Sentence examples for greater quiet from inspiring English sources

To us, their silence – the greater quiet of the whole house – tells a different and less bearable story.

"They think it's a great, quiet existence.

Now it's a small public park – and a great, quiet spot.

"I like to grieve in the great quiet spaces we have here".

Outside, there is a great quiet, the streets holding their breath - there's a feeling that nothing is happening, yet something incredible is just about to.

The question would not go away: what of that great, quiet swath of public opinion that is fearful of austerity, but will not respond to the unions' time-honoured practice of appointing angry men to issue standard-issue rhetoric?

At intervals the brothers interrupted to cheer old Charley, but when Charley had been unanimously elected it was discovered that there was no Charley Andrews and another man was elected amid great quiet.

This extraordinary collection of 45 works by major 20th-century artists is another one of these oases -- a place of great, quiet beauty tucked into the landscape not far from Interstate 287.

Island friends still speak of the love that the Bentons had for the Vineyard, and Benton himself wrote that Martha's Vineyard had a profound effect on him by providing "a homely subject matter and a great quiet for reflection".

"There was once a boy who loved... purity and God with a great quiet passion inside him," reads a line in the scenario describing Jim Tyrone; indeed, wrote O'Neill, Jim had actually contemplated giving up "self & the world to worship of God".

Or is the great quiet something to behold and sit with for a long time?