Sentence examples for Overwhelming silence from inspiring English sources

Overwhelming silence.

By day there is the overwhelming silence of the bush.

An example is provided by the almost overwhelming silence one experiences when the sound of an air conditioner (to which he has adapted) suddenly ceases.

Danish artist Jacob Kirkegaard (b. 1975) finds that the Arctic is a landscape full of sound - deep and high - with only overwhelming silence in between.

While having electricity in Guinea was rare, the stillness hit me first -- no honking sounds from passing cars, no street vendors offering their wares, just overwhelming silence.

It has become part of a habit of noise, a part of a whole dominated by an overwhelming silence that reduces sound to a whisper swallowing even gunfire into a depthless void.

It's hard not to wonder at its perfect stillness, but just as the silence becomes overwhelming a violent outburst occurs, like calving glaciers, the very occasional exploding iceberg, or a pod of orcas surfacing.

People talk about the sound of silence, but the silence of absence is overwhelming.

I'm overwhelmed by the silence and space.

That's when I almost knocked over my coffee, pulling back my elbows before my lone pair of hands could break the silence, overwhelmed by an ovation that never came.

In the distance cocks crow and dogs howl, but otherwise the silence in the Great Rift Valley is overwhelming.