Voorbeelden van quietness

• The relative quietness of today's modern jet engines mean that birds don't hear them coming.

• There was a moment of quietness in the room.

• A local pastor described the mood in town as a shocked quietness.

• There is an awkward quietness among the 11 men who sit waiting in the classroom.

• It is a quietness which speaks (but never shouts) of sophisticated taste, of hidden capacities - a quietness which is assiduously achieved rather than simply discovered.

• His or her quietness or slowness to respond may be misinterpreted by others as aloofness, disinterest, or unresponsiveness.

• Much was said in quietness (not a mode any of us is best known for).

• The delicacy and quietness of the work as a whole suggests a sort of siren's song.