Nobody would have complained if he'd have clattered the fan, Eejit, upside the head, instead of acting with quiet dignity in the face of extreme provocation as he did.
The labor got complicated, for various reasons — basically, the baby at the last moment decided to turn sideways — and Martha's doctor, acting with the quiet sureness that is the other side of Parisian insouciance, did an emergency cesarean.
European soldiers, with more experience of inter-communal conflict, should be doing the hardest work on the ground, with the Americans acting as a quiet but well-armed deterrent back-up.
This production, directed by Tony Walton, features a fine supporting cast: Jennifer Van Dyck acting up a quiet, quivery storm as Alan's snobbish, religious mother; Steve Hamilton as his repressive dad; Kathleen McNenny as Dysart's sensible sounding board; and Georgia Warner as the girl who stirs up Alan's confused erotic impulses.
He seemed very strange acting and quiet.
I was reserved and quiet, and acting friendly from sunrise to sunset exhausted me.
The monetary fund and the World Bank have repeatedly chastised European leaders for acting too slowly to quiet markets and for cutting budgets too quickly, weakening economic growth around the world and contributing to an unemployment crisis across the Continent.
His quiet transformations are acting of the kind you hardly notice; he makes quite the least of himself.
In solitary confinement, he writes, he "reconstructed from memory books and movies" he had once enjoyed and "tried to compose books and plays of my own, often acting out sequences in the quiet solitude of my cell".
If the group is acting relaxed, talking some and quiet some, then walk up nonchalantly when they're in a lull in the conversation.
