Sentences with phrase «small quiet moments»

Of the dramatic plot twists that routinely occur in suspense fiction, one character in Harriet Lane's Her complains that they are «unsatisfying... nothing like life, which — it seems to me — turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings or disappointments, the things that it's easy to overlook.»

Petterson has been widely praised for his descriptions of nature, and of small quiet moments in everyday life.

Not exact matches

(Or, for that matter, the quiet inner voice gratefully celebrating small moments of contentment?)

If you accomplish a tough task, allow yourself a small reward, like a nice meal or a quiet moment of relaxation.

For every moment of big beautiful joy or small hidden victories or tender quiet encounters with love and peace, there is the ache and the longing for everything — sometimes just one something in particular — to be made right.

There are comfortable common areas like an outdoor courtyard and interior Living Room Lounge with community bar that beckon you to sit and relax — if even just for a moment, and a quiet study can accommodate small groups and private meetings.

In smaller, quieter moments she spins her grandchild in a circle, holding her hands, eliciting giggles and a toothy grin.

After I accepted that my daughter just was not a child who was going to sleep for long stretches at night (she will be two soon and still wakes to nurse every two or three hours), it stopped bothering me, and now I, too, take those quiet moments to breathe in her baby hair smell and listen to her small sleepy sounds.

In the chaos of parenting small children, reading books is one of the quietest, calmest moments you'll experience outside of nap time.

In order to destress, I carve out small moments throughout the day for self - care and quiet pauses, like doing yoga, walking and just petting my dog.

Field in the small number of scenes she gets does her best to hold her own, but it is impossible not to notice how much better she is in the small moments of quiet madness, such as when she dresses down Republican Leader Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) in front of a White House party, than when she falls to screeching.

It's the kind of small dramatic moment that this calm, quiet film is built on, and it allows for tender, restrained performances from Edgerton and Negga.

Rating: 7/10 — better than average, and scoring points for the deftness of its characterisations, Cardboard Gangsters tells an overly familiar tale with verve and no small semblance of rugged style; some may find the Irish accents impenetrable at times, but the gist of the story (and individual scenes) shines through, making this easier to follow than expected, and shot through with moments of quiet power.

She captures King's drive and intensity, but also the quieter moments when King is torn between her husband, Larry (Austin Stowell), and her lover, Marilyn (Andrea Riseborough, doing the most with a smaller part).

A filmmaker with an energy funneled into the small, quieter moments, Lovesong should be a tender and intimate look at a love story and the oftentimes tragic nature of «what if's».

A Quiet Place is full of these small moments that shock, stun and leave you breathless.

Reeves is just as adept at directing the small, quiet moments between apes and humans as he is with the film's action set pieces.

Jennings newest series, Moments, captures life's simpler and smaller moments, and brings their quiet comfort to the foreMoments, captures life's simpler and smaller moments, and brings their quiet comfort to the foremoments, and brings their quiet comfort to the foreground.

With a physical immediacy and a casual voice, Stevenson's poems capture quiet, intensely moving moments of daily life in a small seaside town, and his exquisite, understated watercolors extend the concrete particulars of the words.

The expanse of common areas such as the ocean - facing living room, dining room and fully equipped kitchen is balanced by smaller, tucked - away spaces like the media room and library, making it easy to gather together or slip away for a quiet moment.

There are plenty of small gripes and niggles with the game, plus so bugs and glitches, including one at the moment which can corrupt save data when using Quiet during two missions, something which Konami has already posted a warning about.

At the end of the day it was a supernatural techno - thriller, but it was also filled with the sorts of small, quiet moments that felt incredibly mature (to 20 year old Austin, anyway).

The strength for this leap of faith grew in the quietest moments of the game, around the many small pits of scrap wood that Seto sets fire to, sitting near the flames to regain health, deal with a chicken masked creature for supplies, and save the game.

The narratives that these new works create ask for quiet reflection on what might be considered the small pleasures of life, as they are made in proximity to our daily rituals in the moments where object - hood is more than just function or form, but rather an intimate relationship and exchange with ourselves.

There's something about watching it alone on a small monitor that makes the scene compelling — albeit slightly frustrating — as if we're viewing a program in quiet anticipation of some climactic moment that never arrives.