling from the hushed chaos of instruments tuning to a sharp, baroque composition that steadily crescendos.
On January 24, before a hushed assembly, Jerry Brown, the freewheeling former governor of California, and William Perry, the stern former defense secretary, drew back a heavy black curtain to reveal the iconic clock graphic, now set for 2019—at two minutes to midnight.
The only noises your correspondent heard in the dimly-lit room, which resembles a 1960s lecture theatre, were hushed murmurs and bleeps as traders pressed buttons to place bids, and polite applause when one lot of coffee sold at a record price for the season.
But for "Josephine Baker: A Personal Portrait," an evening of Baker songs newly arranged by the young avant-jazz composer and musician Tyshawn Sorey and sung by the radiant soprano Julia Bullock, the tempo has been slowed and the mood hushed to unsettled melancholy.
If you're still in any doubt as to how Harvey Weinstein's reported sexual abuse remained a hushed, wink-and-nudge secret in Hollywood for so many years, this video of Courtney Love nervously warning people about the producer's conduct way back in 2005 might help.
Back at the main stage Sunday night, the song's first minute saw the din of the crowd shift from excited to hushed to abuzz with confusion as Bush's vocals—which, to many of the crowd's unacquainted ears, could be confused with Lorde—beckoned on.
The premise is simple — a boy recounts how he goes with Dad on Friday nights to his job cleaning a school — but Hesse, a Newbery Medal winner, and Karas create an atmosphere of hushed fascination as we follow the pair through the long night.
More a medley of hushed lyrics, offbeat acoustic instrumentation, and field recordings that function as expressive instruments in their own right, the songs offer a unique combination of sounds native to what was once called "post-rock," now matched with equal density in the lyrics.
Bollinger uses the most basic filmmaking process, stop-motion animation, a technique pioneered in the 19th-century by George Melies, a failed magician but a great filmmaker  — to depict time passing in this hushed, uneventful world in which see two characters, a mother and son.
And we had, around this individual, an institution so invested in its own reputation and unwilling to be distracted from its wider mission that it ignored clues, minimized accusations, hushed up accusers or did all of the above as the number of victims multiplied.
For anyone who has lived in the Midwest, among the hushed suburban conformity and tidy green lawns, it's not remotely shocking that an untamable imagination like Goff's could arise from — and was perhaps even animated by — the area's vast, monotonous landscapes and often conservative attitudes.
Even before the Senate's 24-to-270 vote was gaveled to a close, retired New York firefighters and police officers, advocates and Jon Stewart, the comedian who championed the legislation, had leapt to their feet in the usually hushed chamber to lead a standing ovation.
NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL (JULY 73-30) A group of artists we probably tend to imagine reading their work in hushed tones in small cafes will take over beautiful Governors Island en masse when hundreds of poets participate in two days of readings.
In old Hollywood, trespasses and illegal offenses were regularly cleaned up and hushed up by fixers like Eddie Mannix, an executive and enforcer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer back in its glossiest, outwardly glamorous heyday when any whiff of scandal, any ostensible deviance, was quietly concealed.
Those in the arena, often hushed and serene on Monday hours before the Clippers hosted the Memphis Grizzlies, or those watching the service on television, saw a thoughtfully constructed lineup of stars who veered between sharing memories of big-time sports and more intimate moments.
Now, in a sunny hospital conference room, Elizabeth and her boyfriend, J., listened as Dr. Adam Czynski, director of the newborn nursery at Women and Infants, explained the symptoms and treatment of NAS in the hushed tones of a man accustomed to speaking around newborns.
And during the tour de force sleepwalking scene — Lady Macbeth's final moments, when she imagines her hands covered with blood that cannot be washed away — Ms. Netrebko was in a zone, one moment emitting chilling outbursts, the next shaping haunted phrases with eerily hushed radiance.
Up there in the stratosphere where Sushi Nakazawa's elite new competitors hold court, there's a price to be paid, too, in empty seats, eerily hushed dining rooms and customers who don't seem to think there's anything odd about having the whole place to themselves.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) rightly began hearings to gain answers on what Russia did, as it's time for the selective leaking and hushed briefing to preferred members of the media to end.
But even two years ago, a storytelling choice like this would have prompted hushed, surprised reactions and a string of think pieces that talked around the big death while still trying to touch on how it affected television (as I am doing in this intro).
In both instances, Roberts first detailed all the reasons why the Supreme Court might rule the opposite, before he suddenly revealed in the hushed courtroom setting that he had split from his conservative brethren and sided with the four liberal justices in a politically charged dispute.
