Sentences with phrase «with hushed tones»

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.

It proceeds with a hushed tone that wants to be taken for observant modesty, but eventually reveals itself as suffocating self - importance.

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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.

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

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.

With autumn in mind, and I am the kind of person who always has autumn in mind, the long - sweatshirt dress from UK brand Hush, the Two Tone Sloppy Joe dress — which I've been eying for a good year, and don't think the liking is going to go away — was (is!)

It's amazing how empty the faraway stare and the hushed Texan tones can seem when coming at you with a snaggletooth.

When the soundtrack isn't jingling with the cell - phone synth of Cliff Martinez's tangerine nightmare score, a cavernous hush envelops the characters: no walla, no street sounds, no room tone — just robotic, unaffected dialogue («I think you're perfect.

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.

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.»

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

With its hint of grey, this hushed tone can be used as a wall colour for a neutral contemporary space or on ceilings and woodwork when combined with cooler grWith its hint of grey, this hushed tone can be used as a wall colour for a neutral contemporary space or on ceilings and woodwork when combined with cooler grwith cooler greys.