And we give them lots of material to discuss -- we create problems for them to argue about". The evening was full of conflict and manipulation and power plays, of guarded silences and stormings offstage.
But now Iraqis came to view him in very different circumstances, in American captivity, with a soldier swabbing his mouth for DNA, then in court being manhandled by guards, silenced by the judge and ultimately condemned to death.
It was as if this silence guarded his luminous talent which, like a genie in a bottle, could be let out only when a magic code released it, to play what awful games it might - as it had in his masterpiece.
In his tightly guarded world, his motto was "Silence, silence, and more silence".
In his tightly guarded world, his motto was "Silence, silence, and more silence". For days on end, he sequestered himself in his Stockholm headquarters and warded off unwanted visitors.
We followed a code of silence guarding an unhealthy culture.
The international community must guard against the silence induced by attention fatigue.
Scientists everywhere tend to regard science journalism as a species of grotesquery akin to a two-headed calf--a Siamese confabulation to which the only humane response is, "How do we separate one from the other without killing both?" The aversion to popularization is sometimes attributed to a prideful sort of academic omerta, an ivy wall of silence guarding the ceremonies of an insular elect.
Once her betrayal is revealed, Martia transforms into Kirk's double and fights him, but she is killed by the prison guards to silence any witnesses.
Faye is fairly guarded, too; she often receives their stories in silence, or her questioning only elicits more narration.
