Sentence examples for off the silence from inspiring English sources

Words not met by a listener seem to bounce off the silence and come back to the speaker to be reabsorbed and retold.

People are ready to speak, to throw off the silence that we've all been taught to maintain".

Try to understand what could set off the silence.

Spaces that had been filled not only with my words, but with my visceral need to provide words; as if the silences were in themselves wrong, and somehow needed the corrective measure of even more things to say to stave off the silences.

Once we'd both shaken off the awkwardness of the silence that followed that question, Vanselow and I made our way to the matted floor in the center of the building to begin my training in earnest.

And, as I'm wondering whether "blows" means the same as "sucks", the rock star is off, filling the silence with pre-cooked statements on the state of the Democratic Party; how downloads are killing the music industry; the melting of the icecaps; the need to eradicate homelessness; and the bonuses of record-label bosses.

Now more than a day-tripper, I set off in the silence of early morning to peer at the stone portraits that line the balustrades of the Basilica of St.-Nazaire, which dominates the southern edge of the fortress — each 13th-century face extraordinarily alive.

If you tried tuning into Pandora, Yahoo! or even MTV today to listen to some web radio and were confused and possibly ticked off by the silence then you've obviously been living under a rock.

Lock or barricade the doors, turn off the lights, silence all electronic devices and stay quiet.

He had sectioned off the women, silencing any protest with the back of his hand, swift to the jaw.

The television was off, the stereo silenced.