Sentence examples for abrupt silence from inspiring English sources

Most dramatic are the sudden pauses, like the abrupt silence that follows the Officer's grotesque death.

There was that strange sequence of dial-up chirps, that clotted whoosh of white noise, and finally an abrupt silence.

Speakers of British English always seem to be on the lookout for the glottal stop: that abrupt silence that can replace the "t" in words like "right" or "taught" or between the syllables in an exclamation like "uh-oh!".

Did I mention his screams, that haunting and ragged sound followed by abrupt silence, because the screamer has been knocked unconscious?

At the end of the final chorus the track crescendos, with Rhys singing "yeah, yeah, yeah" and all instruments with the exception of the keyboard coming to an abrupt silence after 1 minute and 43 seconds.

There is a world-weary heaviness to the work, with lumbering chords in the strings, monumental outbursts and abrupt silences.

The eerie mood is conveyed with slow crescendos and diminuendos, abrupt silences and, in particular, the impressionistic use of tremolando to evoke a sinister effect.

He brought narrative flair to the slow movement and more comic effects to the third movement, with its truncated phrases and abrupt silences that make it seem as if the pianist were suffering a memory lapse.

Given to verbose bursts and abrupt silences, he doesn't so much talk to Lopez (he doesn't always make eye contact either) as just talk and talk, the words pouring out like water until something (rage? fear? chemistry?) stops the flow.

The band's presence created an exaggerated sense of light and shade, too: from the abrupt, empty silence after the opposition's first goal to the howling, screaming crescendo of "It Would Have Happened Anyway", delivering intensity to the night's shocking conclusion.

The crowd noise before Marichal turned his bat on Dodger number 8 and then the abrupt, eerie silence of horror - and sound of a wooden Louisville Slugger connecting with Roseboro's plastic helmet.