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Just the unbroken line of people, holding hands and passing silently in the white darkness, the line looping back and forth outside the forbidding gates.
Standard treatments are failing as we speak, and millions of people are silently being infected and falling ill.
And now that France, reeling from the Paris attacks, has declared war on the Islamic State, other European countries are shrugging their shoulders, mumbling condolences, and silently hoping that the conflict will spare them.
So were many of the NGO leaders, who railed abstractly against the old Soviet state, while their young assistants sat silently in the background.
Care-giving, as illustrated by our case, includes what happens when hope and consolation are abandoned, when theodicy ends, and when all there is to do is to be present with the sufferer, sharing his or her suffering by simply – and usually silently – being there.
The death sentences and torturing that were then imposed on almost entire nations and millions of people are, it now appears, to be silently accepted and noisily celebrated on May 9 in Moscow.
Kremlin Murder IncorporatedNEW YORK – In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, as a silently ordered hit.
The epidemic happens silently over years or decades; the danger is either not recognized or not considered avoidable; and action is often seen as the responsibility of the individual (lifestyle modification) or health-care system (pharmaceutical prescription), rather than the state.
Scientists are now working to pinpoint the neuro-chemistry of thought and emotions so accurately that new technologies could be developed to allow humans to communicate them silently.
With the COVID-19 death toll rising, we should question the wisdom and morality of a system that silently condemns millions of human beings to suffering and death every year.
“Those who murdered,” noted German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, “those who planned and helped in the murdering, the many who silently toed the line: They were Germans.”
Much better, then, to pursue this goal silently, under a cloud of obfuscation, and hope that a vaccine arrives before most of the population is infected.
We took the elevator to the ground floor and parted silently.
It was the same with his stance a few months later, when he sat silently in the Eurogroup meeting, listening to the German finance minister dictate to the rest that expulsion from the euro was the price of refusing levels of austerity that, ultimately, would put the ECB’s inflation target out of reach.
On the day when, in the ballroom of the house in Arbat Street, she in her brown dress had gone up to him and silently plighted herself to him, on that day and in that hour a complete rupture seemed to have taken place within her soul between her former life and this other new and entirely unknown life – although in fact the old life still went on.
During the few moments that they were silently gazing at it, Mikhaylov also regarded it with the indifferent eye of a stranger.
He went out silently, and at the very door came upon Mary Nikolavna, who had heard of his arrival but had not dared to enter.
Will you entrust it to me?'Karenin silently and gratefully pressed her hand.
He had formerly regarded the new teaching with coldness and even hostility, and had never discussed it with the Countess Lydia Ivanovna (who was carried away by it), but had carefully and silently evaded her challenges.
He chose a moment when the teacher was looking silently into the book:'Michael Ivanovich, when is your birthday?' he suddenly asked.
Having done so he glanced again at her face and, recognizing her, silently bowed low.
Silently and questioningly he gazed for a few moments at his mother, who stood motionless before him, then suddenly smiling blissfully, he closed his heavy eyelids and fell once more, not backward, but forwards into her arms.
And the three women meditated silently on the same subject.
Without a word of reply to Vasenka, who was assuring him that it was quite dry there, Levin worked silently with the coachman to disengage the horses.
She silently pressed Anna's hand.
With her arms helplessly outstretched upon the quilt, unusually beautiful and calm she lay, gazing silently at him, trying unsuccessfully to smile.
'He hates me, that is clear,' thought she, and silently, without looking round and with faltering steps, she left the room.
Anna read and silently returned it.
Vronsky was frowning and looking straight before him, as if not hearing what Oblonsky was sayingProbably at Oblonsky's indication, he looked round to where Koznyshev and the Princess were standing and silently raised his hat.
Coming up to the train, Vronsky, letting his mother pass before him, silently disappeared into one of the compartments.
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