Adjective : a silent motor. ,a silent prayer. ,a silent assent. ,The records are silent about this crime. ,The "b" in "doubt" is a silent letter. ,silent gallstones. From Dictionary.com.
The sound of 'silents': Now playing: Oakland pianist's ability to improvise. From Wordnik.com. [J. Weekly] Reference
At the Siffblog, David Jeffers highlights the silents. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 5/11.] Reference
I'll be especially interested in any reviews of the silents. From Wordnik.com. [Early Howard Hawks Blog-a-Thon] Reference
I have oftin, smokin my own shroot in silents in a corner of the. From Wordnik.com. [Novels by Eminent Hands] Reference
Both these movies could have been silents if they weren't so loud. From Wordnik.com. [Offshoring the Audience] Reference
This is what's made the silents so effective in dealing with people. From Wordnik.com. [Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069] Reference
Isn't that the movie Tod Browning remade from one of his own silents?. From Wordnik.com. [Horror of Horrors] Reference
Hollywood was a cow pasture, but the silents were moving into their heyday. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
I write the Classic Corner column because I can remember the “silents!”. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » The 16-Year-Old Virgin] Reference
I need to find some of her silents and actually watch a pic of hers, though. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday, March 26 – The Bleat.] Reference
First cameras were huge so early silents were filmed pantomimes in a long shot. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
But the silents were merely preludes to the explosion of cinematic Frankensteins. From Wordnik.com. [Movies] Reference
I now never watch the silents - I did one year and, terrible heathen that I am, fell asleep. From Wordnik.com. [More Parallel Universe] Reference
The print, loaned to the festival by Universal, was one of the clearest silents I'd ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
Bad taste was certainly a valuable commodity in Hollywood, from the silents through the early talkies. From Wordnik.com. [Exiles On Main St.] Reference
And his - all of his attributes were emphasized in silents and some of his faults were emphasized in sound. From Wordnik.com. [New Bio Gives Cecil B. DeMille His Own Close-Up] Reference
He kept his genius to himself and I can't see a single "influence" on other silents that derives from Chaplin. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Most Influential] Reference
From the silents to the seventies he never had a decade without at least one excellent film, usually many more. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock] Reference
At this year's festival, though, substantial audiences turned out to see such silents as "Chicago" and "Rotaie.". From Wordnik.com. [Thin Air, Rich Fare] Reference
His benchmark silents The Big Parade and The Crowd, among many others, put him in the forefront of top directors. From Wordnik.com. [The Movies That Changed Us] Reference
We recently discussed modern scoring of silents in the comments section of this post on “The Freshman” - see here. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
I would trust Senator McCain will employ the Right Wing hit groups to maintain their silents during this presidential race. From Wordnik.com. [McCain raises $21.5 million in May] Reference
Not as well, certainly, but the basic shape of them was used over and over in pulps and in films dating back to the silents. From Wordnik.com. [Cop movies] Reference
Filmmakers from the silents to the sci-fi directors of the 1950s got us to the moon frequently (and rarely with rocket ships.). From Wordnik.com. [40 Years after a truly huge achievement and we are ... where?] Reference
The first half of this one illustrates how sophisticated silents got by 1928, with fluid camerawork by director Lewis Milestone. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash: January 25-31 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
It was also decided that it was unfair for “talkies” to compete with “silents,” so The Jazz Singer was ruled ineligible. From Wordnik.com. [The Movies That Changed Us] Reference
This film was exceptional as silents go and I doubt many people have access to see something like this outside of a film festival. From Wordnik.com. [Telluride Film Festival: Part 2 - Where Have All the Good Films Gone? « FirstShowing.net] Reference
American movies have been telling tales of the immigrant experience since the days of the silents; "Sugar" makes it feel new again. From Wordnik.com. [Smiling in the Dark] Reference
The silents are always a great choice, this year there were three and The Last Command was just fantastic, one of the best I've seen. From Wordnik.com. [Telluride Film Festival: Part 2 - Where Have All the Good Films Gone? « FirstShowing.net] Reference
The Alloy Orchestra often plays with the silents in Telluride and they are just amazing, they always make the film just a bit better. From Wordnik.com. [Telluride Film Festival: Part 2 - Where Have All the Good Films Gone? « FirstShowing.net] Reference
Ozu made 54 films, starting with silents in 1927 and continuing until. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
The true revelation about silents is that they are so relevant, and often, so modern!. From Wordnik.com. [SF360] Reference
Latter is highlighted by a trio of rarely seen silents by Japanese master Shimazu Yasujiro. From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com]
Case in point, there's one collector who has several prints of rare Lon Chaney silents but no one seems interested. From Wordnik.com. [Home Theater Forum] Reference
Cinequest in San Jose shows silents film plays at Cinequest on Friday, February 26 at 7 pm private collection If you like this. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Pamela Anderson`s hot Dancing With The Stars performance] Reference
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