— not a Place, Yet name it so; — where Time and weary Space Fettered from flight, with night-mare sense of fleeing, Strive for their last crepuscular half-being, — Lank Space, and scytheless Time with branny hands Barren and soundless as the measuring sands, Not mark'd by flit of Shades, — unmeaning they As moonlight on the dial of the day!
They remain soundless as he composes himself and goes on.
And then I back out of that room, as soundlessly as I came, having left behind: Joe Gould's teeth.
For instance, many scenes feature no ambient sound at all, which is especially noticeable when they take place in a convertible that's moving in traffic: there's no sound of motors or wind, a car door closes soundlessly as characters speak clearly to each other, the snap of a cigarette-lighter cover is the only sound that's heard.
What I share with these people is an ephemeral determination to survive that comes and goes not unlike the male adolescents who slip and slide soundlessly as they can in and out of one another's beds, and the beds of girls, lost in a place where making babies is an enormous act of hope and making unspeakable connections to one another is a slavery not one of them can fathom or ever will.
The Guardian's art critic, Adrian Searle, wrote: "The portrait is as soundless and smooth as an undertaker's makeover".
Smiles do not become it; the mouth tightens, by reflex, to a crinkled line, and once, in "Take Shelter," it gapes wide in a terrible and soundless O, as the hero wakes from a nightmare.
In the abstract language of Rothko, such literal detail a bridge of empathy between the real spectator and the presentation of a transcendental landscape is no longer necessary; we ourselves are the monk before the sea, standing silently and contemplatively before these huge and soundless pictures as if we were looking at a sunset or a moonlit night".
Maryland law allows soundless videotaping of public activities as long as no one's reasonable expectation of privacy is breached.
Often the television is on, showing soccer games or soap operas, soundlessly so as not to compete with the blare of the jukebox.
THE AUTOMATIC DOORS SWISH soundlessly open as I step into the hospital's cancer center.
