Sentence examples for silent rebuke from inspiring English sources

His perfect abs are a silent rebuke to all those boomer men who have graduated beyond size 36 belts.

Even among such intimates, boundaries are observed, for fear of crossing an unseen line and triggering a stare of blank, silent rebuke.

These efforts by the living face up to the silent rebuke from the dead in potter's field, where for years a marker reminded the rare visitor, "No longer do we cast shadows on the ground as you do".

Her aesthetic is that of concrete art, isolated images placed in a grid; her intent is a silent rebuke, a solemn challenge to a world that, even now, is turning again to nuclear power to solve its problems.

Its strongest element is the austere majesty of the cinematography by John Toll ("Braveheart," "Legends of the Fall," "The Thin Red Line"), in which the severe beauty of the Western landscape looms over the characters as a silent rebuke.

Other possibilities are occasionally recalled here by objects from the museum's past, which almost seem to intrude with silent rebuke: Foucault's pendulum slowly swinging its way in a circle, demonstrating the Earth's rotation; a dinosaur skeleton looming over the walkway.

You could hear the sound of a horse's hooves clopping; of balloons being pricked, in the countdown to the start of the ceremony, a rebuke to the silent grandiosity of lights and lasers.

"You could hear the sound of a horse's hooves clopping; of balloons being pricked, in the countdown to the start of the ceremony, a rebuke to the silent grandiosity of lights and lasers," she wrote, clearly favouring Britain's efforts over those of 2008 in China.

My books are taking over, but at the same time they rebuke me with their silent presence.

The authors note that their findings rebuke Nixonian notions of a "silent majority," or more recently, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's contention that "real America" supported her and Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz) 2008 ticket.

And it is seen as a rebuke of the many players who made the silent protest of police brutality such a flash point of the league last season.