I'm a father of three and when I think of what those parents must be going through …" He shook his head mutely.
When METI briefed parliamentarians this week to reassure them the fuel shortage was being tackled, everyone nodded mutely, Mr Matsuda says.He argues that the "vertically structured" nature of governance in Japan makes strong leadership all the more important.
It all helped trigger schizophrenia, "the cancer of the mind".On New Year's Eve 1959 he was (by his standards; and it was a fancy dress party) normal enough, wearing a nappy and sash, mutely sitting on his wife Alicia's lap and alternately sucking a dummy and swigging a bottle of milk.
The German soldier he tripped over in the dark, already wounded and expecting to be killed, who mutely held up his fingers to show him that he had two children.
And they have to sit mutely by while their best ideas are either buried or stolen.
Back on the Pyramid Stage The Black Keys a made poor first impression, arriving mutely on stage as the crowd swelled prior to the main attraction.
But they are also deeply disturbing and psychologically complex, standing stiffly in their matching grey blazers, glaring mutely ahead, or fighting each other ferociously in a near-incestuous tangle of limbs.
When Lang Lang comes on stage it's with the gravity of an elder statesman: hand on heart, then extended in brief salute, before getting down to business - in this case Mozart's Piano Concerto No 42 in C minor K491, which he conducted mutely while waiting for Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra to finish their opening business.
But this prescient and melancholy music is in many ways underwhelming, neutrally delivered by a quartet standing mutely at keyboard lecterns, like austere judges, or Countdown contestants.
In individual sports, with no team-mates to share high fives, he typically engages with the challenge as mutely as a racehorse.
They have driven them around blindfolded in wheelchairs, forced them on a speed date with an actor or filmed them, while voicing their wicked 'inner thoughts', as they sit mutely in the stalls.
