Chelsea's defending had been woeful in the defeat to New York Red Bulls last Wednesday and despite Mourinho's silent treatment in the aftermath, it was no better here.
It is the partners who have to deal with the aftermath, with silent men who prefer to hide pain and fear away than admit any weakness, with the private side of someone who in public must by tradition be steadfast in the face of immense danger and illogically sanguine about unavoidable injury.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry in Brasília also remained resolutely silent in the immediate aftermath of the most recent remarks from Jerusalem.
Watson was also silent in the immediate aftermath of the controversial death of Abdirahman Abdi at the hands of Ottawa police.
But they will never know the silent howls that butcher dignity in the aftermath of horror.
But advocates and victims contend that forcing women to confront the prospect of an investigation in the immediate aftermath of a rape or remain silent in the closed environment of the academy would deepen the pain for victims.
In death, the two were only distinguished by the silent cremation of one body and the explosive aftermath that would follow the cremation of the other.
Still, the fact was that in the aftermath of the funeral, when it had seemed as if the whole world had fallen silent, what had troubled Eva most was her marriage, not her father's absence.
In the aftermath, the squawky room feels intensely quiet, the way even Manhattan seems silent when the car alarm across the street finally stops.
"The fear caused by these silent and unpredictable weapons causes civilians to flee in larger numbers than in the aftermath of conventional attacks".
