Inside the silent chambers, we glide past thickets of wet stalactites, and the strange, culinary morphings of calcite: sheets of what appear to be ancient lasagna, draining where it hangs, and a bear's skull so smothered by stony accretion that it looks less like "porcelain sculpture," as Herzog proposes, and more like a bad accident with a cheese fondue.
"Is the governor present?" Thomas R. Fitzgerald, the chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, asked the silent chamber.
Four lawmakers — Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York; Representative Candice Miller, Republican of Michigan; Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee; and Representative Robert Brady, Democrat of Pennsylvania — read each state's results aloud, punctuated a couple of times by mild applause from the otherwise silent chamber.
By recording crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, the team found that the noise was not continuous, but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.
When I arrived at the university, engineering assistant Jørgen Rasmussen guided me to his bright, silent chamber.
By exploring the finer regions of the impulse of love that murmurs in the silent chamber of our heart.
As our minds fathom quieter, more subtle levels of the thinking process through the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique (TM), we start to experience the impulses of love that murmur in the silent chamber of our hearts.
Lastly, he entered the Houses of Parliament, and stood in the silent debating chamber of the Commons, breathing the stale air.
All visual stimuli were presented on a 42-inch plasma screen situated 6 feet from the participant, in an otherwise dark and silent audiometric chamber.
Why was the [Congress] chamber silent?
The chambers became silent after twelve minutes and were closed for twenty minutes or less.
