Sentence examples for guilty silence from inspiring English sources

I sat on the couch in a stunned, guilty silence.

And the laughter among the audience, so hearty in the show's first half, fades into a guilty silence.

George Orwell once likened Britain to a wealthy family that maintains a guilty silence about the sources of its wealth.

This time, the price of mutual assistance must not be a blind eye or a guilty silence about unacceptable abuses.

But now, as I observed them from my corner, they continued to sit in guilty silence, staring at the last of their fire.

Notes To My Future Husband tends to provoke howls of recognition from women but – speaking from personal experience – can just as often induce in men a short and embarrassing guilty silence.

From the moment they first greet each other in the first act, with a guilty, wary silence before embracing, it is obvious that these men have never learned how to deal with each other.

Hearers' trust and positive bias toward speakers highlights by sharp contrast cases in which hearers are guilty of silencing speakers.

Was he a hero who deserves to be beatified, or was he, as some Jews say, guilty of neglectful silence?On October 19th Shimon Peres, Israel's 85-year-old president, tried to draw a line under the row.

We feel guilty about our silence and inaction yet our awkwardness keeps us muzzled.

At times, the dead themselves enter the curries of those who shield the guilty or suppress or silence a tragic history.