“Silent Night”

Cultural  

1. A song of Christmas, originally composed in Austria in the nineteenth century. It begins, “Silent night, holy night, / All is calm, all is bright….”

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Example Sentences

Robert Archer Lynn’s script for “Silent Night” captured his attention with its intimate character drama and emotional undercurrent, the kind of “good human story” Woo thought audiences missed in an age of comic-book-movie fatigue.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

The secret, of course, was to lean into the incredible eclecticism of her career, all while avoiding the sleepy, saccharine pitfalls of a “Silent Night” -heavy holiday release.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

“Silent Night” emerged as the winner in the religious category, cited by 15% of the total respondents, according to a Monmouth University poll released Thursday.

From Washington Times • Dec. 15, 2022

A composer was already in hand — Kevin Puts, who won the Pulitzer Prize for “Silent Night” in 2012, working here with the librettist Greg Pierce — but the company needed two more stars.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022

Then the lilting strains of “Silent Night” brought Shirley back to Brooklyn, and she searched the audience for her parents.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord