I usually keep it in my left trouser pocket and, even when it isn't there, I sometimes feel a silent-message-style buzzing in my thigh muscles, as if a message has been sent directly into my skin.
He felt "a silent scream," he said.
Lest anyone think that the Swedes didn't show up, rather than show up bravely and then get beaten, one should also reference the wise point, often made by the announcers, that such normally cautious players as Daniel Sedin and Daniel Alfredsson were cheerfully throwing their bodies in front of pucks — offering, one felt, a silent editorial on the significance of the normal N.H.L. schedule.
And I'd come to feel a strange closeness with my silent companions.
"STREET" feels like a silent movie, except it is accompanied by a jangling, sometimes droning acoustic guitar soundtrack composed and performed by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
He felt life, a silent vegetable life, enclosing them, on this her father's land, this man present in every leaf and reaching branch.
"I just worked harder than anyone else, never asking for sympathy or for understanding, never giving myself the relief of expressing how I felt, just a silent human motor pushing its load," he wrote.
On a rest stop at the Lynchburg, Virginia, Greyhound station, I was shocked, ashamed, and a little frightened to find, off to the side of the main waiting room, a smaller, windowless waiting room labeled "Colored" — ashamed because of my complicity in using the (unlabeled) white waiting room, frightened because I suddenly felt myself a silent stranger in my own country.
Five minutes of what felt like a silent eternity followed.
