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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a quiet sense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a subtle or understated feeling or awareness about something.
Example: "She had a quiet sense of accomplishment after finishing the project, even if no one else noticed."
Alternatives: "a subtle feeling" or "a gentle awareness".
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The private man was sincere and loyal, with a quiet sense of humor.
John was a modest, courteous man with a quiet sense of humour.
At the time, he said, he had felt a quiet sense of fatalism.
Citarella, the Restaurant, an offshoot of the famous food store, has a quiet sense of style.
But this reader, for one, felt only a quiet sense of "argh" while struggling through this chaotic account.
Tall, diffident, with a quiet sense of humor, Mr. Thunevin comes from an old Bordeaux wine family.
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Critics described it as "eerie" and "neurotic", with "a quiet, restrained sense of dread".
The international hotels here are starting to empty; the restaurants and bars are bringing their tables in off the streets; and a queasy, quiet sense of dread is coiling itself round Nairobi, as the country waits to see what - beyond the two grenade attacks this week - Kenya's military offensive inside neighbouring Somalia might yet provoke by way of retaliation.
There was a definite sense of inevitability about Bieber's fall from grace in 2013, and, let's be honest, a not so quiet sense of smugness when it happened.
The almost inadvertent contrast of grown and built, of enduring nature and transient architecture, underscores the quiet sense of a love lost.
In a clearing, I ran into a life-size, cotton-draped ancestor figure with cowry shell eyes standing like a ghostly guardian over this quiet sense of order.
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