It eventually turned anxious and, finally, ended in shocked silence.
"But you've missed out King Lear," he said in shocked amazement.
It was all about that question mark, Terry argued – "sarcastic exclamation", in shocked response to being accused of racism.
He refused to tell his mother, out of shame, but did tell a cousin of hers, and the news spread to the household, which responded in shocked silence.
Pictures of her smiling face dominated coverage alongside the gory details, though these varied even from site to site; surely a traumatised child cannot be discovered both screaming and standing in shocked silence beside her mother's body?
SITTING in his office late one evening in April last year, Keith Roberts, the director of finance for the Archway & Mother's Cookie Company, stared in shocked silence at the numbers on his desk.
Legend has it that on the opening night of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," the audience was so moved by what it had witnessed that it sat in shocked silence, collecting itself and drying its tears, before the applause broke out.
Best scene: A whole host of Birgitte/Bent moments to choose from, but the point at which the prime minister is rehearsing hollow rhetoric about their close friendship while he watches in shocked silence managed to be both poignant and bleakly comic.
Legend has it that on the opening night of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," the audience was so moved by what it had witnessed that it sat in in shocked silence, collecting itself and drying its tears, before the applause broke out.
"A few of the ones I'm in shocked me – me and my brother Christophe, for example, we totally look the same!" (HT @GreatDismal).