Most of the ISS crew are serious people who even make their jokes in hushed near-whispers: Russian mission commander Ekaterina (Olga Dihovichnaya), medical officer David (Jake Gyllenhaal), British xenobiologist Hugh (Ariyon Bakare), Japanese systems engineer Sho (Hiroyuki Sanada), and Miranda (Rebecca Ferguson), from the CDC.
Since then, Roc Marci has continued to hone and tweak his formula across further album projects, while solidifying ongoing creative relationships with artists like Action Bronson, Alchemist, and Ka. Roc Marci's latest effort, RR2: The Bitter Dose, showcases his hushed street sermons laid down over melancholic samples.
Remarkably, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said last month that the authorities had "hushed up" the case of a 13-year-old Russian-German girl who was said by her relatives and the Russian news media to have been kidnapped and raped by migrants.
The Brooklyn show ended with the usual rousing finale of "Wake Up," but an encore that consisted of the hushed pseudo-apocalypse prophecy "Neon Bible" ("not much chance for survival") and an unsettling reprise of "Everything Now" sung over droning feedback soured the celebratory atmosphere, possibly intentionally.
Nobody spells out where the monsters came from, or how the world's armed forces reacted, but we get the gist during the course of a hushed pre-title sequence which, as in so many of the best horror movies, would work as a short film in itself.
But that's what made them so compelling, too: We would gather round in the brief minutes of classroom bustle, when the teacher was too busy to notice, and we'd whisper hushed solutions to each other, half-remembered from a French walkthrough we'd found the night before.
I bent down to pick up the volleyball that we had dropped (again), and heard one of the girls say in a hushed tone to the others, "Good for her, I could never do that," as they looked at me in my bikini and continued walking by.
LONDON (Reuters) - After a year of secret diplomacy and hushed-up private talks around the world, OPEC's mighty Saudi Arabia and rival Venezuela were persuaded to cut a deal by non-OPEC Mexico which overcame mutual acrimony and led to a much-needed rise in oil prices.
Look, if you want to see the playoffs treated like sacred ground, where everyone speaks reverently in hushed tones about the honor of competing for the Stanley Cup, then you can get that in Montreal, or Toronto, or Boston or half a dozen other traditional markets.
On the level of adaptation, Ms. Neuwirth's mostly wordless "Lost Highway Suite" adheres more closely to the source material than her original stage piece, as the vocal writing in the opera stands defiantly apart from the frequently hushed and affectless performances Mr. Lynch drew from his actors.
I loved being part of a single listening organism in a hushed lecture hall, and feeling the body heat and breath of other students packed into the library in the middle of the night, and never having a single meal on my own, not even breakfast.
The Shortlist THE KNOWN, THE SECRET, THE FORGOTTEN By Joan Wheelis Although Wheelis is a psychiatrist writing about her psychoanalyst parents — her father, Allen Wheelis, was also a prominent author — this often luminous work is less an act of therapy than a hushed celebration of everyday mysteries.
As the years passed and the mystery of what happened went unsolved, Ms. Blampied felt stymied at every turn: When she was younger, she would mention her mother to relatives who quickly hushed her, urging her to move on — "it's done already," she said they told her.
The gloom and shadows of the inhospitable planet and the hushed, antiseptic corridors of the Covenant are superior horror-movie environments, and the fact that you know more or less exactly what's coming doesn't diminish the creepiness, or lessen the jolt when the thing you're dreading arrives.
In the hushed-toned dining room, his minimalist rectangular dining table, in a muted Breche marble, takes pride of place among nubuck leather chairs by the Italian designer Willy Rizzo and is topped by a bulbous bright blue vase by the local designer Jean-Baptiste Fastrez.
The cathedral-like ground floor of Ogata Paris is a hushed, dim space with vaulted double-height ceilings, a central skylight whose effect is heightened by the glass circle on the otherwise white terrazzo floor and, to the side, a bubbling pond sculpted from rough stone.
Make that gasps or outright silence — Leonard noticeably hushed the audience with a straightaway 3-pointer with 1 minute 40 seconds left in the third quarter to push the Clippers' lead back to 12 points after the Raptors had sliced an earlier 20-point deficit to 23.
At the most recent meeting of the patriarchy—they're held once a month at the Checkers in Tenafly, New Jersey, with bottomless sodas from noon 'til two—a hushed whisper could be heard coming from somewhere in the back: Had anybody read that hilarious Reductress story that morning?
