Sentence examples for curious silence from inspiring English sources

In middle age Vigny gradually withdrew into a curious silence and retired, according to the famous expression of Sainte-Beuve, to an "ivory tower".

A funny thing happened after Adm. Mike Mullen called for gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military: A curious silence befell much of the right.

Though the building, along with its stores and restaurants, incorporates a church, a casino, a beach, a zoo and a racetrack, these all preserve a curious silence.

But the curious silence surrounding the transplanted Bouley doesn't indicate a slipshod redo or botched job like Secession, which debuted with a nonsensical menu and clownish service.

The truth was that Piotr was afraid of her anger at his timidity, at the way he had stood to one side — silent in the curious silence after the blow.

So if satisfaction with the party's current prospects can't be the reason for the curious silence of Labour MPs, can it be explained by a belief among them that things are going to get better?

The crazy growth spurts are accompanied by appropriately sci-fi music; during the intervals, a checklist informs the curious, the silence is actually a performance of John Cage's silent score "4 Minutes 33 seconds," from 1962.

Inexplicable dislocations abound: dissonances of sound and image, random eruptions of spoken poetry and the curious interjection of silence, blank screen or archival video images.

(Curious? Look up Silence of the Hams. It's in the "Seriously?!" section on Amazon).

Whatever their motive he was never bitter towards them, and those who were in close personal touch with him since the treaty tell of curious expedients and silences he had at many junctures not to increase the rancour of those with whom he had formerly been comrade.

It's from a yearning to express herself, to say something about her experience, about being a movie star, about marriage, about women, about the oddity that is she (or, us, by extension), and she does so by curious means: long silences, monosyllabic responses, beautifully held frames of a life so glamorous it hurts.