Sentences with phrase «in hushed tones»

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.

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.

Why, they're going to ask in hushed tones, would an otherwise advanced civilisation with superior tool handling skills, why would they need to employ a yellow piece of plastic to slice such an innocently soft fruit as the banana?

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.

In hushed tones, they admit they have to skew the wording of papers and proposals to not appear to be one of those «denier» types.

Such is the insipid brainwashing that has taken place via television, newspapers and exalted talking heads - global warming skeptics are forced to wear the metaphoric yellow star and only discuss their doubts in hushed tones and conciliatory frameworks, or be cat - called, harangued and jeered by an army of do - gooders who righteously believe they are rescuing mother earth by recycling a wine bottle or putting their paper in a separate trash can.

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.»

«The works have a subtlety; they speak in a whisper, in hushed tones.

Between it and the felt reams of narrative unfold in hushed tones.

More specifically, it was a room filled with European tourists and other museum - going types, who spoke in hushed tones and photographed one another with smartphones as they downed their curry.

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.

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.

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.

The previous VIP reward tier plus... our only remaining copy of The Great Giana Sisters on Atari ST, to be presented to you in hushed tones at the launch party.

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.

As I sat, reflecting with the springs flowing around me, I seemed to hear in hushed tones: there is always a chance for peace.

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

It seems like an urban legend, gossip whispered in hushed tones at graduation ceremonies, «Shhh, see her.

(At which point the husband in the selling couple leaned over and reassured Jody in hushed tones: «There's a lot of single women in the building.»)

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.

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.»

The interior was so quiet we could play «Twenty Questions» in hushed tones.

It is a mythical creature, spoken of in hushed tones, more monster than automobile.

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

Front and backseat passengers easily converse at 75 mph, even in hushed tones.

In hushed tones, people speak of the «Engineers of the Urug».

In hushed tones, Leslie describes what appeared on her dinner table one night.

Downstairs in the cafeteria, school security guard Alina Sanchez oversees 248 KIPP students eating breakfast and talking in hushed tones.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Appropriately titled To the Wonder, the film has Malick's stamp written all over it: Philosophical voice - overs uttered in hushed tones to a haunting orchestral soundtrack, panoramic displays of the physical beauty of nature, a story that...

Appropriately titled To the Wonder, the film has Malick's stamp written all over it: Philosophical voice - overs uttered in hushed tones to a haunting orchestral soundtrack, panoramic displays of the physical beauty of nature, a story that features little dialogue, and an untranslatable feeling for the spiritual.

He discovers his mother, Sophie (Maria Bello, «The 5th Wave»), talking in hushed tones to someone in the shadows.

All of this is asked in hushed tones.

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

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.»

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.

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

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

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.