"Anyone?" she asked, receiving silence in reply.
The dialogue may not strengthen spiritual resources, but rather leave the person feeling fragmented, confused and abandoned, receiving silence when meaning or significance was needed, and sensing there is nowhere safe to turn except perhaps nothingness.
The news was received in silence, and members of the crowd, most of them men, maintained a two minutes' silence for the Rosenbergs.
His speech is received in silence, punctuated by coughs.
I resumed my one-sided conversation with her but received only silence in return.
The elder Yeats repeatedly sent his famous son short stories and other writing and received mostly silence in return.
Mr. Colbert's aim wasn't to please the attendees; there was no trace of anxiety when a "zinger" was received in silence.
Because of the simultaneous translation, the jokes are very often received in silence, but then got a laugh about five seconds later.
The home team won 8-2 in an eerie atmosphere where foul balls clanked around empty grandstands and mammoth home runs were received in silence.
