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The phrase "aching silence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a profound or intense feeling of emptiness or quietness, often evoking a sense of longing or sadness.
Example: "After the argument, there was an aching silence in the room that spoke louder than any words could."
Alternatives: "painful stillness" or "deep silence".
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It's an aching silence.
We have an outgoing US president sanctioning Israel's military response and an aching silence from the president-elect.
But deeper emotions reduced me (and, to some extent, reduce me still) to aching silence, especially when I feared that I would be exposed, misunderstood, or ridiculed.
Jon Lawrence Rivera, the founder of Playwrights Arenaa in Los Angeles, directs with a conductor's sense of timing; the suggestion of musical movements and of variations on themes that culminate in an aching silence is very powerful.
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There are none of the gaping, aching silences heard at NBA and MLB games.
The orchestral sound, with Mark Elder's intelligent pacing of Debussy's score, is vividly presented, but sometimes at the expense of the voices, and in a work that is riven with aching silences, a persistent background rumble is distracting.
In the meantime, Mr. Goodman's vigor under stress remains the commanding reason to catch Laurie Sansom's production, not least for those aching silences once his character's fevered garrulousness falls away.
I don't think I'd ever been in an auditorium where the laughter was so uproarious and the aching, painful silences were so intense.
Since AChE silencing was shown to prevent apoptosome formation [9], we tested if the N-AChE-S effect occurs upstream to the mitochondrial membrane permeablization, characteristic of apoptosis.
A diaphanous account of the "Träumerei" movement threatened to disappear altogether, and the bold silences and aching sustained notes of the concluding "Der Dichter Spricht" had an almost daredevil feel.
His self-titled debut album, out last month on Universal Republic, is a slow creeper, privileging silence and ache above all.
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