Those short, declarative sentences, he wrote once, had a suicide's dread in their silences: dread that "at any instant, by any failure in magic, by a mean defeat, or by a moment of cowardice, Hemingway could be thrust back again into the agonising demands of his courage".
"In the end, there can only be a dread silence, a silence that itself is a heartfelt cry to God," Benedict said in 2006.
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Amid the hubbub Saturday, the whole show stopped for more than a minute and everyone united in silence after a dreaded but not unexpected announcement: Roger Neilson, a coach of many teams on many levels, had died of cancer at age 69.
The visual effects are solid, but the sound design is where tension builds – we become so accustomed to the constant creak and crack of tortured metal that a moment of silence fills us with dread.
We also dread the silence, the emptiness, yes, even the dirty washing and plates and cups left in their room!
Deathly silence followed by the dreaded phrase "your piece was [pause]... interesting".
Tightly written and spookily shot, each chapter has a distinct look and narrative arc; the three connect to one another with stretches of dread-filled silence.
Don't just sit there in the car with the dreaded, awkward silence.
The biggest fear is that the dreaded awkward silence will inevitably creep in.
