The premieres they presented on Tuesday in the opening performance of a weeklong season at the Joyce Theater allowed the audience simply to enjoy invention and quiet eloquence.

Meanwhile Sam's quiet eloquence held everything together.

But what stood out most was the elegance and simplicity of the company's style, as well as its quiet eloquence.

The Prime Minister was a man of personal dignity, quiet eloquence and affecting personal reserve, while this lament is highly emotive and extravagant.

Mr. Ruiz's own quiet eloquence and elegance as a performer also inform "Club Havana," a dance party with lively dignity.

Mr. Brown's quiet eloquence can be as silky as the Hermes ties he favors.

Like "City of Bones," it's a title with more quiet eloquence than may first be apparent.

(One sales brochure says its most costly hearse "speaks with quiet eloquence of your standing in the community.")

The mood is staid, and yet these couples' very devotion to the dance, and presumably to one another, has a quiet eloquence.

Mr. Versweyveld spoke with quiet eloquence of how everything "seemed larger than life" in performances right after the Sept. 11 attacks.