Sentence examples for prevailing silence from inspiring English sources

Above all, Atwood cleverly sets the passages of remembered dialogue against prevailing silence.

Whether pondering words like "lest" or remarking upon his home's prevailing silence, Mr. Sewell gives off the air of the host at a party from which Deeley risks being cut out; the performance, by turns ferocious and startlingly fragile, represents a smashing return for the actor to the London stage for the first time in nearly seven years.

Pedophiles count on prevailing silence to keep their compulsive behaviors hidden.

Some nonpoliticians are dismayed by this prevailing silence.

"We have to fight against this prevailing silence that exists in society," said Mr. González-Regueral.

However, the prevailing collective silence on this issue will only ensure that those in poverty are denied the space to speak.

Contrary to prevailing interpretations of this silence, this paper considers the social and spiritual obligations of the chief towards his subjects and argues that the impact of the siege was so profound that it rendered the chief of the besieged, Mugombane, socially and spiritually bankrupt.

While the dominant sound from Congress on gun control was silence, the prevailing sound on food stamps was a snap to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

And if I really wanted to justify being long-winded here, I could always just compromise what little integrity I have by citing the prevailing idea that "white silence is violence" and therefore I mustn't shut up, but rather spoonfeed my readers divine wokeness any time I feel any hint of unease regarding my place in a history I see repeating itself.

Commenting runs counter to the Knicks' prevailing, almost-pathological culture of silence.

And unlike in high-decibel Tokyo, the prevailing sound here is that of silence.