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Перевод: quietude
[существительное] покой ; тишина ; мир
Тезаурус:
- The name of the house means, literally, water running over stones, and a moment's quietude brings to life the sound of many waterfalls tumbling all around the 800-acre property.
- Thus some slow, desiccated waltzing and gentle leans have the quietude of an old couple on a dull mild day; sequences of deft, steppy footwork and sharp edged leaps have the high spirits of blustery sunshine, while a duet of rhythmic fidgety gestures has the feel of a lifelong argument continued during a rainy afternoon.
- Do this, and you will find in a railway station much of the quietude and consolation of a cathedral.
- For example, to Mrs Thrale he described the scene of this famed moment of quietude briefly - "on a green bank, with a small stream running at my feet, in the midst of savage solitude, with Mountains before me, and on either hand covered with heath" - then commented, "I looked round me, and wondered that I was not more affected, but the mind is not at all times equally ready to be put in motion."
- True, it had taken her several minutes to decide whether the keys should be bunched or splayed but she had ceased fidgeting with them and settled into an abnormal quietude.
- Wycliffe thought that time had passed the place by, that history must have piled day upon day, year upon year, in peace and quietude.
- In this context, then, it is entirely appropriate for Canon Roger Lloyd to speak of the quietude of Marylebone Station in London:
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