Sentence examples for a quiet form from inspiring English sources

Trolleybuses – a quiet form of public transport that was cheap and did not emit fumes – were also culled.

By making life unbearable here is the state not trying to bring about a quiet form of transfer, of ethnic cleansing?

"It is a quiet form of protest".In this section China's losers Scooped ReprintsCalling yourself a diaosi has also become a proud statement of solidarity with the masses against the perceived corruption of the wealthy.

But political correctness as a concept can be a double-edged sword, too; deployed as a quiet form of censorship, it may mean that people feel as though they must inherently avoid certain subjects which may be deemed controversial.

It's where we have to look for qualities that come, perhaps, in a quieter form.

Over the years we have also seen a more quiet form of heroism – in the ladder company that lost so many men and still suits up and saves lives every day; the businesses that have rebuilt from nothing; the burn victim who has bounced back; the families that press on.

A second piece, Quiet Form, carved in marble in 1973, brought £1.865m.

Hepworth became friends with the school's then headteacher, Margaret Knott, and a marble work called Quiet Form was commissioned in 1973 to mark her retirement.

"Is he dead?" I whispered, looking at the quiet form.

But business as usual can sometimes be its own quiet form of defiance.

People notice, even when your approach to influence is of the "quiet" form.