Sentence examples for surrounding silence from inspiring English sources

The sounds animate the surrounding silence.

You cannot tell the story of AIDS without exploring the surrounding silence.

As a journalist I find the conjunction - and the surrounding silence - interesting.

He was a firecracker constantly exploding in the bland backyards of America and sounding louder because of the surrounding silence.

He arranges his figures in the hostile landscape so that they seem overmastered by it; then he holds the shots longer than expected, until menace builds up in the surrounding silence and our nerves are close to snapping.

MacCulloch turns to the less edifying uses of silence: the silence surrounding the Holocaust, slavery, clerical abuse; the silencing of non-heterosexual, non-male voices within the church.

My journeys in space have taught me the value of being perfectly quiet and surrounded by silence.

Maybe part of it is that a silence surrounded him — the silence produced by the total absence of small talk, flattery, posturing, etc., which was amplified for me by having flown in from the cacophony of New York.

It begins slowly, and it is surrounded with silence.

We were surrounded by silence and a lunar beauty; urban pressures seemed impossibly far off.

It was so much better to be noticed than to be surrounded by silence".