While the clavichord allowed expressive control of volume and sustain, it was too quiet for large performances.

While most men in rock and roll in the 1950s and 1960s portrayed a defiant masculinity, many of Orbison's songs instead conveyed a quiet, desperate vulnerability.

While all members of Led Zeppelin had a reputation for off-stage excess ( a label that has been claimed was exaggerated ), Jones was widely seen as the most quiet and reserved member of the group.

While his drinking became public knowledge during his lifetime, the press ( per established practice at the time ) kept quiet about his many marital infidelities.

While Dracula takes Joan for a dance, Sandra lures Wilbur to a quiet spot in the woods.

Time Out London noted, " While in no way as powerful as Barbara Loden's Wanda, Newman's film none the less captures the quiet desperation of enforced life in sleepytown America.

While its flow has not diminished, the stream has been engineered into a quiet controlled cascade feeding a duck pond with fountain, the centerpiece of the town park.

One of the Quakers later wrote, " While there was much noise and confusion without, all was quiet and peaceful within.

While in traditional variation sets a fugue was often used to conclude the work, Beethoven uses his fugue to reach a grand climax, then follows it with a final, quiet minuet.

While Frederick was described as " quiet and extremely well-behaved ", George was " lively and full of pranks ".

While Mascis's guitar, alternating between Black Sabbath-like riffs, squalling solos, dissonant noise-rock and occasional quiet passages, was the main attraction, Barlow's bass, melodic, highly distorted and often playing thick two-note chords, competed for attention.

While playing a guitar without humbuckers, a musician would hear a slight but significant hum through their pickups during quiet sections of music.

While it initially started to spread the word of anti-Bourbon liberalism, many people became interested in seeking power under a new form of government, which was something of little interest to the rich, quiet man.

While his wife settles down to a life of quiet despair and excruciating boredom, Edward Craddock, who has become a stranger to her, embarks on a career in politics.

He greatly impressed the Spanish Ambassador in Rome, the Duke of Sesa, who described him as a “ man of good judgement, experienced in his profession, hard working, quiet and disinterested .” While in Rome Queirós also first wrote his Treatise on Navigation as a letter to the king, further reinforcing his reputation as a navigator.

While it crosses various villages for provisions much of it is surprisingly isolated and quiet considering the density of the population in south-east England.

While Ten Mile Point is located within the urban part of Saanich, its setting has a quiet, rural feel.

While having a quiet career from his debut in 1964 until 1970, he then enjoyed five years of greater success, including scoring over 1, 000 runs in the 1975 season, before a rapid decline in 1976 which saw him dropped from the team.

While certainly appreciative of the enormous adulation and media coverage, this massive attention caused Jones to lose personal privacy in golf circles, and he wished to create a private golf club where he and his friends could play golf in peace and quiet.

While other parts of Meath were particularly quiet during the War Of Independence, the men from South Meath took the war to the British ; one ambush by one of the Lalor bros took place at the Wellington Monument, where he single-handedly took on a truckload of British with his rifle and grenade, the monument to the British PM still stands.

While preparations in the east were kept as quiet as possible, overt preparations were made in the west.

While on the campaign trail in 2011, Rajoy published an autobiography, En confianza ( In Confidence ), in which he recalled his studious and quiet youth, following a father who was climbing the ranks of Francisco Franco's judiciary.

While being arrested, he gives a satirical monologue about why he moved to the suburbs for " quiet ... the good life ", but says " if you do anything different, people say ' Oh look, there goes the weirdo.

While Coburg Shopping Centre is very busy during the day, its modest number of restaurants, cafes and bars means that it can be quiet in the evenings.

While Lübeck and the Hanseatic League prevailed in conflicts in 1435 and 1512, Lübeck lost when it became involved in the Count's Feud, a civil war that raged in Denmark from 1534 to 1536.

While she could not change her past, she and her teammates were able to change the directives of all the Sentinels of the era to preserve all life, thereby ending the genocide that had prevailed for years.

While congregants were reluctant at first to take on the task, ultimately he prevailed, and a religious school opened in Hanover on January 1, 1827.

While the French forces continued to fight and prevailed in several battles after Quebec was captured, the British did not relinquish their hold on the fortress.

While numerous Zulus of rival factions fled into Natal and some of the surrounding areas, Cetshwayo continued and maintained the peaceful relations with the Natal colonists that had prevailed for decades.

