Consider the Miami-bass bounce of "Rewind" alongside the quiet-storm-style lightning of "A Message" — both allow her robust, wide-ranging voice to twist and whimper and, in the best moments, take flight.
Apparently, the currents in the range of several amperes to several thousand amperes distributed between all the aerosol particles of the cloud are the currents of a quiet state of ball lightning.
The past couple of years have been relatively quiet ones for fiction, punctuated not by lightning strikes but by gentle, misty showers of high-quality work.
In an interview on Thursday night, Mr. Sanders had the quiet glow of a man who believed that political lightning was finally striking his cause.
Bill Ayers, who stayed quiet throughout the presidential campaign even as he became its central lightning rod, finally broke his silence on Election Day, discussing his experience with a few reporters who knocked on his Hyde Park door.
"This is such a peaceful, quiet beach community and when Kelsey was killed it was like a lightning bolt had hit the whole neighborhood.
The baths -- male only, quiet, orderly -- were well visited, yet one mysterious tub marked by a lightning bolt remained forever empty.
Today, his brash eloquence quieted to a whisper and his body slowed by Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali, once a lightning rod, has become a hero, as universally beloved as he once was despised, lionized and argued about.
I also think the quietest, most egregious e-waste problem is Apple's move from the 30-pin adapter to Lightning.
