“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

Both sides think “Silent Night” is the best Christmas song of all.

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

Fleming suggested Puts talk to Gelb, and the composer — a Pulitzer winner himself for his first opera, “Silent Night” — said he went to the meeting with low expectations.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2022

Especially compared to the insights provided by Don McKellar’s gold-standard we-all-die-tomorrow film “Last Night,” the thin stereotypes in “Silent Night” are weirdly uninteresting to observe in this ultimate pressure situation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2021

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