Three months after Svetlana's arrival, she wrote to Kennan, "I feel sad, that again — as long ago in my native cruel Russia, I have to force myself to silence, force myself to false behavior, to hide my true thoughts, and to bend my head down before the fist of false authority.
Her periods of voiceover silence force the audience to focus intently on the action taking place onscreen at the same time.
Some of his most memorable interviews (Carlos Mencia, Matt Graham) occur when his silence forces the guest to fill the space.
And it pushed Ms. Geimer into a cone of silence, forced to witness the most humiliating courtroom revelations with nobody in whom she could confide.
After "Today I Am a Boy", he inserted an agonisingly long interval of silence, forcing the audience, as he said to me, "to fill it up with their imaginations - to create their own music.
Don't like listening to music or podcasts but can't walk alone in silence, forced to face thoughts of the unknown future, or your own insignificance in the ever expanding universe?" For many, the answer to one or all of the above seems to be "yes".
In Wolfsohn's unpublished manuscript from 1946, "The Bridge," he wrote that Salomon's unremitting silence "forced me to play the clown," and that their endless, one-sided conversations became a kind of seduction: "She was extraordinarily taciturn, and unable to break through and emerge from the barrier that she had built round herself".
As uncomfortable as it may be, silence forces our thoughts inward, and I wanted the challenge of being alone and at peace with my thoughts.
The aircraft maintained strict radio silence, forcing the pilots to rely on a chain of signal fires that pointed towards Belgium; the radio silence also ensured that senior commanders of the assault force could not be informed that the tow-ropes on one of the gliders had snapped, forcing the glider to land inside Germany.
Louis Theroux's excruciating silences force people to talk.
The silence — the force that compels all of Pinter's manic motormouths — is huge, terrifying, and, in Pinter's masterly hands, visionary.
