Sentence examples for depressing silence from inspiring English sources
When it is taken away, there is nothing left but abject, depressing silence.
"What can we have been thinking of, we dead", asks the speaker, "with our fussed-over folders / And mild, unprofitable passions?" The answer is a depressing silence.
So when we left the little station we avoided the village and in a depressing silence traversed the half mile to Dr. Harden's house.
Endo, who was Catholic, is menaced by God's silence in the face of the suffering of the early Japanese Christian martyrs, and the silent indifference of God's world: "Behind the depressing silence of this sea, the silence of God . . . the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent".
They hoped the $765 million deal between the league and the former players who claimed the NFL withheld information about the long-term effects of concussions would buy silence from the daily drumbeat of depressing stories of damage suffered by players.
The deafening silence somehow makes what is already a fairly depressing atmosphere considerably worse.
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Fast forward five centuries to Mark Rothko, one of America's most famous artists, whose depressing dark-panelled chapel near downtown Houston emits a message of the unbearable silence of God.
In the final chorus he let the melody recede, like disappearing ink, until there was just silence and the sound of his fingertips hitting the keys but not depressing them; then the tune faded back in again.
