None of them had faces, and when I asked him about that, Bustos fell mute.
Reading a letter like Ahmadinejad's, we fall mute, like explorers coming upon an ancient inscription written in hieroglyphics.
Gandhi was terrified of having to speak to a group: his vision would fog over; he would fall mute.
He praises the eloquent silence of the war hounds who fell mute after the invasion (though perhaps insufficient homage is paid to the eloquent silence of a hundred thousand dead Iraqis), but, though chastened, he's still talking.
In the large and varied scheme of things, in the face of experiences before which even the most poetic words fail and fall mute, writing even an inferior book might well be a superior way of living.
But while science achieved amazing things in the years after Descartes — this was the age of Newton's discovery of gravity and Boyle's invention of modern chemistry — philosophy did not fall mute.
Bergman's own passionate attachment to the character of Vogler would become all the more apparent when, in 1965, he made what is perhaps his most radically intimate film, "Persona"; its protagonist, an actress who falls mute — played by Liv Ullmann — is named Elisabet Vogler.
By The New Yorker September 27, 2013 "In the large and varied scheme of things, in the face of experiences before which even the most poetic words fail and fall mute, writing even an inferior book might well be a superior way of living".
In the distance, a golden clearing between lush, vivid cliffs was filling with the surging storm; the angels were receding; the birds ceased their high-pitched agitated laughter; the flowers no longer flew from the trees; I grew feeble, I fell mute.... Then a miracle occurred.
In the face of experiences before which even the most poetic words fail and fall mute, writing even an inferior book might well be a superior way of living".
