Modern audiences, with their expectations of excitement, are made to feel the power of quietness.
The first visit to the Arctic circle hit her hard: Lapland offered a possibility to live hassle-free and vanity-free everyday life, to breathe fresh air, to feel placid amid the quietness.
"That kind of quietness makes me feel kind of scared".
In other words, have you or your partner stopped trying to talk to each other about the things that bother you, saying, "What's the point?" Contrary to what it might feel like at first, sometimes that quietness isn't a sign that things have improved, but rather a sign that someone has given up.
Visitors also have to experience the Cognac universe: visit cellars, feel the perfume of time and the quietness of the eaux de vie aging patiently.
Perhaps it's those subtle internal changes that we praise, the quietness of the moment and the awe we feel in our whole bodies.
On the days that end with you running off your unit, or dragging yourself from there, and eventually settling into the quietness of your car where you cry hot tears, those days you feel a little burned out.
As a Satie-elegant score by Nico Muhly plays, Jones and Keenan-Bolger perform, with quietness and largeness, the little domestic minuets that Steve Hoggett, the movement director, has choreographed for them; the actors feel supported by their team.
He thought about beginning with the quietness of that and continuing with how he felt physically uncomfortable on the way to the bus, then began, for some reason maybe simply from being in the sunlight 20 or 30 minutes while sitting on the sidewalk to feel a sensation of well-being he hadn't felt in months.
His response to most situations is instinctively physical: it was only when he stood on the forestage and delivered the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech with rapt quietness that I felt this was a Macbeth with a rich interior life.
