Sentence examples for mainly silent from inspiring English sources
(The blacks in this book are mainly silent; once or twice to clarion effect).
Onstage at Roseland, Mr. Williams and his mainly silent bandmate Shae Haley (Mr. Hugo was absent) were backed by the funk-rock band Spymob, and together they proved the value of simplicity.
He similarly concentrated on the theme of alienation in Last Days (2005), this time creating an impressionistic, mainly silent chronicle of the days before the suicide of a rock star resembling Kurt Cobain.
A couple of weeks ago, Sabine Durrant in the Telegraph kicked off a mini-debate about the boringness or otherwise of men with an anecdote about a dull dinner party and her husband (the motoring and sports journalist Giles Smith) - "a mainly silent presence" - who could not be drawn to comment upon it.
Many African-Americans understand the case not only as the civil-rights era redux but as a stark illustration of a here-and-now problem, one about which whites are mainly silent: the mass incarceration of black youths — America's "school-to-prison pipeline," as some scholars have christened it.
This is a totally different political game than in the previous world where consumers were mainly silent.
Politicians, who until a few years ago were happy to talk up multiculturalism, have mainly fallen silent.
"We can't get the money restored but people are feeling like it's a better atmosphere, because the new government mainly keeps silent on art and culture".
Famous mainly as silent victims, women like the "blue bra girl" risk becoming mascots of the male-dominated uprising, said Ms. Hassan, one of several Egyptian feminists who said they were thrilled by the size of the march — but winced at its dependence on men.
Importantly, the X-chromosome sequences lying within the newly formed Xist domain are believed to consist mainly of silent repeats (Chaumeil et al. 2006; Chow et al. 2010).
The included participants had a mean age of 64 years, were prevalently male (76%), and underwent repeated percutaneous coronary intervention mainly for silent ischaemia/stable angina or unstable angina.
