Silence

The monastic vow of silence is solemn and unforgiving; we linger in a moment of silence to commemorate grim events; we punish each other for transgressions by responding to earnest entreaties with stone-faced silence.

Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other times silence is maintained as much as is practically possible.

Hortensia is not just a reliable Mage but also a valuable healer, since her learnable Silence Ward skill will protect allies and herself from falling victim to Silence staffs, which prevent enemies from utilizing staves and tomes for a turn.

She says she would sit in absolute silence and write, then she would sit in silence again when she needed to decompress from the writing.

They did not silence me, and they will not silence me.

Silence ensued, a silence that consumed Cherington for half a century.

Sunday, Spencer asked the crowd to observe a minute of silence for Floyd, asking a bystander to time the period of silence.

And you'll know yourself, the art of an interview is in disappearing a little bit — in knowing when not to speak, in knowing how to use silence, and that it's often in silence that people reveal themselves.

Of course, they may silence parliament for five weeks, but they cannot silence the people on the streets.

He doesn’t silence himself; we silence him.

He subsequently entered again for the prize in 2004 and won the award for the second time with his poetry collection–Between Silence and Silence.

In this regard “zones of silence” where people are talking back through silence or boycott might become a more visible part of the search for stable peace.

It said: “I hate night-times because night brings silence and silence brings tears of sadness, because that’s when I start to remember the blaze, the fire.

Practitioners must observe complete “noble silence”—which means “silence of body, speech, and mind”—and avoid eye contact with fellow meditators.

In the second chapter, Columbanus instructs that the rule of silence be "carefully observed", since it is written: "But the nurture of righteousness is silence and peace".

Many of Baba's followers continue to celebrate Silence Day by keeping silence in his honor.

Related and similar examples The pioneering French syntactician Lucien Tesnière came up with the French language sentence "Le silence vertébral indispose la voile licite" ("The vertebral silence indisposes the licit sail").

Silence was the only safe policy, but that silence is suggestive that grave danger was feared from his influence.

The live document Damage was released in 1994, as was the joint venture, Redemption – Approaching Silence, which featured Sylvian's ambient sound sculptures (Approaching Silence) accompanying Fripp reading his own text (Redemption).

The Silence – God’s silence — the negative imprint.