Sentence examples for intense silence from inspiring English sources

I still remember the intense silence in the cinema when I saw it.

There were no signs in the temple saying what you could or could not do, but inside there was an atmosphere of intense silence and contemplation.

And once performances began, an American could only be stunned by the intense silence among so many listeners, with scarcely a cough heard through at least two entire evenings.

At a time when we're inundated with a steady clatter of information, Vermeer offers refuge, rooms filled with the kind of intense silence that exists only in museums -- oops, make that monasteries.

For much of the movie, an intense silence reigns, interrupted by outbursts of furious brutality against the naked prisoners, who are smashed against walls or flogged with truncheons as they're dragged between rows of uniformed thugs.

They lapse into an intense silence, which is finally broken by another question from one po-faced 14-year-old: "Sir, do they have a stable relationship?" I go into Windsor for teabags and the nicotine chews to which I am rapidly becoming addicted.

Structure is modular, with clangorous episodes separated by long moments of intense quiet or actual silence.

After a ton of super intense music, silence, fiddling with roses and platitudes about how all three of them are just so great, Em makes her decisions: SAFE: One-F Jef gets called first, then after a.... very.... long... pause.......... Arie.

As the musicians progress through intricately scripted passages and wide-ranging improvisations, the audience generally maintains an intense, attentive, swaying silence.

It's where people here chose to place their memorial to the victims of the attacks two weeks ago, and there is still a huge crowd, gathered round the central monument in intense, almost ritual silence, taking in the thousands of pictures, candles, flowers and messages left by wellwishers.

After four and a half hours of intense fighting Isis silenced her opponents, at the heavy cost of nine officers and 103 men killed or wounded.