Word: quietness
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...starts like this: six students sitting around an oval table, eyes on the projector screen, faces barely visible in the sodden light of an early March morning. Their dress is standard-issue—black wind pants, olive green windbreakers, and gray T-shirts. They are attentive. They are quiet. They are getting a lesson in warfare from the Spartan King Leonidas...
...served to remind the fans of what could have been a great performance.The impeccable serving and crisp passing that sparked this sole win were conspicuously absent from the first two frames, a fact that did not escape the players.“We came out really cold and really quiet,” Weintraub said. “The passing the first two games was really rough. It’s hard to run an offense like that.”The difference between games was quite clear in the team’s kill percentage, which rose from...
...promised, meant companies like his could offer it all. "Vivendi had the correct vision: the conversion of broadband and wireless to bring any content to anyone, anywhere, anytime, on any handset," Messier says. "That is all reality now. Anyone who saw me as a foolish guy in 2001 is quiet today...
...newsroom at Moscow's Novaya Gazeta does not feel like a battleground. It's a series of cramped, fluorescent-lit offices, as quiet as a library in the hallways. But behind the closed doors, there's energy. Young journalists (average age: around 30) pore over the stories and photographs that will make the next day's issue of a newspaper in a very dangerous business--being the most strident voice of opposition in Vladimir Putin's Russia...
...clashing psychological paths. “Becausethe play is about these relationships,it’s different every time,” Pecci said.Interpreting their characters has challengedthe actors to expand the skills theyhave developed in previous productions.Renaud’s character is focal to the playbut very quiet, forcing Renaud to performwhat she calls “an exercise in beingstill onstage.” As an actor, who generallyhas the impulse to move and be activeonstage, it has been a way for Renaud tolearn how to simply sit and exist. Meanwhile,the entrance of Pastel?...