They were the "silent generation," content to be guided by their elders: Eisenhower, the avuncular white-haired president who had been the hero of World War II, and the Wise Men who formulated the strategies of the cold war.
With his superstar peers either silent or content to collect the big bucks playing ingratiating stadium shows, this artist, iconoclastic and still vital, demands that we take the product of his muse on his own terms, and refuses to go so gently.
John Cage's 4'33" is frequently discussed, though there is broad agreement that this piece is not silent – its content is rather the ambient sounds that occur during its performance.
How about we not talk at all until I've drained the mason jar beside your bed of all its water and I can feel myself grow silent and content and laughing, I feel you rush out of me, but I like it and want to sleep in it once in a while, so I do.
Sometimes other young musicians, such as Richter and Rostropovich, would visit, and Prokofiev "sat silent and contented, enjoyment clearly showing on his face.
But Snapchat still has no sound board or soundtrack features, leaving some content silent or drowned in random noise.
A place "where you can find the most silent and sleepy content selection to relax your brain".
Saying a silent prayer (whose content she later divulged), she asked God to forgive her sins and let his will be done.
In fact, it was nothing like that simple.When visiting a mosque, the pope took a moment to offer his own silent supplications, whose content was strictly his own business; but the visit was carefully arranged to avoid coinciding with a Muslim prayer-time to which he would have had to react in some way.
In short, we have reduced ourselves to a largely silent, passive populace, content to watch and not do.
