The irony is that RIM thought BlackBerrys would improve quality of life because it allows for a quick, quiet connection that doesn't bother other people.
You pick up the phone, get a dial tone, dial a number, are connected in a matter of seconds and usually have a quiet, private connection to your party.
And the album's final song with words, "While I'm Still Here," faces up to mortality yet ends up with thoughts not of apocalypse or alienation, but of quiet connection: "Stay with me, hold me near, while I'm still here," Mr. Reznor sings.
In "Brokeback Mountain," two soft-spoken sheep herders unearth a much deeper connection on a quiet mountainside, while in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," the characters speak solemnly, before an epic fight takes them soaring up into the trees like birds.
If you want to really succeed, then dress up just as if you were going to a real interview, leave a copy of your resume and cover letter on your desk, and make sure you're in a quiet place with good internet connection.
This connection leads to a quiet emotional pay-off in a piece that only glancingly explores male attitudes to sex, and the way that penetration is often confused for intimacy, and how the hunt for sex is more exciting than the actual encounter.
If you want to be dramatic, tell the group that you need a quiet room for "forming a psychic connection".
By The New Yorker When we finally arrived, Sevnica, Slovenia, was a quiet, modest town that made no mention anywhere of its connection to the First Lady.
Workers need no more than a quiet place to take their calls, a phone, a computer and a fast Internet connection.
A quiet processional began.
