Sentence examples for quiet argument from inspiring English sources

A more quiet argument would have been much more effective.

While Hardy, significantly, defends Marsh's role in the incident, it is a quiet argument for the way that stories reoccur, refusing to belong to any one person.

Do not expect tears to fill your eyes with the usual anguished feeling during Shylock's most famous speech, the quiet argument for Jewish humanity in which he asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" and other rhetorical questions.

Acted with a moving purity by the cast under the clarifying direction of Mick Gordon, "Deep Cut" broke no dramatic ground in terms of style or form, but its quiet argument for theater as a forum for the interrogation of the ways and means of the establishment clearly struck a powerful chord with both audiences and critics at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The conflicting thoughts continued creating a quiet argument in the back of my brain, and I lived with an undercurrent of internal tension.

Soon, faced with the reality that a third party run--be it by disgruntled conservatives or neocons--would only assure defeat in the fall, the elders of the party will start to make quiet arguments about why Trump is not so bad, not compared to Hillary at least.

A combination of quiet, serious argument and mass demonstrations produced the desired result: the proposals were shelved.

Even if Tea Party members are right that any racist signs are those of mischief-makers, even if Glenn Beck had chosen any other Saturday to hold his rally, it would be hard to quiet the argument about the Tea Party and race.

She was quiet, disliked arguments and shouting, the only child of elderly parents.

A study of nearly 4,000 men and women from Framingham, Mass., asked whether they typically vented their feelings or kept quiet in arguments with their spouse.

The calls for unity may have had another purpose: to quiet domestic arguments over the government's peace talks with the P.K.K., the Kurdish separatist group, according to Guven Sak, the director of the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey.