Sentence examples similar to hushed motion from inspiring English sources

When Max blows apart an aggressive robot, everything slips into slow motion, calm and hushed, and, with a flicker of pity in our amazement, we see the machine bloom into a thousand fragments, like the bursting TV set at the end of Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point".

But what is not often noted, except in hushed tones by very concerned officials at the motion picture academy, is that those ratings have been steadily slipping in recent years.

The organ is a hushed undercurrent in the slow movement.

In the outer movements of K488, those long lines were energised and playful, the piano tripping through the finale like some kind of perpetual motion machine; the introspective slow movement brought out that hushed, confiding tone that the piano seems to save only for Uchida.

The music is a slow-motion take on blues, hymns and waltzes, played with a hushed, almost surreptitious touch.

"Videotape," all hushed and sepulchral?

Spectators wait in hushed anticipation.

Whole stretches were hushed and self-contained.

Everyone speaks in hushed murmurs.

Her voice grows hushed and forceful.

Grumbling began, accompanied by hushed obscenities.