Sentence examples for quiet appreciation from inspiring English sources

That leaves him and his colleagues conferring upon themselves quiet appreciation for their work at what is officially known as the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, which has an annual operating and maintenance budget of about $800 million.

In summer its 2,500 inhabitants and 2,500 cows are joined by 2,500 tourists, mostly British visitors of a certain age happy to wander in quiet appreciation of the village's traditional Tyrolean houses, geranium-lined window boxes and flowers.

The coastal community experience emphasises quiet appreciation of a small community in a natural setting.

And that's what makes it so English: it's about the quiet appreciation of what you have.

Despite this, the obvious excitement involved threatens to turn quiet appreciation into an extreme sport.

But English and French officials, and their wealthy corporations with financial ties to Nazi Germany, greeted the fascist march with a shrug, quiet appreciation, or offers of cooperation.

The Czechs had a quiet, somber appreciation of life that I found refreshing after years of the witty and anxious American style of conversation.

Painted white, with a minimum of decoration, these areas are meant to encourage quiet learning and appreciation of various stimuli.

Nobody asked for an autograph, nobody craned their neck, nobody so much as smiled in his direction and murmured a quiet word of appreciation.

Government officials made only quiet gestures of appreciation for the billions of dollars immigrants send home each year -- Mexico's third largest source of income after oil and tourism.

Many of us who like to portray ourselves as liberal, leftwingers do disdain the poppy because we have decided that we know what it stands for, rather than simply accepting it for what it is: a tiny, pure and quiet token of appreciation for the sacrifice of others.