On his worst days, the 20-year-old Los Angeles native said he would simply go to sleep early to quiet the hunger pangs.
While the world closely followed events in Mali when bullets were flying, it has been much less interested in quiet deaths from hunger.
Westworld's head programmer, Bernard Lowe, played with quiet intensity by Hunger Games' actor, Jeffrey Wright, explains to a lab colleague early on in the episode that Dr. Ford had included a surprise addition to the latest tech update coined Reveries.
The international response to this particular catastrophe is striking in Haiti, which over the last several years has seen storms, floods, political violence and quieter tragedies like hunger and disease claim tens of thousands of lives and livelihoods.
In fact, after Andrés navigated Houston's flooded streets to help feed the city following Hurricane Harvey, he learned an important lesson about relief operations: You need a facility with a large-capacity kitchen to prepare meals on a massive scale; otherwise you'll never quiet a city's hunger pains following a disaster.
But while the bullets and shells fired into their city were a constant threat, Trbonja and his neighbours faced another, quieter foe from within: hunger.
Occasional characterizations of the man from his colleagues strike unsettling, reverberant notes, such as Agnes de Mille's description of "a brooding quiet, a kind of unappeased hunger" in the man that she felt matched his music.
The record's best tracks, "Long Way Down," "Hunger" and the quiet-storm tension of "Ego," strive for and deliver singularly powerful moments.
"The quiet presence of non-acute, endemic hunger leads to no newspaper turmoil, no political agitation, no riots in the Indian parliament.
That hunger is still there.
And in February, after years of relative quiet, the detainees began protesting, beginning a hunger strike that has involved more and more prisoners.
