Sentence examples for layer of silence from inspiring English sources

"Maybe someday," the author writes in "After­image," "I'll manage to break through that layer of silence and amnesia". He seems certain to keep trying.

Weller writes about "a layer of silence".

We propose that unpaired chromatin that has been subjected to silencing by a piRNA trigger can be subjected to an additional layer of silencing during meiosis that then makes the original piRNA trigger dispensable.

Most had their own tales of deceit and discovery, life histories that proved to be homespun fairy tales, the dark truth buried under layers of silence.

The lives of psychoanalysts have become a source of fascination in a culture where therapists have replaced priests, and stripping away the layers of silence in which they have shrouded themselves seems tantalizing.

Our study of transgenes targeted by an endogenous piRNA may recapitulate the fate of transposons that are transmitted in rare horizontal transfer events, in which a single transposon insertion could be subjected to dual layers of silencing, as the locus would likely remain heterozygous for a number of generations before potentially becoming fixed.

In addition to these rather direct actions of the Polycomb complexes, another layer of epigenetic silencing is brought about by their interaction with the DNA methylation system.

Beaten and left in a cell, too ashamed to admit his identity or even where he lives, he is transformed when he is mistaken for a resistance fighter: "A fierce desire gripped me to clap my hands, to sing, to ululate and scream until the layers of necessity, silence, humiliation, and submission were all gone.

But, as interpreted by director Sam Gold (who helmed the original Obie Award-winning New York production), it comes sandwiched between layers of awkward improv and uncomfortable periods of silence.

Over many years and visits, he peels away the layers of terror-induced silence and forgetting, and lets people tell their stories – heartbreaking accounts of brutalisation, betrayals and massacres.

But if libraries are meant to be slow-moving places under layers of dust and silence, then it's nothing like that here.