He was quiet and courteous, with something silent about him — did he wear Hush Puppies?
Something silent, something eerie.
Put them to bed thirty minutes to an hour before hand, let them relax and watch TV or read them a quiet book, listen to music etc. Set an alarm for your child, tell them if they wake up before that time, to go back to bed or sit in their bed and do something silent like watch television or read.
A friend of ours writes...that he's been asking himself, "What does it mean when something looks silent?" He asked this after seeing TV pictures of the damaged reactor at Chernobyl.
In a Comment which ran in the May 26 , 1986 issue, Bernstein compared the stillness of the Chernobyl images on TV to the atom-bomb tests he had witnessed in Nevada in the late fifties: Recently, I have been asking myself, "What does it mean when something looks silent?" I thought of this question after I saw the TV pictures taken from a helicopter of the damaged reactor at Chernobyl.
"I don't think that if you keep something entirely silent and in a box that it can get any better".
"Netflix is still something of the silent intruder in the UK," said the report's author, Toby Syfret.
There is something of the silent meetinghouse, awaiting visitations of the Spirit, about all his works.
For one thing, he's unflappable; for another, he's a tough customer, something of a silent assassin.
In the tale, two anatomists see something inexplicable and silent, the ghostly face of a man they dissected.
The young clerk at one of the video stores near me vanished last month, after two-and-a-half years in which he went from noticeably thin to gaunt, with red welts that appeared and disappeared, and a personality that changed, behind the counter, from polite to brittle, and then to something more like silent, angry, embattled and sad.
