Adjective : a quiescent mind. From Dictionary.com.
Behind him, uninvolved kitchen appliances hummed quiescently. From Wordnik.com. [Cyber Way]
She was pretending to look down quiescently at her folded hands but in fact she was studying the captain. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
I think tomorrow will want to know how we could have meekly and quiescently allowed our civil rights to be abridged. From Wordnik.com. [March 2006] Reference
Of the quiescently frozen dessert and of all frozen after-meal treats you may eat, but absolutely not in the living room. From Wordnik.com. [Laws Concerning Food and Drink] Reference
Ordinarily the recorder would lie essentially suppressed, quiescently tracking only the routine mechanical functions of the ship. From Wordnik.com. [THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK] Reference
He addressed some words to George, who sat on the bedside quiescently, while the man went to the table, and took up a knife that was upon it. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
But Natalie has never been one for popsicles, suspecting there are many other quiescently frozen confections available that provide more oomph. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday, August 18 – The Bleat.] Reference
For example, to judge from the film's animated interludes, the "successful" teacher is one who literally pours information into a student's head while the child sits passively, quiescently awaiting the enlightenment. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Deily-Swearingen: Superman Revealed] Reference
Rumor suggests Harlan Ellison may have written the original script; asked about the episode at 1978's IgunaCon II science fiction convention, however, Ellison described the episode as "a quiescently glistening cherem of pus.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sudden Curve:] Reference
"Nor I," she said, quiescently and letting him lead her to a chair. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
He either rids himself of them, or suffers as quiescently as he may. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
So she lay back in Keenan's clasp quiescently, unresistingly, but watchfully. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
"They would like to mug you routinely while you quiescently thank them for the privilege of being mugged.". From Wordnik.com. [Berks county news] Reference
Rebecca followed her hostess in, and the boy, who had waited quiescently, climbed the steps with the trunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural] Reference
Of the quiescently frozen dessert and of all frozen aftermeal treats you may eat, but absolutely not in the living room. From Wordnik.com. [The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.] Reference
On the other hand, the ingredient was ineffective in quiescently frozen solutions, as is used in popsicles or ice lollies. From Wordnik.com. [FoodNavigator RSS] Reference
Imogene was not among the phantoms who visited him; and he accepted her absence as quiescently as he accepted the presence of the others. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Summer] Reference
17 File format: PPT Title: Additional file 2 Description: To study the HDACI response in a cell population, we used quiescently infected T - lymphoid Jurkat cell clones. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The first Douma was quite an impracticable body, though when it was dissolved there was a great outcry about it in Russia and Europe; yet although it was a rather deplorable thing that the first experiment in representative government should so speedily come to an end, nevertheless in a very short time people accepted the dissolution of the Douma quite quiescently, because they began to feel that, after all, it was more or less a failure. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitutional Problem in Russia] Reference
It was even worth reflection at that time whether, if the whole adjustment of the future were placed at our own disposition, there would not be less danger incurred, and more promise of a prompt, healthy, and powerful development on this continent of those grand purposes of national existence which the true American people have always had in view and at heart, if this plan were to be adopted, than if, on the contrary, the whole South were either quiescently, by the subsidence of the rebellion, or forcibly, to be reinstated within the limits of the Union, the institution of slavery remaining intact. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
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