Sentence examples for vast silence from inspiring English sources

A vast silence reigned over the land.

We parked; I opened a car door onto the vast silence of a valley.

But when it was over, the square was filled with a vast silence.

"The vast silence — the awful, condoning silence that surrounded the affair fits a groove worn," he reflected.

Many of the students' lack of awareness of the lens of race, the vast silence on these matters in many workshop.

"It wasn't a threatening burp," he judges, "in fact the bizarreness of it put me quite at ease: the strain of the vast silence between strangers, from quite different worlds, meeting in a field, relieved by a belch.

But archaeologists in recent years have moved beyond this mind-set by breaking through some of the vast silences of the Central Asian past.

That vast communal silence.

You can walk the paths in a vast hanging silence and stillness, and then turn back and see Stonehenge as it should be seen - a bleak mass of stones with no truck in sight.

The raucous, threshold-shredding improvisations for one, two, and many musicians seem surrounded by a vast, awesome silence, pierced by cosmic electro-transmogrifications from Sun Ra's luminous cockpit of keyboards, plus the clarion declamations of June Tyson.

"I regret Coltrane's death," the English poet Philip Larkin wrote in 1967, "as I regret the death of any man, but I can't conceal the fact that it leaves in jazz a vast, blessed silence".