Sentence examples for ominous quiet from inspiring English sources
Attlee began to speak in his usually colorless tone and he was greeted with an ominous quiet".
AUTUMN has been a busy season for trade talks, a welcome change from the ominous quiet that has prevailed since 2008.
The volcano is currently well into another of these rather ominous quiet periods, following years of activity ended by an eruption that contributed in 1944 to the general mayhem of wartime Italy.
Soldiers in olive flak jackets stand at regular intervals, their attention shuttling from the busy growl of the traffic to the ominous quiet of surrounding fields of saffron and mustard seed.
You're left to soak in the scene, listening to the almost ominous quiet of the woods at night.
The room filled with an ominous quiet.
The most pointed song in the set was the quietest: the Brecht-Eisler "To a Little Radio," a surreal vision of life during wartime, ending, "Oh please do not fall silent suddenly," followed by an ominous silence.
The more bouyant "Tikkun (Rectification)," featuring violin and percussion (William Winant), gradually subsided to the quiet, ominous ticking of a woodblock.
There was a quiet, even ominous, intensity.
The transitions of mood between sections were seamless; there was ominous urgency even in quiet passages.
No summary of the quiet but ominous last years of Justinian's reign would be complete without some notice of the continuing attacks of bubonic plague and the impact that they were to continue to produce until the 8th century.
