Clarisse, hardly disturbing the silence, entered the room bearing a tray.
It is a conspiracy of silence entered into willingly because lies are easier than the truth – black eyes, bruises and missing teeth can all be explained away.
But I will say this: words, especially when poorly applied or aggressively used, can and often do divide us, whereas silence, entered humbly and compassionately, may be the best hope for healing such divisions and fostering true unity.
These characters are wary of letting silence enter the room, lest sadness creep in too.
I close my eyes and see my father sulking like a pile of ashes, his hair jet black and kinky, his silence entering a thousand rooms.
There was a silence as Stulman entered the weight into a Web site called FitWatch.com, on his laptop.
The second-shift nurse's voice cut through the silence as she entered and exited rooms along the hallway, announcing pain-relieving meds in a voice as bright and cutting as a laser.
At the end of the 'free search' period, conducted in silence, the experimenter entered the room and asked the patient if he had noticed any systematic relation between his behavior and his visualized brain activity.
Under these conditions, lack of competition for space in peripheral niches allows environmental/self-reactive B cells, which would normally be silenced, to enter and survive.
(Mr. Fusco, consequently, seemed so nonchalant about the whole excursion that he spent much of it listening to the Yankees game on a pair of earphones. "Seven to nothing," he reported, before the train entered radio silence in Downtown Brooklyn).
Frustrating as his silence was, as he entered our country into a war whose scope few in his divided cabinet, much less in the public, even pretended to understand, it still appeared prudent for him to say as little as possible, and to understate the goals and ideals driving his actions.
