It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. |
I may lay down my weary head now on the mother earth that hushes all her children to rest at last. |
If he cannot handle a problem, he hushes it up and says he doesn't want to talk about it. |
The size of the room and the scale of the monuments stuns and hushes the visitor. |
The form of things drifts, particulates, rushes, opaquifies, holds its breath, teeters, blows, hushes. |
My guess is that just one of his additions could only have come from an outsider: the cruelly funny moment when, in the RSL club, the lights dim, and everyone hushes and stands as a speaker on the wall honors the fallen. |