We should be starting shortly — we've been asked to silence our phones.
In other words, it's a way to not annoy others when watching a movie, play or other performance in a darkened room when you're asked to silence your devices.
Some locals who had come to sell sugarcane and watch the shoot under a nearby tree were asked to silence their children.
This discourse of gratefulness is part of white supremacist thinking, it is a kind of linguistic violence that asks us to silence our own experiences, to erase ourselves.
I'm going to ask you to silence your cellphones, but I'm not going to ask you to turn them off.
The nun, Sister Jeannine Gramick, said in a prepared statement that the Vatican and the leaders of her order had asked her "to silence myself".
When Kluwe learned that a Maryland state delegate, Emmett C. Burns Jr., wrote the Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti asking him to silence Ayanbadejo, Kluwe criticized Burns in a letter sprinkled with profanity that was published on the Web site Deadspin.
But when she continues on long beyond the time it takes to ask us to silence our cell phones and unwrap our candy now, all the while smiling "pleasantly," it becomes clear that she, like the Messenger in "Everyman," will be our stern but civil guide into this strange, earthbound terrain.
Seats are filled, the Black Eyed Peas soundtrack is blaring (I've heard "I've Got A Feelin' (Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night)" somewhere around 87,000 times in the past year), and they're asking everyone to silence their phones.
I had someone tweeting me, and saying a couple of negative stuff to me and asking me to silence myself on twitter.
