Sentences with phrase «appalled silence»

Those old enough to know what was inside stared in appalled silence, fidgeting in their school uniforms as they edged a little closer to their mothers.

Despite his supposedly vastly superior charisma, Cameron only beats Miliband at PMQs roughly half the time, and that's with his rowdy backbenchers urging him on and Labour in the appalled silence it has sustained in the chamber for the last four years.

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Hillary Clinton broke her silence on the allegations leveled at Weinstein, saying in statement she was «shocked and appalled by the revelations» at her former campaign donor.

The historian Wraxall was distinctly sceptical: «Erskine successfully undertook to spurn at precedents... to appal or silence the judges themselves; to intimidate, convince or seduce the juries; to appeal from the understanding to the feelings... finally, to lead captive his audience, and to carry the cause that he defended or espoused, by extorting a sort of voluntary submission, sometimes yielded almost in defiance of evidence, facts, belief or conviction.»