Whispers
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Nudges and winks and
whispers
traversed the room, but Tom sat still, with his arms upon the long, low desk before him, and seemed to study his book.
More example sentences with word whispers
But when I was six, the adults in my family began to speak in
whispers
and shushed me any time that I asked a question.
These films held what was too hurtful to say out loud, and they became more useful to me than the
whispers
of survivors and the occasional glimpse of a tattoo on a maiden aunt's wrist.
It's the stigma inside of others, it's the shame, it's the embarrassment, it's the disapproving look on a friend's face, it's the
whispers
in the hallway that you're weak, it's the comments that you're crazy.
Double standards for men and women, sex as a source of shame, family control limiting individual choices, and a vast gulf between appearance and reality: what people are doing and what they're willing to admit to, and a general reluctance to move beyond private
whispers
to a serious and sustained public discussion.
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