Sentence examples for somewhat hushed from inspiring English sources

For the time being, Andermatt remains somewhat hushed and staid.

We must look for anything large and grey, the size of a small cow," announced Stein Erik our guide in measured, somewhat hushed phrases, as if we were about to be ushered into the presence of royalty.

His arrest was somewhat hushed up at the time, which may have raised more questions than it prevented.

At St. Ann's, before the house opens, an actor playing the role of a guard escorts the ensemble, who are dressed in prison garb, into the theatre, in front of a hushed and somewhat startled crowd.

They joined our table and spoke in hushed tones about the conditions underground, which had improved somewhat since Henry and Patalarga's last visit.

After an hour of hushed chattering, deft balancing and sewing, we have covered the Curlicue with a patchwork quilt, leaving it quaint and somewhat infantilised, and me with a childish grin.

"Videotape," all hushed and sepulchral?

Spectators wait in hushed anticipation.

Whole stretches were hushed and self-contained.

Everyone speaks in hushed murmurs.

Also notable, if somewhat briefer, is "Lonesome," a recent work by Giya Kancheli, an idiosyncratic Georgian composer whose music leaves room for silence and calls for the most carefully hushed tones, as well as quadruple forte explosions of sound.