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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.
Your encouraging whispers in my whirlpool of despair, holding me and heaving me to shores of sanity, to live again and to love again."
It is the everyday soundscape that arises from the audience themselves: their coughs, their sighs, their rustles, their whispers, their sneezes, the room, the wood of the floors and the walls expanding and contracting, creaking and groaning with the heat and the cold, the pipes clanking and contributing.
It understands our surrounding world and whispers to me in voice or sends a vibration to my fingers.
I heard the whispers.
This morning we've heard a lot of whispers about Tom O'Reilly's wrap-up on Saturday.
Einstein, did you hear whispers?
Whispers follows the original book very closely, seemingly until the production company ran out of money.
I heard whispers he was meant for the role but they found out he couldn't dance.
He doesn't seem to suffer as much as you would expect from someone completely paralyzed for over 28 years, he has no issues with God (and one would probably expect that too), the people around him seem to be the perfect slaves (I can't get out of my mind Bergman's Cries and Whispers, similar to this one in many respects, which simply bursts with emotions, and not all of them humane) etc.
Later one, the Frenchman whispers something into Stewart's ear after he is attacked and dying.
The gynaecological nightmare of 'Cries and Whispers'?
In the wake of destruction, the world falls into silence, and memories of those lost flicker across flames, whispers in bleeding hearts, and love taken rises up to heaven to tell of how they lived and how they will never be forgotten.
The young men who call themselves "the Edukators" want to stir the villa residents of Berlin into hearing whispers that they have too much money: to remind them of the other half of the world and how the other half lives.
The absence of dialogue between the two principals (everything that needs saying being conveyed in whispers) was an interesting way to go and the look of the movie is (as usual, for this particular director) beautiful... but the surreal ending, which on the face of it seems to have no reason for being whatsoever, undermines much of what has come before.
It looks like Jonathan Cold put on a few extra pounds and and is acting more like Marlon Brando with his almost silent whispers.
Soon, the gulag was virtually emptied; a political thaw began, spurring whispers of freedom that could not be contained.
When the charge of “fake news” proved inadequate to silence the whispers, Trump pulled out the big (still imaginary) guns, tweeting that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower’s “wires tapped” before the election.
Yes, there are whispers that the pace of fiscal consolidation could be slowed; indeed, France has already been given more time to hit its deficit target.
Logic and statistics do not authorize the inference, but a stubborn intimation whispers to us that the coming of another Michelangelo or Shakespeare or Mozart is doubtful.
As welcome as Clinton’s recent clear words were on the need to defend the right of countries to decide their own fate, you don’t have to go very far in Europe to hear whispers that some kind of new “Finlandization” might be a reasonable compromise for countries like Ukraine and Georgia.
Other large-scale financial commitments were made to Oman and Jordan, both Saudi allies that have managed to silence early whispers of mass protest.
I recall now only the first hushed, frightened whispers of disaster from a family friend.
Whispers were making the rounds about my private life, and I decided it was time to come out.
Yet there are whispers that Trump may do just that.
One whispers something to his neighbor, who then whispers that information to the next child, and so on, around the circle.
To the Dutch their whispers are most likely about Philips.
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