Sentence examples for stays mute from inspiring English sources

Ingmar Bergman constructs a similar plight in "Persona" (1966), where a nurse chatters helplessly, as if filling a void, to her patient, who stays mute, but for Bergman the clash — the waves of speech beating against a rock — is psychological, whereas the old man and his niece, like their homeland, are under siege.

People know all this but stay mute.

"I had stayed mute too long; I had stayed mute too often," one of them says in the video.

But the White House cannot stay mute for long.

Of the veto-wielders, only China, which remains loth to punish Iran, stayed mute.

Yet most public memorials stay mute about the more divisive chapters of history.

Most Israeli Jews, however, seemed to feel comfortable with Justice Joubran's approach — standing respectfully but staying mute.

Once again, there's been no comment from Mr. Mendelson, but he can't stay mute forever.

Now a government demands people stay mute about allegations as disturbing as threatening a witness in a murder trial.

Simulation is rife in football, but even though some actions clearly bring the game into disrepute, the authorities stay mute.

Most media companies have stayed mute on the subject, but in an interview this week, the media mogul Barry Diller called the proposal a sham.