The empty Pro Plus boxes that littered the floor during revision season have been replaced by crushed Strongbow Dark Fruit tinnies drained of their disgusting nectar, the previously hushed halls now filled with 19-year-olds snogging each other and shouting "LAGER LAGER LAGER" literally 24 hours a day.
"Although this film shows a negative side of India, it will help trigger more conversation about periods - a natural bodily process that is usually talked about in hushed tones, if at all," said Surbhi Singh, founder of Delhi-based Sachhi Saheli, a charity that raises awareness about menstrual health.
N'Djamena (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Koutu Saimon's son, Wheener, was born almost four months premature and "as small as a mouse", friends and relatives in Chad turned to the new mother and, with sidelong glances and in hushed voices, whispered to her to get rid of the baby.
" An account from the British side by Barbara Abernethy, personal assistant to the spy chief, Alastair Denniston, quoted in the book "The Secrets of Station X" by Michael Smith, highlights the excitement and novelty surrounding the start of an intelligence-sharing relationship, born 75 years ago amid "hushed voices.
People seem to speak in hushed tones about you the way they earlier spoke about [earlier Silicon Valley banker] Frank Quattrone, but Frank Quattrone had a reputation for taking on deals that others wouldn't take; you have a reputation for saying no to deals when they don't feel right.
Yet the 1,300-square-foot building that's visible above ground, which includes hushed, honed public spaces in dark wood, a welded metal kitchen and two minimalist bedrooms, represents less than a fifth of the total living space: The rest is beneath grade, on three floors, descending nearly 50 feet.
" The album's other showstoppers are hushed-to-heroic piano ballads: the Elton John-flavored "Always Remember Us This Way"; the electronics-assisted hymn "Before I Cry"; and "I'll Never Love Again," which harks back to 1970s hits like Harry Nilsson's "Without You" and Eric Carmen's "All By Myself.
The relatively hushed works here from Clark (a collage of gray diamonds and triangles) and Oiticica (flat gouaches of circles and rectangles) barely hint at what was to come, but it's illuminating to see their art amid works by their old Carioca buddies, as Rio natives are known.
What Nussbaum does is thrillingly different; she treats television as art in its own right — not the kind of rarefied, fragile museum piece that requires you to handle it with a hushed reverence and kid gloves, but a robust, roiling form that can take whatever you throw its way.
Paramount has two big sequels with "Top Gun: Maverick," a follow up to the 1986 action film that has Tom Cruise reprising his iconic role, and the hushed horror film "A Quiet Place Part II." There are also sequels for "Halloween," James Bond and "Ghostbusters" on the docket.
Together, the two competing properties in the small, hushed Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air have become the Godzilla-versus-King Kong of rich real estate, rising as concrete symbols of the new class of supersize wealth and offering a window into the particular needs of today's billionaires.
Michael R. Bloomberg started his campaign at a hushed diner in downtown Norfolk, Va., shaking hands with a snowy-haired afternoon crowd, drawing a combination of selfie requests and quizzical stares, before strolling to a nearby hotel ballroom and making an efficient statement before a bank of television cameras.
Senator Martha McSally, Republican of Arizona and the first woman in the Air Force to fly in combat, told a hushed Senate hearing room on Wednesday that she had been raped by a superior officer, one of multiple times she was sexually assaulted while she served her country.
After that haphazard, long-out-of-print 1999 album, Lennox resumed his solo career with 803's Young Prayer, a hushed meditation on grief, before finally breaking through with 2007's Person Pitch, a woozy tapestry of sampled textures and dense-as-hell harmony that still feels impenetrable 12 years later.
How do you explain the visceral and personal pain caused by the killing of a black person you did not even know to people who did not grow up with, as their legacy, the hushed stories of black bodies hung from trees by a lynching mob populated with sheriff's deputies?
St. Cloud's police chief, William Blair Anderson, said as recently as Tuesday that no evidence had been found tying Mr. Adan to terrorist groups, adding fuel to hushed discussions in St. Cloud's Somali grocery stores and apartment buildings about whether this was a planned terrorist attack or something altogether different.
So there is no resting easy for Edens, even though it is true that Milwaukee's success and Antetokounmpo's nightly ferocity have hushed much of the usual free-agent speculation that a player of his stature would generate heading into a summer in which he is eligible for a contract extension.
In its final moments, the music — by Mr. Toussaint-Baptiste, with Mr. Rawls — fades as Ms. Pretty performs a drifting and defiant solo in which she mirrors the score's hushed delivery; instead of hearing the music played out, it sounds as if it is being sucked back into the speaker.
