'quiet quiet' can be used as an adverb of manner in written English.
For example, "The river was flowing quietly, quiet quiet."
"Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet," Holomisa said.
Then 15 minutes later … quiet, quiet, quiet again.
"Romeo and Juliet" Quiet, quiet — shut up, over there!
If I asked Henry, would he — even once in his life — be capable of just answering yes or no? Quiet out here, quiet, quiet, quiet.
If I asked Henry, would he even once in his life be capable of just answering yes or no? Quiet out here, quiet, quiet, quiet.
Now, people there said, the block felt quiet — quieter than it ever did while Mr. Nowillo was alive.
Quiet, quieter than I've ever been with anyone, we shared the death, we stood quietly, the sky open and gray above us.
Yet outside these months the higher gorges are quieter – quiet enough today to see a heron swoop across the water with a harsh cry, in pursuit of unseen prey.
Eschewing the quiet-quiet-quiet-BANG dynamic that has blighted so many mainstream shockers recently, Mike Flanagan's feature-length expansion of his festival-favourite short makes the unfashionable decision to rely on a twisty script rather than loud noises to deliver its creepy thrills.
There are a couple of creepy moments in The Forest, interspersed with several more quiet-quiet-BANG cattle-prod scares, but the tourist's eye view of Japan grates (all live sushi and sidelined indigenous characters) as much as the absence of originality.
