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Silence in sentence

1929 examples of Silence in a sentence

When the film was over there was silence in the room... What can you say about a film that is so thoroughly sickening and disturbing?
This had none of those things, yet it held my attention by the actors' performances and the silence that was there, between the lines, so to speak.
The direction by Michael Mann is masterful, an object lesson in how to frame shots and let silence, as well as words - and music - work for the story.
The group’s success – measured, for example, by the flood of likes and comments on its Facebook page – has come in spite of government efforts to silence the writers, including the arrest of six members in 2014 on trumped-up terrorism charges.
Young victims and their families should not have to live in silence while predators roam fearless and free.
Worse, however, is the number of countries that find it convenient to avert their eyes and ears from the deathly silence with which this Asian country chooses to present itself to the outside world.
The relative silence about China in the US these days may be due merely to the news dominance of the Iraq War.
India’s Botched Tax ReformNEW DELHI – On July 1, an eerie silence descended over many of India’s teeming marketplaces.
A minute of silence for the victims of unarrested war criminals might be a more appropriate way to pay tribute to the Council’s core values of human rights and justice than attending the party now being planned in Belgrade.
James Murdoch, Rupert’s son and Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation’s European and Asian operations, authorized a secret payment of £1 million ($1.6 million) to buy the silence of hacking victims.
After several days of silence in the face of incontrovertible evidence of the launch, China’s leaders reluctantly admitted what China had done, but claimed that the “test was not directed at any country and does not constitute a threat to any country.”
The cynical way in which despots try to discredit all opposition as the work of foreign agents no doubt plays a part in this silence.
Since Abdullah became king in August 2005, high oil prices have sustained the old system of patronage, paying people for silence and stifling any initiative for change.
They then tried to force the Ukrainian people to swallow this sham – threatening to ban public gatherings, close our borders to new visa seekers, and silence any word of our protests on television.
But, at a time when China’s relationship with South Korea is deepening, the silence has been deafening.
Though we can now debate what the penalty for water-boarding should be, America as a nation, maintaining an odd silence, still cannot seem to discuss the sexual crimes involved.
Silence, and even collusion, is also typical of sex crimes within a family.
Americans are behaving like a dysfunctional family by shielding sex criminals in their midst through silence.
Throughout the region, government officials shut out those they regard as troublemakers and manipulate procedures for issuing broadcast licenses to benefit political allies or silence independent voices.
After several days of deafening silence, Trump was under growing pressure to speak out.
In contrast to this paranoid version of the past is a past that is buried under silence and propaganda; a past that is simply not dealt with and remains like a secret wound that can become reopened at any moment.
Such a choice can encourage the most dangerous nationalist tendencies within a society that does not know, especially young people, what hides behind the silence and official lies.
In 1989 the first manifestation of a nascent democracy was the gush of free speech triggered by decades of coerced silence.
Obama’s silence with regard to multilateral efforts to combat global warming is notable.
Will such silence and neglect prevail again if civil war is renewed in Sudan?
President Putin’s silence here is surprising.
Today, as France engages the progressive forces of the “Arab Spring” – politically, if not militarily, as in Libya – can it continue to maintain a hypocritical stance towards Algeria, paying a high price in credibility for continuing its silence about the past?
It is time to end the silence that makes all of us complicit in our generation’s greatest tragedy.
Cohen knows a great deal about Trump’s previous business practices and has revealed that he arranged to pay women with whom Trump had sex (though he hasn’t admitted it) for their silence before the presidential election.
But silence does not always mean consent.
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