Sentence examples for profoundly quiet from inspiring English sources

It was profoundly quiet except for the birds.

In exploring the psychological processes of grief and revenge, this profoundly quiet, deeply disturbing film doesn't make a misstep (Holden).

In exploring the psychological processes of grief and revenge, the profoundly quiet, deeply disturbing film doesn't make a misstep (Holden).

But then this busiest of actors could also become profoundly quiet, as in "Don't Bother to Knock" (1952), in which he played a womanizing heel on a visit to Manhattan.

The typical American movie is so committed to noisy spectacle and shameless emotional button-pushing that when a film as profoundly quiet as "In the Bedroom" comes along, it feels almost miraculous, as if a shimmering piece of art had slipped below the radar and through the minefield of commerce.

"Another extraordinary sound experience was at the edge of a heavy but gentle avalanche of snow from cliffs towering high on either side of the narrow channel through which the ship was passing -- the chilling powder enveloped us all on the deck, with a whisper and hiss that paradoxically seemed to be more profoundly quiet than the previous silence; no one could speak for minutes afterwards".

That is sobering stuff, but the most egregious misconduct shown in the documentary concerns not Avery but his nephew, Brendan Dassey — a stone-quiet, profoundly naïve, learning-disabled teen-ager with no prior criminal record, who is interrogated four times without his lawyer present.

No other work interrogates our recent moral history so profoundly, or with such quiet humanity.

The poems connecting personal grief with Aeneas's journey to the underworld are brilliantly quiet and profoundly moving.

For Christine, who speaks most profoundly through the eerie quiet of her nearly inert form — and then later through a possibly miraculous physical transformation — belief is inscribed on the body itself.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — There is a certain spot in this war-ravaged city that is unusually quiet and profoundly lush, where the trees are older and dripping with vines and where the branches interlace over the road, creating a canopy that filters the usually harsh equatorial sun into something softer.