Sentence examples for expressive silence from inspiring English sources

I don't mind, except when an expressive silence is broken too soon.

Shot in deep, glowing monochrome, with the camera completely still for all but two scenes, Ida is a study in expressive silence and composure.

In the expressive silence, Mr. Evans raised his straw-covered head once more, hawked and spit on the mahogany board table.

Taken alone, this was stark, dramatic music, boldly punctuated with long, expressive silences.

I can't recall a movie that makes such expressive use of silence and portraiture; from the beginning, I was thrown into a state of awe by the movie's fervent austerity.

It is a schematic but powerful symbol of a woman struggling to be heard in the male-dominated society of Ms Neshat's Iran, and the music is enthralling.No less expressive in its silence is an extraordinary collection of some 100 life-sized statues gathered by Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist.

Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964; The Gospel According to St. Matthew), by the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, reveals how expressive periods of silence can be and how great music can ennoble scenes like those of Christ's persecution and agony on the cross.

Despite Mr. Hutton's expressive way with silence — when Charlie sits wordlessly in a darkened room, the actor seems to gather the darkness up inside him — the character can't escape a fate (and gun) that seems to have been created for the sole purpose of bringing the story to a close.

During the recording, Sakurai had in mind that silence is more expressive than dialogue and that because of Cloud's burdens, he comes across as a weak person.

Clarity and transparency came belatedly, the silence at the end as expressive as the music that had gone before.

He tries not to let language restrictions get in the way of his message: When he is unfamiliar with a visitor's language, he resorts to expressive gestures, punctuated by pauses and heavy silences.