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705 examples of Quietly in a sentence

However, I think a great deal does happen, although quietly.
Ms. Midler very quietly called me over to speak with her before the entire company, thanking me for being so quiet during the shooting, not constantly calling "make-up", "hair" as the other impersonators did.
At this moment Klaus Maria watches on and seems to be a little shaken and quietly incensed by these actions.
However, as the movie went along, I became aware that this man was quietly weeping through the especially intense parts that dealt with the pain of separated families, and the sacrifices made by immigrants.
Cameron Dye has a nice Aidan Quinn soulfulness and Kevin Geer is quietly excellent, but they haven't much to play.
He said yes, then a moment later (after another reaction) quietly got up and moved to the back of the theater.
Solas is quietly masterful, a rewarding work of passion.
Quietly beautiful Dorothy Wilson first started work as a "secretary to the stars".
Not that they would allow themselves to be seduced by this deeply moving yet quietly disturbing film in the first place.
In McEwan's measured prose it kind of sneaks up on you quietly rather than being telegraphed as it is here.
Never did I feel the camera was conducting a scene, but quietly recording the event with intimate understanding.
A young man named Ricco(Chris Mitchum)gets a year off his sentence after serving two years in prison, and quietly sets out to even a score against mafioso king Don Vito(Arthur Kennedy), the man responsible for murdering his mob boss father so that he could have control over the entire city.
I've never been quite sure about the final scene of this movie: Lenny on the couch, quietly humming to himself, seemingly at a loss as the camera lingers on him for a thoughtful moment, is he already on his way to becoming dissatisfied again now that he has attained his desire or has he finally found some peace after his battle for Kelly?
The film starts out slowly and quietly as ecologist and free-lance photographer Pickett Smith(SAM ELLIOTT), doing a photo spread on the despoliation of the environment for an ecology magazine, makes his way along a Florida waterway by canoe.
Everyone in this quietly creepy film does a good job with their characters.
I quietly bawled, tears flowing, through the entire movie.
I remember it coming out in theatrical release in the late 1960s, and it received very good reviews but for some reason it quietly died off; or so it seems.
How about just plain quietly deranged?
They will wave at you or nod as you pass them, if that's the custom in your area, or perhaps they will just stroll quietly by you and you will never know the horrors they commit.
His character was as revolting, cold, and repugnantly racist as a human being could be, but Hackman played Sam Cayhall as a person with a surprising depth and emotion that, although you couldn't exactly like him, you find yourself quietly hoping his death penalty will be overturned as he plumbs the depths of his evil deeds and confronts his past.
And Marc is quietly freaking out.
Separatist movements in far-flung places like Tamil Nadu and Mizoram have been quietly defused by a simple formula: yesterday’s secessionists become today’s chief ministers (the equivalent of provincial or state governors) and tomorrow’s opposition leaders.
Politicians will not sit quietly, however, if the Fed attempts to raise rates.
Given this, the United Nations Security Council’s three Western permanent members (France, UK, and the US), along with Germany and the European Union, need to appoint a single senior envoy to engage continuously and quietly with Ukraine, NATO and Putin.
Over the last two decades, Chinese companies have been quietly gaining market share in Latin America and the Caribbean.
But if Musharraf were to refuse to go quietly, the generals could promise him a long list of public corruption charges that he must survive without their protection.
Gone are the days when Europeans quietly accepted the EU, despite some complaints.
Aimed at helping the US to maintain its strategic primacy in the Asia-Pacific region, the policy has been quietly welcomed by most regional actors, as it dovetails with their desire to check China’s hegemonic ambitions in the region.
Brazil has quietly dropped its decade-long commitment to floating its currency, and has moved to a de facto semi-fixed regime, with the exchange rate allowed to move only within a narrow band slightly above two reals to the US dollar.
The “symptoms” include fidgeting, losing things, talking excessively, and difficulty playing quietly or taking turns.
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