Sentence examples for sitting mute from inspiring English sources
And then, that fall, with accusations of sexual harassment dominating the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, there was the televised spectacle of Ted Kennedy — long a champion of women's rights — sitting mute and powerless, silenced by the Palm Beach case.
This week, Nick Clegg confessed that one of his biggest regrets during his time in government was not a particular policy, but "sitting mute next to David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions every week".
Yet it's seen Cathy Freeman's hot lap, John Aliosi's golden penalty goal, and Billy Idol sitting mute aboard a flaming hovercraft shouting "We want some power!" as the entertainment for the 2002 NRL grand final fell flat.
"Sitting mute next to David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions every week was a sort of terrible encapsulation of what our critics said about us, that we were somehow just sort of passengers in the Government when in fact we were active architects rather than observers of the Government.
You hear gossip about the couple sitting mute and unhappy at a corner table, about the man traveling with a person who may or may not be his niece or about the spoiled celebrity who, having taken up residence at a hotel in Venice during the film festival there, complained that the clamor of the city's ancient church bells was disturbing her rest.
Everybody else was sitting there mute.
A few. And, what's with the radios, sitting on shelves, mute?
You get left so confused by the "hows" and "whys" that you can't actually formulate or articulate things like "feelings" or "opinions" and are just left sitting there like a mute staring at the screen like you're lock-eyed with the thing from The Ring.
He has an easy smile and is quietly helpful, distributing books when it's time to read and sitting with Patrick, deaf and mute, at every meal.
If you need more coaxing, here's a Hanson anecdote: At a dinner party I recently threw (read: pizza sitting on my floor watching tennis on mute), a Hanson song came on my iPod mix.
Staring, crying, mute, astonished, mounted on thin steel poles or sitting precariously on ledges, they are made of plasticene, wood, ceramic, brushes, screws, feathers, shells, bandages, syringes and other medical paraphernalia, materials in the main not so much found (an eternal magpie, Rebecca would spend hours trawling streets and skips) as finding a new role in retirement.
