When the engine cuts, sky and water tilt gently upward, silence washing over us like the floodwater drowning the willows on either bank.
But by No 20 (played on Friday night by Maki Namekawa, who totally became one with the music), the Etudes have again slowed down to a Schubertian pace, ending so gently that silence and sound nearly blend into one another – much the way old age, if achieved, can render the elderly as calm as a baby again, as life and death overlap.
U.S. intelligence intercepts show that Mohammed bin Salman was intent on silencing Mr. Khashoggi, who frequently, if gently, criticized him, by bringing the journalist back to the kingdom.
In the background the voice of her mother, recounting the birth of Ms. Wedding's aunt, gently punctuated the silence.
The piano's "enormous moonlit smile" beamed through this intimate programme of songs, mazurkas and nocturnes, sung with warmth and wonder by Upshaw and played with delicacy and intelligence by Ax, each phrase gently curving into silence, with none of the angst and ego commonly associated with Chopin.
So may you rest gently into the silence of this season.
This clip of the tsunami hitting the coast begins with silence and gently rocking boats, before the water overcomes a wall and begins tearing through the streets.
"My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence he gently and calmly said, 'Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever,'" Bezos said.
The dancers are accompanied by the drummer Bobby Previte who creates a place for noise, as well a silence: by gently tapping his drumstick against the bristles of a brush, he illuminates the spaces in between sounds.
White states: Shvetashvatara Upanishad, another late 1st millennium BCE text, states a procedure in which the body is held in upright posture, the breath is restrained and mind is meditatively focussed, preferably inside a cave or a place that is simple, plain, of silence or gently flowing water, with no noises nor harsh winds.
