This is just one of the innumerable cultural messages that slash away at our soul, cut by cut, until we quietly succumb to a learned helplessness or worse, until we internalize the hatred and allow it to erode our sense of self.
She remained its principal until 1990, quietly refusing the title usually offered in such cases.
Oil firms have until now quietly opposed Scottish independence, fearing it would cause upheaval and high taxes.
Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister until last month, quietly dropped his aggressive stance, focusing instead on the need to cooperate with Washington.
Until he quietly visited Europe last year and met a delegation of Old China Hands in Beijing last month, Hu was a total mystery to Westerners.
If it is successful, it would join two other companies, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the Cryonics Institute in suburban Detroit, that have until recently quietly engaged in cryonics.
Many of the smaller Gulf states have, until recently, quietly worried as much about Saudi Arabia, a state that was created by conquest under an extremist Wahhabi ideology, as about the more distant regional heavyweight over the water.Uncle Sam's clodhoppersThe Arabs' discomfort with their superpower patron has been another reason for toning down differences with Iran.
It remained up there for a couple of weeks, until falling quietly, unseen, to the floor.
In the face of this opposition the administration vacillated until it quietly dropped the idea after the armistice.
He stayed alive, there, for a full minute: contorting, screaming, choking on his own blood, crying out in pain and for mercy, and I could have pitifully finished him with a headshot I suppose, but instead I just waited until he quietly stopped moving and died.