"Somewhere down the line, Life illustrator Charles Dana Gibson and magazine publisher Henry Luce were down there having a really great time," jokes the bar's owner, Stephen Hanson, of his decision to open a hushed cocktail lounge — all burnished leather and dark oak paneling — that nods to the building's storied past.
And to be sure, Mindhunter has a lot of scenes that take the form of "Can you believe this sick freak?!" that drive me up the wall, but they're always staged as cool, hushed conversations between psychology experts, which allow me to slowly inch my way back down from the ceiling.
After nearly an hour of hushed conversations, as well as calls to law enforcement officials and other undecided Republicans, Mr. Flake emerged to ask for an investigation that would be "limited in time and scope to the current allegations that are there," siding with Democrats who have repeatedly requested an inquiry.
Allowed to compete in the Moscow open championship that June, he won, and then brought a hushed pall over the awards ceremony when he urged the Soviet Chess Federation to facilitate the emigration of the wife and son of Viktor Korchnoi, a Soviet grandmaster who had defected to the West.
Two witnesses warned lawmakers that law schools may have hushed up reports about harassing behavior by judges out of fear of disrupting the informal "pipeline" that elite universities use to feed promising law students into clerkships that can lead to key jobs and to large bonuses at big law firms.
Downtempo and fixated on slow, steady burn, her musical euphoria appears when she savors snaky lines of melody, when keyboard textures thwock and ping against your ear's expectations, when rays of electronic light crisscross and leave the drum machine faintly shaded, when sonic contrast creates a hushed, fragile, hesitant mood.
While I was at my desk, Super Hearing allowed me to pick up on the faintest background noises, some of which I wouldn't have otherwise paid much attention to, such as the unzipping of jackets, popping open of soda cans, beeping of car horns outside, and hushed conversations between co-workers around me.
As someone who spends much of her time investigating restaurant kitchens, I can report that at every level — from hushed, shiny temples that turn out foie gras and hand-torn pasta to flyblown street-meat carts — food made for you by professionals has far more butter and oil than you can possibly imagine.
The heart-wrenching crescendo of "Runaway" (2010), the hushed contentment of "Only One" (2014) and the icy warning calls of "Wolves" (2014); it's a computerised cry that has come to define the West sound, and marks perhaps one of the most seamless and long-lasting marriages between hip-hop and experimental instrumentation.
With visions of playing before raucous capacity crowds in the cool of autumn, the Mets and the Cardinals started their three-game series Tuesday afternoon at steamy Citi Field with a smattering of fans and a hushed atmosphere, and the first game was defined by a series of misjudgments on the basepaths.
She took the child's face in her hands and said in a hushed voice, Oh, my God, it is you, isn't it, you look so much like my sister I'd know that face anywhere, no matter the haircut, they never found you in the cleanup, oh my God, tell me it's you.
At 22002 it becomes hushed, and the first of a series of pastors stands and begs the blessings of the Lord—for the nation, for the government, for protection from North Korean nuclear weapons, for the young and the old, the sick and the weak, and for Pastors Lee Younghoon and Cho Yonggi.
"In the usually hushed auditorium where a nod of the head sometimes means a bid of tens of thousands of dollars for a painting," The Times wrote of the occasion, "a rock 'n' roll combo played something described as 'baroque rock,'" while Mr. Pollen stood beaming at the back of the room.
Among them are John Legend's "Darkness and Light," R&B songs informed by blues, jazz and social consciousness; the English songwriter Laura Marling's sparse, thoughtful "Semper Femina"; and "No Shape" by Perfume Genius (the songwriter Mike Hadreas), a cinematic excursion that encompasses electronics, orchestral strings, desolately hushed ballads and bursts of pop euphoria.
He&aposs moving the firm&aposs executive offices from the 41st floor – where employees speak in hushed tones and company leaders have closed door offices with sweeping views of the city skyline – down among the bank&aposs other employees, according to an internal memo sent this morning and reviewed by Business Insider.
But, apart from that, a rare Taylor Swift outing in Atelier Versace, an "embroidered bib" by Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton for Timothée Chalamet, and Michelle Yeoh's sporting of the famous Crazy Rich Asians emerald, the 2019 Globes was a hushed night for red carpet style — inside the venue and out, online and off.
The official news had not yet broken about an epochal astronomical measurement—the detection, by gravitational wave detectors as well as many other telescopes, of a collision between two neutron stars—but a controversial tweet had lit a firestorm of rumor in the astronomical community, and excited researchers were discussing the discovery in hushed tones.
