Sentence examples for quivering air from inspiring English sources

The idea was just to hear quivering air".

Breath, motion, quivering air, sudden plunge or turbulence: how perfectly Lanyon adapts his marks for every sensation.

The quivering white air of a hot day.

Citizens have spoken and sung for many years of the "Berliner Luft" — "the nervous, endlessly quivering Berlin air," as Conrad Alberti wrote in 1889, "which works upon people like alcohol, morphine, cocaine, exciting, inspiring, relaxing, deadly".

David Hare's excellent, crisp adaptation, which boldly sends the word "impotent" quivering in the air, is particularly deft at suggesting this aspect.

"At first it was slight, more of a quivering of the air, a series of windy rumblings, of vague, barely noticeable atmospheric flutterings".

A smoke ring danced from her kisser, quivering through the air like a life preserver tossed from the trembling hands of a ship's captain toward the arms of a crew member flailing in the icy waters below.

"It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out.