It is terrifying even in the quiet moments; it is most terrifying in the quietest moments.
"The thought of having to sit still [and deal with] their inner demons is terrifying," says Mintz. "Quiet is untenable".
A subplot involving a character called the Thin Man, a mysterious monk and visions inspired by the Book of Revelation remains tantalizingly sketchy, but Lang's visual audacity and thematic ambition are breathtakingly apparent, as is his astonishing sense of scale, which enabled him to swoop from terrifying sublimity to piercing, quiet intimacy with a single cut.
She had initially kept quiet, terrified of the repercussions for reporting him.
Instead, he kept quiet, terrified of what would happen to his pregnant wife, Ammara, and his family, if he spoke out.
For this is a terrifying dystopian state, and fascist infiltration reaches into the quietest backwaters.
Every evening at dinner, his wife was present, quiet, obviously terrified and casually humiliated by him in front of us.
Jack, only a few days before his wedding, begins carrying on with Stephanie; Miles and the blond, husky-voiced Maya, both of them taking their time (Miles is terrified), retreat to a quiet nook, where they earnestly discuss "the life of wine … the people who picked the grape".
Driving in the Beast is an exhilarating, bordering on terrifying, experience, even at the 30-mile-per-hour speed Mr. Kroplick maintains on a quiet side road near the garage.
