Sentence examples for strikingly quiet from inspiring English sources

The President and his campaign have been strikingly quiet about plans for a second term.

THE good news for the United States is that Fallujah, the city at the heart of Iraq's insurgency has, for the time being, fallen strikingly quiet.

Also, unlike so many works that came in its wake, long episodes of "Poeme Electronique are strikingly quiet, restrained and gentle.

At a brainstorming session held in the basement of the Capitol building on Friday, Obama's economic team grappled with ways to address the subprime mortgage crisis, the credit crunch and a slump in consumer spending that has left shopping centres strikingly quiet this Christmas.

It was electric-quick, had instant torque, and was strikingly quiet.

Perhaps even more strikingly, a period in a dark quiet room, i.e. sensory restriction, enhanced recognition in participants with mild cognitive impairment, a prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease (Della Sala et al., 2005).

A strikingly pale woman of twenty-four with a quiet, slightly lisping voice, she was dressed all in black: T-shirt, tight jeans, and round-toed boots.

Mr. Tappon, whose feet give him a sensational liftoff in jumps, is strikingly assertive, a mold breaker; Mr. Riddick, a quieter personality who returns to the stage in the third movement, has compelling grace and physical dexterity.

In fact, the use of the dog in the quiet village of Herkimer, N.Y., is strikingly similar to the way dogs have been used by the military during more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In the final two sonatas, the strikingly similar codas are composed of two parts, the first quiet and attenuated, creating a sense of expectation, the second animated, dissipating the final tension in decisive, agitated motion, ending with with fortissimo octaves.

Together, these factors result in a community that is strikingly rural, where working farms coexist with suburban tracts, and where quiet is prized.