Sentence examples for silent hours from inspiring English sources

In those silent hours, he thought often of Ghosh.

Anthony Sparno's days are usually filled with silent hours tending his gateless 12-acre cemetery.

He speeded up the game, discarding the traditional format, in which players can spend agonizingly silent hours mulling over their next move, and replaced it with "rapid chess," in which a match lasts fifty minutes.

He speeded up the game, discarding the traditional format, in which players can spend agonizingly silent hours mulling over their next move, and replaced it with "rapid chess,'' in which a match lasts fifty minutes.

I have imagined my father composing this letter in his head, reciting it in a whisper as he paced the "concrete room" during those precious, silent hours between midnight and early morning when the loudspeaker in the centre of the ceiling stopped its relentless blaring out of revolutionary songs and speeches.

I wrote him letters when I could not sleep, asking if it was difficult for him to live inside himself, if he heard something else speaking to him in silent hours at night.

A silent hour of comedy is a tense hour.

Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write?

One Saturday afternoon last December, they were holding their first meeting, a silent hour of meditation, with the aperture of their new home open.

Blechman pooh-poohs the Rilkean test "Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: Must I write?" and counters it by reeling off a list of artists who didn't give up their day jobs: Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Anton Chekhov, Peter Paul Rubens.

I spent the 12-hour drive to Lake Powell waiting for her to call, but the phone just sat in the cupholder, silent for hours and hours.