Sentence examples for enveloping silence from inspiring English sources

Every summer, the camp is his refuge, where he lives and works, the enveloping silence of the place one of its draws.

We strained our ears, and there it was: muffled, cushioned by the lightest powdery snow, the purest, most complete and enveloping silence.

The raucous pub downstairs is soon forgotten as the doors quietly close and the enveloping silence creates nervous expectation.

There was much merriment in Harrison's work, much hummable song and rollicking dance; but there were also dark, questing rivers of chant, machinelike ostinatos, erupting dissonances, enveloping silences.

The audio spotlight -- as Mr. Pompei has dubbed it -- emits a column of sound enveloped by silence, the way the glow of a spotlight is enveloped by darkness.

For the first time since our arrival in Canada I feel enveloped in silence, and just the slightest worry that we may have arrived on the wrong day.

Activists at the One Earth, One Family event broke through the silence enveloping early-morning Rome with singing and chanting, waving paper birds high over the central Piazza Farnese before marching to the Vatican.

Experts in Russia and the United States said that its use -- and the official silence enveloping it -- were raising troubling questions about Russia's compliance with the international treaty banning chemical weapons.

I find it truly odd -- maybe it's just me -- sitting next to someone for four, five, six, or 12 hours with a total cone of silence enveloping you.

The silence is enveloping, it's debilitating.

But the silence now enveloping the political non-response to plans for the Afghanistan war is a message of acquiescence that echoes what happened when the escalation of the Vietnam War gathered momentum.