While in 1168 the Saxon clan of the Ascanians, allies of Frederick Barbarossa, had failed to install their family member Siegfried, Count of Anhalt, on the archepiscopal see of Bremen, the Ascanians prevailed twofoldly in 1180.

While the state religion of the Russian Empire was Orthodoxy, this religion historically prevailed in Tyumen.

While new President Calvin Coolidge initially resisted calls to sack Daugherty, Hoover and Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes prevailed upon him to eliminate a man whom they considered to be a corrupt official.

While on a visit to London in 1656 Oliver Cromwell prevailed upon him to preach at Whitehall, with the result that Howe, much against his preferences, became one of Cromwell's chaplains.

While Finney's influence in revivalism was important, it was Taylor and the New Haven theology that prevailed in New England churches.

While incubating a desire to move there the fifteen year-old Stewart was prevailed upon by Lamb to gain some business experience by earning money as a grocer in Belfast.

While a few of the short-term projects were implemented, none of the long-term projects prevailed in the political climate of the ensuring decade, which included the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

While Halakha ( Jewish law ) says that a Jew who converts is still a Jew, in the climate of persecution that prevailed in much of Europe in this period, conversion tended to be accompanied by a repudiation of Jewish identity, and converts to Christianity generally ceased to be considered part of the Jewish community.

While the yes votes prevailed, the overall voter turnout was less than 50 per cent and according to the provisions of the Municipal Act, the referendum results were not binding.

While peace prevailed with Persia, the situation inside Armenia began to crumble.

While in government work, he helped develop the metric system to secure uniformity of weights and measures throughout France.

While not without criticism ( e. g. by Neusner, 1998 ), the Steinsaltz edition is widely used throughout Israel, the United States and the world.

While this prohibition remained in force in general throughout the middle and early modern ages, this is no longer the case and Western women are often seen wearing trousers, ties, and men's hats.

While he continued to be prolific throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he is probably best known for his 1956 film The Ten Commandments ( which is very different from his 1923 film of the same title ).

While citizenship has varied considerably throughout history, and within societies over time, there are some common elements but they vary considerably as well.

While ratings for Coronation Street remained consistent throughout the decade, EastEnders regularly obtained higher viewing figures.

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

While marriage is honored among Christians and throughout the Bible, it is not seen as necessary for everyone.

While individual equations present a kind of puzzle and have been considered throughout history, the formulation of general theories of Diophantine equations ( beyond the theory of quadratic forms ) was an achievement of the twentieth century.

While motions of censure are periodically proposed by the opposition following government actions that it deems highly inappropriate, they are purely rhetorical ; party discipline ensures that, throughout a parliamentary term, the government is never overthrown by the assembly.

While the loss of traditional folk music in the face of the rise of popular music is a worldwide phenomenon, it is not one occurring at a uniform rate throughout the world.

While its morphological categories have been fairly stable over time, morphological changes are present throughout, particularly in the nominal and verbal systems.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

While the progressive elongation of the neck and limbs can be found throughout the giraffid lineage, it became more pronounced in genera such as Giraffokeryx, Palaeotragus ( possible ancestor of the okapi ), Samotherium and Bohlinia.

While the tactics of modern guerrilla warfare originate in the 20th century, irregular warfare, using elements later characteristic of modern guerrilla warfare, has existed throughout the battles of many ancient civilizations but in a smaller scale.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

While there was no separate Polish state at all, the idea of Polish independence was kept alive throughout the 19th century and led to more Polish uprisings and other warfare against the partitioning powers.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

While cardio-focused, rowing also stresses many muscle groups throughout the body anaerobically, thus rowing is often referred to as a strength-endurance sport.

While the children are not participants in the tutoring program, they do show marked improvement in their reading and writing skills throughout the semester, due in part to the admiration and respect they gain for their college reading buddy.

While Merlot is grown throughout the state, it is particularly prominent in Napa, Monterey and Sonoma County.

While the early French explorers that encountered the sites made no use of the metals due to the difficulties in transporting it, the copper was eventually traded throughout the continent along major river routes.

While stereotyped as rural music, the Country music format is common and popular throughout the United States and in some other countries ( particularly Canada and Australia, both of which share much of the same Anglo-Saxon and Celtic roots as the United States ).

While often buying her clothes, she continued to borrow and sometimes keep designer clothes throughout her time as first lady, which came to light in 1988.

While the names of saloon and public bar may still be seen on the doors of pubs, the prices ( and often the standard of furnishings and decoration ) are the same throughout the premises, and many pubs now comprise one large room.