Sentence examples for vast silent from inspiring English sources

The reef loomed over us, a vast, silent underwater apartment house packed with tenants of incredible strangeness, beauty and diversity.

That afternoon, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers, individually and in families, dressed in white and proceeded through the streets in a vast, silent, expression of protest.

The strength of Moon is also, paradoxically, its weakness: its evocation of loneliness and the vast, silent reaches of outer space.

Anyone who stays very long in the vast silent mausoleums lined with works about Plato and his influence runs the risk of suffocating.

Others come for the desert, to trek across the vast silent wastes of the Sahara that lie in the south of the country.

Gille conjures "vast, silent avenues lined with large houses" edged by plane trees and chestnuts, where Irène's family lived and where the little girl staged Napoleonic battles with toy soldiers.

A vast reverberating, silent crash changing everything.

When I heard that the poet Anne Carson was living there as an artist in residence, working on a choral piece in Stykkisholmur, I asked her what her impressions were of the headline-making nation: Vast empty silent.

More arrived every minute, until, when an ambulance left carrying the bodies of Liu and Ramos, they formed a vast and silent honour guard, saluting solemnly in the flashing lights.

It was not a Northern Rock-style panic, where ordinary savers queued up to take out their cash, but a vast and silent run on the bank by big businesses in the know.

Walking out alone into the Sahara desert, and feeling and seeing the infinite remoteness of its vast, empty, silent, golden dunes was like staring up at the night sky when you're someplace isolated and the sky's just so heavy and thick with stars, which seem to proliferate right before your eyes, you feel almost meaningless.