Sentences with phrase «hushed conversations»

I would overhear hushed conversations on the bus about Republican relatives who won't stop gloating; directors would introduce their films, even the most purportedly apolitical, with sly allusions to the new President; a woman even struck up a conversation with me before a screening to complain about the film industry's closed - minded attitude towards her particular brand of libertarianism (I didn't have much to add).

The personal, political and psychological form a cross-pollinating motor that is expressed mainly through hushed conversations.

Director Ferenc Torok keeps the dialogue at a minimum, but the hushed conversations among the villagers speak volumes, and the film effectively builds tension as more and more secrets come to the surface.

Cooper structures his script as a steady series of hushed conversations and solemn burials under the big sky.

But a year into Article 50 and the UK has remained quiet on its patent policy, save for a few hushed conversations behind closed doors, leaving many patent lawyers - whose livelihoods rest on working across the EU - in jeopardy.

But in hushed conversations leading globalists will express their concern about the «undermining of the old political system.»

During a hushed conversation with the lobbyist secretly recorded by investigators, one of the women he was involved with whispered to Silver that she'd been trying to meet with him because a reporter had been asking about legislators having affairs.

Not exact matches

Among those recordings: conversations between Cohen and an attorney for two women who both received hush money to hide their alleged affairs with Donald Trump.

The conversation was, at times, animated, at others hushed; the food scrumptious; the drink just right.

Smackdown 1964 - A Companion Conversation Pt. 2 00:01 Back From Intermission & Joe freaks out over Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 04:05 Bette Davis and Baby Jane 07:30 Agnes Moorehead totally divides us 13:30 The Night of the Iguana and its repressed lesbian 16:30 Melanie talks subtext, chemistry and shares an acting pet peeve 20:50 Nathaniel demands a remake and we cast it 24:00 Ava Gardner and Richard Burton GIF - ables 31:20 Not Nominated: Glynis Johns, Irene Papas, and Gloria Foster 34:10 A parting question for Melanie Lynskey

Structured around scripted, fictional conversations designed to look and sound like real - life therapy sessions, complete with hushed tones and teary confessions, the film attempts to co-opt the emotional power of real - life therapy without caring about what is actually being said.

During the cocktail hour and around the long dinner tables purchased by the studios to fete their Oscar contenders, attendees shared a more uncomfortable night of raised eyebrows and hushed, who - will - be-next conversations.

Amid the bonding and backslapping, however, there was also hushed and heavy conversation.

I fell in love with Laura Poitras about 80 minutes into the world premiere of CITIZENFOUR at the 2014 New York Film Festival, when the older couple sitting directly in front of me began to engage in a hushed but distractingly animated conversation with each other.

Spoken in hushed tones, there's not a lot to the conversation beyond the very technical generalities of the script and special effects, but the constant admiration for Neeson yields the occasional intriguing anecdote about his method and collaboration with the crew.

The boardroom buzzed with conversation, sometimes lively, sometimes in hushed whispers.

When this car is brought up in conversation among muscle car lovers, it is spoken of in hushed tones.

The hushed cabin invites conversation between up to 7 guests, and they will appreciate the generous legroom.

I felt that writing honestly about this issue was an important way to lift the veil on a conversation about mental health that is often hushed and avoided altogether in Caribbean communities.

Its inaugural exhibition, «Declaration,» an exploration of contemporary art's power to respond to pressing social issues through the voices of 34 emerging and established artists from Richmond and around the globe, will «boldly confront pressing social issues in a city that was once the capital of the Confederacy» (The New York Times, Hilarie M. Sheets) and «stir conversations in the Richmond community] that might otherwise remain hush - hush» (The Wall Street Journal, Kelly Crow).

Still others long for the exalted hush that hung over the galleries — a hush that increasingly is being replaced by conversation and activity.

It should not be confined to hushed sidebar conversations at academic conferences.

I don't wan na say I want you Even though I want you so much It's wrapped up in conversation Whispered in a hush Though I'm frightened by the word Think it's time that it was heard