Sentence examples for reserved silence from inspiring English sources

While playing a waiting game, Collins studied the opposition warming up, taking note of it all in reserved silence.

The belittling of one issue by randomly mentioning another of greater severity is a technique specially reserved for silencing women's voices.

Throughout, the audience listened in that rapt silence reserved for the best music-making.

The chandeliered, velvet-wallpapered room is holding its breath, suspended in the rare silence usually reserved for classical concerts.

Cal Petersen's NHL career was born here, while a moment of silence was reserved for what was the Kings-Chicago Blackhawks' dominance from earlier this decade.

Both the critics who never were, who kept their silence (reserving their fame for their own productions solely and withholding it from literature in general), and the critics who decided to speak up but who -- in the face of Oswald's Law and other discouragements -- chose to lower the volume and blunt the tone so as to blend with the general muted hum.

In contrast to the poetic congress babbling behind his spectacles and buck-toothed grin, Morgan in company could be reserved to the point of silence, especially among strangers.

The refusal to confront the issue of alcoholism seems to be intertwined, to some extent, with Irish American's emotional reserve and silence.

Reserved, with something of that mysterious silence of those who come from the mountains.

Keller was reserved, and in meetings people mistook his silence for passivity; Abramson didn't hesitate to announce her opinions.

Overall his speech was received in polite silence with jeering and clapping reserved for the question and answer session that followed.