#THE DEFINITON OF A QUIET STORM FREE#

Mary Grimley Mason, Working Against Odds, 2004 Attributing their behaviors to their personal dispositions, we decide Julie is shy and Jack is outgoing. She had just returned from San Francisco where she had spoken at the California Academy of Sciences and was about to leave for Montreal, Canada, to conduct workshops in diversity awareness. At forty-three, Virginia was used to telling her story and found time for our interview in her busy travel schedule. We found a quiet corner to sit and talk while her dog settled beside her chair. Walking with her guide dog, this young-looking woman arrived soon after I came in. 2005 I interviewed Virginia, who is totally blind, in a small local library. Lyla Bavadam, Saveur, October 2008 One change I notice is that I get sleepy earlier than I used to, sometimes by 8:30 or 9 if I am having a quiet evening at home. Inside is peaceful stillness, broken only by the sounds of crunched-on toast and rustling newspapers. Outside is the tumult of horse-drawn carriages, touts, and taxis. The second-story veranda looks out over a small garden and, beyond that, the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal Hotel.

Adjective Breakfast at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, a members-only institution founded in the city now called Mumbai in 1846 by British colonial officers, is a meal of quiet elegance. 2002Ĭan I have some quiet here? I'm trying to study. Maya Angelou, Gourmet, November 2002 When my parents needed peace and quiet, they didn't put me in front of the television to watch a 'Baby Einstein' video they plopped me in a chair to watch my mom do housework or cook.

The host put the record on a windup record player and Lester Young's saxophone yowled out of the silence. People sat down on the floor in groups, sharing bottles of wine and slivovitz. To become still, silent, or calm - often with down as, be soon quieted down.Noun My hostess told me she had some records I might like to hear and she called for quiet in the room. Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace. To calm to appease to pacify to lull to allay to tranquillize as, to quiet the passions to quiet clamors or disorders to quiet pain or grief. To stop motion in to still to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence. become quiet or quieter 'The audience fell silent when the speaker entered'-Ĭlick here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll make calm or still 'quiet the dragons of worry and fear' characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity 'a quiet life' 'a quiet throng of onlookers' 'quiet peace-loving people' 'the factions remained quiet for almost 10 years'

#THE DEFINITON OF A QUIET STORM FREE#

free of noise or uproar or making little if any sound 'a quiet audience at the concert' 'the room was dark and quiet' not showy or obtrusive 'clothes in quiet good taste' in a softened tone 'hushed voices' 'muted trumpets' 'a subdued whisper' 'a quiet reprimand' without untoward incident or disruption 'a placid existence' 'quiet times' free from disturbance 'a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay' 'the quiet waters of a lagoon' 'a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky' 'a smooth channel crossing' 'scarcely a ripple on the still water' 'unruffled water' (astronomy of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sun spots e.g. with little or no activity or especially agitation 'her hands rested quietly in her lap' 'the rock star was quietly led out the back door' (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly' as in'sit here as quiet as you can')

a period of calm weather 'there was a lull in the storm' an untroubled state free from disturbances the absence of sound 'he needed silence in order to sleep' 'the street was quiet' A disposition free from stress or emotion

The definiton of a quiet storm