Sentence examples for violent silence from inspiring English sources

The world, for a moment, seemed to rise in collective upheaval and violent silence.

Yet Calasso's passion for the ostensibly peripheral is not confined to the roguishly humorous, as his astounding unveiling of the "violent silence" of Degas's 1865 painting Scène de guerre au Moyen Âge demonstrates.

Peronists and student militants, among others, protested Lanusse's regime, and the army employed violent tactics to silence the dissenters.

Telling the story of Fr Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit who follows his missionary vocation to Japan at a time of violent religious persecution, Silence is a compelling historical fiction, a potent distillation of the paradoxes and ambiguities of faith and, from a Christian author, a daring challenge to religious orthodoxy.

The Guggenheim's alarming action continues a growing worldwide trend in which threats of violent protest are silencing artistic expression and posing a danger to free speech in general.

Cartel threats, a substantial government propaganda campaign, and violent attacks have silenced local media from reporting on organized crime, and Tamaulipas — like much of Mexico — is rife with official corruption and systemic impunity.

With violence suppressed, the importance of struggle beneath systems of government is given little attention, and the possibility of an equally violent response is silenced.

After sustained gunfire – Guéant said one officer told him he had never seen "such an intense and violent assault" – there was silence.

As a protagonist, God may make too recalcitrant, too reactive, alternating imperious silence with violent rage, but maybe that is because, like most actors all he really wants to do is direct?

But it silences my violent instinct immediately and creates a sharp and terrible sympathy in parallel with the anger.

Would the current government's crackdown on non-violent extremism have silenced the founder of Christianity?