"Please keep silent," the officer said sternly.
I am old, a bit slow, and have bad memories, so please keep silent even if I am wrong, and do not talk back.
If you can't say anything nice, please, keep silent.
There would be no rock concerts ("Stop munching crisps noisily at the back!"), comedy ("Please be completely silent, post-pub audience members, I'm trying to tell my very funny joke"), books or paintings ("Well, I was going to paint the Sistine Chapel but I was right put off by a bird tweeting outside the window").
Mr. Blackwell and other African Americans that believe a statement like this is not that important or remain conveniently silent, please allow me to tell you why the word "Negro" is harmful.
Could you please be very silent so I can concentrate?" They should get the message.
"I'm really pleased that the silent majority is silent no longer," he told Newsmax.
On the roof two hippies perch next to a giant peace symbol; below them a hand-painted slogan implores theatergoers, "Please don't remain silent".
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.
Sackville knows the flavor of a marriage politely going sour: Julia's silent agony — "Please not the pheasant fact, don't say it don't or I'll hate you," just before Simon repeats it for the millionth time; Simon's impulse to blame Julia for the morning traffic; Julia's ability to guess correctly which of two eggs on his plate Simon will eat first.
