Massaquoi, dressed in head-to-toe black, tall even sitting down, has a quiet seriousness about him, and veers with equal intensity between glowering at his phone and unwavering eye contact.
Though the slow movement of Schubert's final piano sonata does haunt two of the songs rather persistently, many of the other quotations are much less intrusive, and combined with the restraint of Nyman's instrumental writing, for a typical band of strings, saxophones, brass and piano, the whole work has a quiet seriousness that is very effective.
At Marlborough public school in Wiltshire, she became captain of the hockey club and gained a reputation for quiet seriousness, unlike some of her contemporaries.
They also suit the quiet seriousness of a study or office.
When Harry talks about his life — as he did, with great affability, one evening last August, at a corner table in a dark Los Angeles restaurant — the diminutive, auburn-haired Nelson listens with quiet seriousness.
Its quiet seriousness was matched by two other notable films – Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, among the best films so far made about the Iraq war, and the Coen Brothers AA Serious Man, a painfully funny transposition of the Book of Job to the American Midwest, which solemnly claimed in its closing credits that "no Jews had been harmed in the making of this movie".
"It was, in all seriousness, a quiet revolution".
"It was, in all seriousness, a quiet revolution". It was this sense of togetherness, the calm and quiet determination, that most women remember from that day.
Allie Jones made a fair assessment on The Cut, noting that Affleck's Oscar campaign has billed him (somewhat falsely) as a quiet Hollywood outsider whose seriousness denied him top-tier stardom.
It seems that The F.E. artists are leading a quiet rebellion against the increasing seriousness within the rest of the dance music scene.
Returning to a much different Prussia than she left, a preacher observed that "our dear queen is far from joyful, but her seriousness has a quiet serenity... her eyes have lost their former sparkle, and one sees that they have wept much, and still weep".
