Sentences with phrase «near silence on»

The fabric hood has three layers and is acoustically engineered for near silence on the move when it's raised.

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A refreshing exception to this near silence is an insightful statement by Miriam Polster on «Women in Therapy: A Gestalt Therapist's View.»

Gillibrand slammed the GOP for its «near silence» on sexual misconduct allegations against former Republican National Committee finance chairman Steve Wynn.

Rep. Bill Owens broke his silence on the mosque / Islamic center proposed for construction near Ground Zero, telling me during a «Capital Tonight» interview set to air this evening that he agrees the project should be relocated to a less controversial site.

The president's decision to break his silence last Friday on the mosque proposed for construction near Ground Zero raised the volume on an already controversial issue, catapulting it into the political stratosphere and becoming an issue in races all over New York and the nation — even after (or maybe because?)

Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE (D - N.Y.) on Monday slammed the GOP for its «near silence» on sexual misconduct allegations against former Republican National Committee (RNC) finance chairman Steve Wynn.

It was a promise for action that stood in dramatic contrast to his near - silence on the politically difficult issue in the months preceding the November election.

Hence, the lengthy break from the blog and the near radio - silence on social media.

If Julian's character is revealed most clearly in his silence and the odd fantasies in his mind, Crystal is a collection of her stiff posture, the stern look on her face, and the way she poses with her cigarette held out an odd angle, waiting for her son to light it — refusing to make even the slightest effort to do something for herself when her trusty servant is near.

As we all know, nastiness is a deeply revered quality in the American cinema of the 90s — consider all the raves conferred on Silence of the Lambs — but not even Mitchum at his near - best and Herrmann at his second - best could make me like this 60s version.

After years of near silence, Dan Aykroyd exploded on «The Dennis Miller Show» in regards to Columbia Pictures» long delayed Ghostbusters...

A ghost is haunting Woodward Avenue late on a Saturday night, disturbing the silence that stretches all the way from downtown Detroit through the economic wasteland near Hamtramck to the slumbering suburbs above 8 Mile.

OK, if you're used to the current Rangie's petrol V8 (or even diesel V8) you might miss the accompanying soundtrack, but we'd wager many more people will come to love the near silence of wafting along in a larger SUV on pure - electric power.

A gentle haptic nudge on the accelerator says you can release the pedal and coast in near - silence, and it all feels reassuringly natural.

The near silence of the desert was disturbed only by the belching, farting and defecating of our steeds, none of which detracted from the surprisingly soothing experience of bouncing along on a hump.

From directing the traffic on the road near the venue of a religious ceremony in order to avoid the traffic jam to patrolling the streets in Silence Day (Nyepi day) are responsibilities of them.

His film works include The Silence of Ani (2015): shot on location in an ancient Armenian city near the border with Turkey, the quiet of a ruined city is broken by birdsong.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Born near the Baltic, he settled permanently in Dresden, where he focused exclusively on the spiritual connections and significance of landscape, being inspired by the haunted silence of the forest, as well as the effect of light (sunrise, dusk, moonlight) and the seasons.

And there is a cost — this thread of petty point - scoring and ridicule approaches 400 comments, while the much more productive thread on your review reply, where the «denizens» could actually contribute something to a real scientific discussion, languishes in near silence.

When we point out that the burden really lies upon those who would toss aside centuries of history on short - term, flimsy evidence, who ignore the actual evidence of heavy consolidations with more to follow, who would saddle us with a change that would be irreversible regardless of how much harm it later engendered, who would risk so much of what the legal profession has stood for, who refuse to work anywhere near as hard on real solutions to real problems as they do on this pig - in - a-poke, then we are met with silence or insults.

Musk's relative silence about Neuralink — and Mark Zuckerberg's near - silence about Facebook's brain - computer interface project, for that matter — may have something to do with the fact that an important part of developing neural implants is testing them on animals.

Using near field communication technology, SmartTags let you store device preferences for a variety of locations and situations — like opening and controlling volume on the music player if you head out for a run, turning on GPS and Bluetooth in the car or turning on your alarm and silencing your ringer at night.

ISS also said that Dollar General's «near - silence» on the regulatory process raised concerns.