Widespread appreciation of it goes back no further than Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published fifty years ago, which detailed the silent, terrible, invisible journey of pesticides through the capillaries of a poisoned world.
Two days after his death, hundreds of people gathered in heavy snow in front of the Pittsburgh City Hall to honor Cope; included in the ceremony was one minute of silent Terrible Towel waving.
But if we don't confront loss in the first place, we can't help others confront it, so we all stay silent, feeling terrible.
Grief, too, the other end of love, breaks through the lovely silvered surface of one story after another, a terrible silent bomb going off in the quiet lives of the widowed and childless.
Bose stated that his character goes to see him off and there is a "terrible silent moment" between the two.
We can be silent witnesses to terrible injustices if we think that we can obtain significant benefits by making the rest of humanity, present and future, pay the extremely high costs of environmental deterioration".
Hall invokes the image of the shell-shocked soldier to depict inverts as psychologically damaged by their outcast status: "for bombs do not trouble the nerves of the invert, but rather that terrible silent bombardment from the batteries of God's good people".
Silent Hill wasn't terrible, nor was the first Mortal Kombat movie.
What follows is surely one of the most jarring wordless sequences ever committed to film, one that features no dialogue but which is far from silent — it contains bursts of terrible noise.
It was set for the scene in which Susan leaves Kane (Welles' wife, Virginia, had brought suit for divorce during the month Welles had his tantrum), and Mankiewicz wrote it up rather floridly and with explicit directions, in a passage beginning, "Kane, in a truly terrible and absolutely silent rage . .
As I mentioned earlier today, Silent Hill: Origins wasn't terrible by any means, but the thought of handing over one of the PlayStation's best games to Climax, its developers, is, well, a little unnerving.