Popcast Listen to this week's podcast | Subscribe: iTunes | RSS | Stitcher| Audioboom When Bon Iver's Justin Vernon emerged from the woods in 2007 with his debut album, "For Emma, Forever Ago," he was, more or less, a professional introvert, making hushed music that he delivered onstage as a fundamentally interior act, almost shielding himself from observation.
"We were literally in full panic mode until they gave us the laptops [to work from home]," the Costco Travel employee said, describing how employees went from hushed, confused conversations in the office hallways to a mad sprint to get out of the building after the announcement of the first employee's death on March 16.
In view of such fabled perfectionism, not to mention the sharp lines and hushed neutrals that define both his clothing and home décor collections, the weekend compound he has owned for nearly 30 years in Broni — an unremarkable industrial town about an hour and a half south of Milan — is nothing you would expect.
The trans-Atlantic relationship, so long discussed in hushed terms as central to Germany and a significant support for the European Union, now sits in the center of the ring, pummeled by an American leader not sure how much he wants to tend to it and a Europe re-thinking whether that relationship is still vital.
The album's centerpiece, "Basquiat," a feathery cloud of exhaustion and menace, slowly creeps over antsy bass, fluid squiggles of guitar serving as textual frames rather than melodic elements, and a hushed drum track that patters and hops and taps its feet at double-time in contrast to the slow overall beat, growing tenser and airier throughout.
In many ways, this was a return to the dynamics of the very first seasons: A royal army marching north; growing dissent within the ranks of the Northmen as the king brings home a foreign consort; lovers frolicking in bodies of water, vowing to stay there forever; and hushed conversations about Lyanna Stark in the crypt below Winterfell.
In hushed tones and under the cover of Guatemala's darkened sky, then-11-year-old Jessica, her brother, and some of her family members got up in the middle of the night for the long trip to the United States, away from the death threats and into the arms of the parents she hadn't seen in 10 years.
We are in the hushed chambers where the commission of inquiry struggles to assess a violent and unprecedented episode with sobriety and rationality; in the interrogation room where a detective questions the suspect; in meetings where rabbis find warrant in Jewish law for taking the life of a Jew who brings harm to his own kind.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Curated by the award-winning critic, and former Hyperallergic Senior Editor, Jillian Steinhauer and dotted with homespun memorials and retiring audiovisuals, In the Presence of Absence is a smart, understated group exhibition whose hushed atmosphere calls attention to grief's lingering effects in public and private life, particularly for people from historically marginalized communities.
A fight aboard a moving train and a final face-off at an African port both recall the 1999 Barry Sonnenfeld disaster Wild Wild West in their pacing, framing, and offbeat comedy, but Legend also reaches for Legends Of The Fall gravity and beauty at intervals, and occasionally emulates Malick's hushed sunlit reveries from The New World.
In the tradition of Todd Haynes's "Safe," with a dash of horror films like "The Stepford Wives" and "The Perfection" thrown in for chilly measure, "Swallow" is the hushed, methodical chronicle of a woman's descent into ever more self-harming extremes, a journey that, in this case, has its roots in patriarchy at its most controlling and violent.
On-the-record speculation about the future of one's colleagues is seen as uncouth in a Capitol overflowing with ambition, but the hushed whispers about the pair of Democrats — who, together, spoke for more than half of their party's time during the trial — is pervasive from every corner of the caucus, and illustrative of their stature among their colleagues.
My father explained this to me while he was decanting a bottle, his voice hushed with concentration as he poured the crimson liquid through the little glowing circle of candlelight and onto the broad glass lip of the decanter, watching for the first dark bits of wine waste—the hated sediment—at which point he stopped.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told the firm&aposs 38,000 employees on Thursday about his plan to move the offices of his senior leadership team from the 41st floor, where people speak in hushed tones and execs have closed door offices with expansive views, to the 12th, where they can be closer to the firm&aposs employees.
Ms. Yovanovitch's public testimony, which played out over more than five hours in a packed and hushed House Ways and Means Committee Room, was an indictment of foreign policy in the Trump era, outlining the harm to American diplomacy and national security by a president who embraced false claims to target his own officials representing the United States overseas.
But after some hushed conversations in side rooms, it was announced that the Schomburg — located on Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem, and already home to a large collection of material that had been held by Malcolm X's family — had acquired the manuscript for an undisclosed sum, along with nearly a dozen unpublished fragments that had also gone unsold.
"I take more risks in what I wear now," said Ms. Curran, who was wearing, among other striking garments, gold-sequined thigh-high boots for a morning visit to a hushed consignment office — one of eight around the country for those who don't feel like putting their valuables in a postage box — at the company's headquarters in Fisherman's Wharf.

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