Sentence examples for piercing quiet from inspiring English sources

A subplot involving a character called the Thin Man, a mysterious monk and visions inspired by the Book of Revelation remains tantalizingly sketchy, but Lang's visual audacity and thematic ambition are breathtakingly apparent, as is his astonishing sense of scale, which enabled him to swoop from terrifying sublimity to piercing, quiet intimacy with a single cut.

A man was checking out books at the desk when his cell phone began to ring, piercing the quiet of the library.

The scraping pierced the quiet like thunder.

He never turned on her in public, but the sound of him raging at her pierced the quiet of the night, sometimes all night.

— Gone are the shouts of "Fried chicken!" that pierced the quiet during Sergio García's swing at the United States Open, in response to García's unfunny joke that he would have his adversary, Tiger Woods, over to dinner and serve him, of all dishes, that one.

Around 8 PM last Thursday, a loud pop pierced the quiet streets of Southeast Seminole Heights, a suburban neighborhood in Tampa, Florida.

IT is just a metal door with three windows, the kind meant to keep the clamor of an elementary school hallway from piercing a classroom's quiet.

On the set, Mr. Rohmer, tall, with piercing blue eyes, was a quiet, intensely absorbed director presiding over a hushed atmosphere, his crews and actors engaging in little of the chatter common on other film projects.

GUNFIRE pierced the night quiet.

(A nearby elementary school occasionally pierces the residential quiet, but only during recess).

High-pitched wails and angry shouts pierced the damp quiet of a Queens neighborhood yesterday morning as about 30 people gathered at the home of a former paramilitary leader from Haiti to protest his presence in the United States.