Sentences with phrase «hushed tones about»

You're sitting there watching TV and suddenly the characters are talking in hushed tones about something important.

It seems that whatever the practice area, lawyers talk in hushed tones about their work becoming a commodity.

It must have been some time ago at Capcom's business strategy meeting where the top executives were sitting around and talking in hushed tones about what the company's development strategy would be.

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.»

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

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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.

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.

While both Harper and Nationals manager Dusty Baker are speaking openly about the limited timeline available to them for Harper to fully come back, the MLB.com article also notes the hushed tones and concerned thoughts around the clubhouse.

You may have heard it talked about in hushed, awed tones at play group, or caught wind of it by the water cooler at work.

I was a little too young for online dating when it first came out in the «90s, but I remember older family members and friends talking about it in almost a hushed tone.

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.

When his co-workers talk about him, they do so in hushed tones and warn one another not to get too familiar, even in their gossip.

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.

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.

If the student loan situation ever comes to a head, we may have people talking about student loans in hushed tones.

When people ask me this question, my favorite part about it is the hushed tone in which they do so in an effort to get me to let them in on the big secret.

Now, it's time for desert, and travelers to Nicaragua talk about Tres Leches like European backpackers speak about Nutella: in hushed, reverent tones that always end with the entreating question, «Do you have any?»

Honestly, all snark aside, I know / teach some youngsters who grew up in a «post-piracy» world (to the extent that they've grown up with things like the VC, Steam, and Netflix in the 00s, so downloading ROMs or TV shows or whatever doesn't hold enough allure / necessity to overcome wariness of getting in trouble or guilt about breaking copyright laws), but who have engaged with the fandom, talk of the game in hushed tones, and have been waiting with bated breath to play it.

In the hushed tones of a woman who's been at the top of her game so long that she doesn't need to shout about it, Lévy describes the performance as «exceptional and a pleasure.»

After years of being relegated to the sidelines or talked about only in hushed tones the idea of adaptation strategies for climate change is increasingly being talked about on equal footing with the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.