Sentence examples for dramatic silence from inspiring English sources

Followed by a dramatic silence.

There were curious pauses in the pacing, moments that seemed like dead space, not dramatic silence.

As the story unfolded, the noises seemed to become louder and more frequent, and at one point echoed around the auditorium, rather spoiling the effect of a particularly long dramatic silence.

And the last but not least, here's a tricky question that may not work each time, but is still worth asking: "Company X is offering to insure me for $XXX less" followed by dramatic silence.

Ollivier is given to dramatic silences.

And he is known for dramatic silences as he vaults from scales to chords, from traditional to bop.

The angular fragments of phrases that he thrusts out in the fast-paced "Street Runner with Child" seem framed by the quick, dramatic silences that separate them.

Pinter is no less famous for his dramatic silences and for the most astute use of the theatrical pause since the heyday of Jack Benny.

Discussing the book, Mr. Morris, who usually punctuates mellifluously composed paragraphs of speech with long, dramatic silences, evinced a Reaganesque, if not defensive, certitude about the unconventional technique he used.

The association's board was taken with technologies that can jam cellphone signals, eliminating the chance that dramatic silences will be interrupted by a "My Humps" ring tone.

Schubert biographer Brian Newbould describes that outburst: "torrential scales, pulse-threatening rhythms, trills, shock harmonies, writhing chromaticism, fragments of recitative, dramatic silences and stabbed chords".