Sentences with phrase «hushed tones»

An eyewitness said the pair spoke in hushed tones in an exclusive corner table at the popular Westminster restaurant.

HIs name was spoken in hushed tones of pride.

Our reviewer writes, «In episodic prose that shimmers with cinematic quality, Lightman recalls a time when aunts and uncles, cousins and siblings, parents and friends gathered in the Memphis moonlight to drink, talk in hushed tones about neighbors, sort out perplexing and slowly evolving attitudes about race and ponder the ragged ways people fall in love and out of it.»

He talks in hushed tones when you call him unexpectedly.

Sources say the contract which is being spoken of in hushed tones at the Ministry, is most likely to have been awarded on sole - sourcing basis which would run contrary to the campaign rhetoric of President Akufo Addo and the establishment of a largely superfluous portfolio of Minister of State in charge of procurement.

«This is still a natural birth,» Welte says in hushed tones as he watches the husband rub his laboring wife's brow.

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.

Sellers will include the press - shy industrialist Mitchell P. Rales (whose invitation - only private collection, Glenstone, is spoken of in hushed tones by art professionals), Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, and Robert Rauschenberg's ex-wife, the artist Susan Weil.

The source who spoke in hush tones also disclosed that leaders of the All Progressives Congress leaders have arrived at the residence from all the way from Abuja.

There will be far fewer hushed tones from the announcing booth and many celebrity interludes.

Use hushed tones when talking during nursing, and consider adding soft music or white noise.

Against the subtle storytelling, the generally hushed tone, the soft colors of the cinematography, the smooth flow of the editing and the delicate score, the sharp angles and rough edges of Nicole Kidman's performance appear all the more vividly.

Trailers have already ruined the movie's best delayed reveal: that Thor's much - feared colosseum competition, spoken about in hushed tones throughout, is none other than not - so - jolly giant The Hulk (a motion - captured Mark Ruffalo), who's been stuck in mean - green form since the end of Age Of Ultron.

Stevenson's rich, hushed tones evoke the magical atmosphere of this novel, in which Peter's discovery that an elephant will lead him to his sister, who he believed was dead, sets off a string of developments and consequences.

Whenever its name is mentioned, it is usually in hushed tones during a first - page takedown in a critique group, or on a panel of editors warning anxious wannabes about the sins of the plodders.

Although Bomberman remained the multiplayer party game of choice throughout the first half of the «90s, tales of the fabled Hi - Ten games from Hudson's caravan events continued to be shared in hushed tones among those who never got the chance to experience them.

But sitting there in the audience, it wasn't just words on paper, a segment on the news or something people spoke of in hushed tones over a cup of tea after dinner.

Speaking in hushed tones at a Queens restaurant, state Sen. John Sampson told a trusted crony to cover up a shady loan he had given the embattled politico, jurors at...

And fans of WWII flicks in which men speak in hushed tones about espionage will get more out of this than any similar pic in a few years.

Anyone who reads that would be astonished that Dicey can still be intoned in hushed tones as one of the venerable constitutional authorities.

A few of the celebrities people were discussing in hushed tones on opening day: Leonardo di Caprio, Michelle Williams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Owen Wilson, and Matthew McConaughey.

The reverberations round the Westminster village, as Labour and the Tories poured scorn on the proposal, contrasted with Clegg's hushed tone when he dropped the first idea bombshell of the new political season.

They and their snootier cousins, graphic novels, are now talked about in the same hushed tones that were once reserved for the works of Thomas Pynchon or John Barth.»

His name is stated in hushed tones by those few who knew him and exclaimed by those who were convinced he was only a legend.

And Jack Gibbs tells in hushed tones of a certain baseball game he remembers: «Mike was playing center field and a guy hit a terrific smash out toward center and Mike started running.

Acting-wise it's a powerful cast, but some of them seem to be phoning it in, speaking in hushed tones which lack the emotion which the original - albeit slightly re-written - script demands.

So Mr Hogg turned his camera on his classmates, asking them, in hushed tones, for their opinions on gun control.

It's spoken in hushed tones... with a thick layer of sarcasm.

But that all changed when he started attending the Bronx High School of Science, where kids spoke in «hushed tones in the hallways about the real heroes» — students who had won what was then known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

People speak in hushed tones about His willingness to die for us.

It's sort of like talking in a hushed tone when you order your coffee.

The voice on the other end of his «iMate» spoke in hushed tones.

But the hushed tones in which the word «art» is still so often invoked, however undeservedly» or even such matronly silliness as calling an entrée a «poem»» should not obscure from us how deeply ambivalent we remain about images and icons, and thus about all the mimetic arts.

Gourmet coffeehouses are credited with starting the revolution in American coffee tastes from a bottomless «cup of Joe» endlessly refilled by waitresses who called patrons «honey» to specialized varieties of coffee beans meticulously roasted, blended and brewed at just the right water temperature in the hushed tones of a library.

Speaking in hushed tones, we arranged a trade: a rare demo tape in exchange for the scone recipe.

Some might miss the white tablecloths, bone china, and hushed tones of the country's finest restaurants.

It's a good bet that he would have had contempt for the strident, breathless shouting of today's announcers, for Husing knew that hushed tones were the best accompaniment for drama:

TEXAS SENIOR running back Cedric Benson paused to think about the question and then, in a hushed tone only a librarian could love, answered, «My head's right.»

If the pain is mental, it will be whispered about in hushed tones and coded language.

Originally, they were places where the two players jotted down reminders of tactics and keys to their swings, but the diaries evolved into extremely personal documents that Navratilova and Mayotte both refer to in hushed tones as «my book.»

Once born, your little one suddenly found himself in a disconcerting world of hushed tones and measured steps.

they'd ask me in hushed tones, as if inquiring about a dying relative.

This birth mother and I chatted in hushed tones with a cello playing in another room.

We put notes on the front door telling people not to knock, we turned phone ringers off and then spoke in hushed tones, if we even spoke at all.

When baby wakes in the night, don't switch on a bright light, speak in hushed tones, don't engage with him; so he can differentiate between day behavior and night.

«The manager closes the door and in hushed tones says «are you the son of Lord Clement - Jones»?»