Set the scene After weaving through downtown Nassau, passing the towering cruise ships in port, and waiting in traffic on the bridge to Paradise Island, arriving at the Ocean Club is a breath of fresh air (and a sigh of relief).
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 May 2026
But after initial examinations, the Jays may be able to breathe a sigh of relief.
My ambivalence comes from my own union experiences as a young, long-ago steelworker; as a middle-aged adjunct faculty member; and briefly, in my — gasp — old age, as a retail worker.
—
John Vukmirovich,
Chicago Tribune,
4 June 2026
Jackson made the screening audience gasp multiple times during the Q&A, with off-color remarks about some of Combs’ accusers.
There had been political whispers in South Windsor since the November election about whether the decision disqualifying Amadasun was part of a Republican ploy to keep Democrats from achieving a council supermajority.
—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
1 June 2026
This might be as simple as a public argument – hissing whispers in an elevator.
The film almost completely drops any and all scientific babble from the book in favor of character development, action sequences, and emotional gut punches.
—
Matthew Razak,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
Read a book and sip tea in front of the central fireplace, swim between the indoor and outdoor sections of the glimmering pool, and soak your aching quads in the hot tubs under the evergreens and aspens while listening to the peaceful babble of Gore Creek.
Minnesota has been heavily linked to the Greek forward dating back to the trade deadline, and those murmurs don’t figure to subside in the next month-plus.
—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
26 May 2026
As the 2022 trade deadline approached, murmurs reached Dallas that the Knicks were on the verge of hiring Brunson’s father, Rick, as an assistant for head coach Tom Thibodeau, the same role Rick had held in Thibodeau’s two previous stops with the Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves.
There are mud pools from Yellowstone National Park that have a squeamish gurgle, and hearing them amid a crackling bonfire feels unexpectedly harmonious, even plausible.
In a distant forest, the monument to his reckless
fretwork rustles in the treetops
and hums with beehives
like the watts in a worn, weary amp
burning, crackling for release.
—
Tyehimba Jess,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Everything is quiet apart from the rustle of leaves and the gentle murmur of voices from the bar.
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