Sentence examples for sinister silence from inspiring English sources

There's a monastic and slightly sinister silence".

For nearly a quarter-century, they have sat in sinister silence, concrete tombs of the city's transit system, choking off traffic and delaying thousands on their commutes.

And it would take a very melodramatic soul (or a clued-up geologist) to find its stillness scary, its silence sinister.

Child sexual abuse is an issue shrouded in secrecy, an intimate and sinister crime that silences victims -- an estimated 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys -- with feelings of shame, guilt and isolation, and emboldens predators -- who will offend against an average of 117 children in their lives -- with each new offense.

Where Littlefinger and Robb respond to their encounters with powerful women with silence, a more sinister path is taken by another profoundly insecure man attempting to assert his dominance over the female -- in the skin-crawling scene where petulant King Joffrey commands a prostitute to beat another bloody.

Ruby is cast in the buff literature as a sinister Mafia hit man, there to silence Oswald before he could speak.

Yet as we travel, it's never far from my mind that there are sinister forces penetrating the vast wild, silencing the songs of the animals.

As for life at school, he could imagine that himself: the sinister nuns, the tedious prayers, the oppressive silence.

In The Silence of the Lambs, a sinister-looking moth (actually the death's-head hawkmoth) is a serial killer's signature.

Critic Graham Straehle praised the sung parts as "languid, voluptuous and constantly evolving," while the instrumental passages conveyed "a deep, sinister presence with elegiac interludes and chilling silences that mark the trajectory to doom".

There's always something sinister about these closed doors and this impersonal silence.