"Amélie" was a big hit in France and will, quite deservedly, receive a lot of attention here, but "Happenstance," a quieter, less visually extravagant entertainment, should not be overlooked.
Stephanie Snyder's sculptured wax blocks are visually successful but have a quiet subjectivity that makes them less immediately gripping.
Fourteen naps and fifteen periods of quiet wakefulness were visually scored on a 20 s epoch basis by two independent scorers, according to standard criteria by the AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep (Iber et al., 2007).
The new show is also louder (Mr. Harmon's version was surprisingly quiet for a sitcom) and visually blander, with a heavy reliance on close-ups.
Tomie dePaola's gentle earth- and jewel-toned two-dimensional illustrations, almost Coptic in feeling, reflect the text, with Scholastica's quiet time in the convent overshadowed visually by Benedict's adventures.
An emerging safety issue peculiar to electric and hybrid vehicles relates to whether they are too quiet to warn pedestrians (and especially visually impaired pedestrians) about the presence of the vehicle [26, 49].
Remember that in the early days of DVD, the choices run to the big, loud and visually arresting, which, with some exceptions, work against smaller, quieter films.
The film is well acted but visually murky, and the appending of a mawkish English-language protest song at the end ruins its quiet, somber conclusion.
Although the fit to KEP in Fig. 3 is visually less impressive than that at TDC, note that it is for the north south field component, while the (typically quieter) east west component is presented for TDC.
Artists responded visually.
