Sentences with phrase «better than silence»

Even if you don't know the answer or can give websites to reference, that honesty is better than silence to genuine, heartfelt questions.

Great rant, all truth, but I do wonder if board really does care how much fans stamp their feet, but it's better than the silence and acceptance every year.

Not exact matches

For the better part of the last 20 years, the idea of a guaranteed annual income (GAI), a government funded unconditional annual income floor below which no family or individual can fall, has been met with ridicule, dismissal, silence and, more often than not, legislation -LSB-...]

He wanted to know how anyone could call God good, and he stayed in the conversation — sometimes with anger and other times through tears — until he heard something other than silence.

Also, kids in Quaker meetings seem to usually recognize the palpable sacredness of the silence, and so they seem to be able to behave better than one might expect.

There was an uncomfortable silence as she continued, «I wonder if more people aren't motivated by power rightly used and influence for the good than we've let on, only it's been socialized out of us?»

(If there can be any question or an analogy, the circumstance of the death of Pythagoras furnishes it, for the silence which he had always maintained he had to carry through in his last moment, and therefore [being compelled to speak] he said, «It is better to be put to death than to speak» [cf. Diogenes Laertius, viii.

The continuing secular popularity of Pope Francis, thought Sandro Magister, had a good reason, which «explains better than any other the benevolence of worldwide secular public opinion toward Francis... [and that is] his silence in the political camp, especially on the minefield that sees the greatest opposition between the Catholic Church and the dominant culture.

is often silenced by the part of me that says but you could do so much better than that!

What better way to start than the second - leg against Monaco — with a 3 - 1 defeat suffered in the first - leg — this would be the perfect moment for Ozil to silence his critics, and spur Arsenal on to an epic Champions League comeback.

Arsenal tell a different story they win more games than Liverpool and than they put the icing on the cake by wining the FA cup and beating Chelsea truly well sending all the doubters with their banners to the silence corner Well done Arswell sending all the doubters with their banners to the silence corner Well done ArsWell done Arsenal

I would love nothing better than for mesut ozil to shatter the premier league assist record, by a country mile and silence his critics!Coyg

I believe we couldn't win this game, because we went to it with the most predictable line up When you know the other side has planned everything to silence Mesut, why not try another program and surprise them I don't know, of course Arsene knows better than me Just want to talk right now

Goodell acknowledged that the culture of silence is alive and well; that too many players still hide concussions, and have a «play through, rather than a play safe mentality.»

Perhaps I should have just stayed out of it and ignored it from the beginning but I felt more good could come from dialog than from silence.

Being playful with sound is something we're all born with — indeed, toddlers are humanity's greatest virtuosos in that regard - yet too many are silenced over the years by the «better seen than heard» brigade.

It is far better to be able to pre-empt any potential difficulties by highlighting any potential concerns to the team of health care professionals caring for you, than for you to sit in silence and suffer with concerns alone.

It's unclear why Tony Blair is better placed to advise the country on its profound human rights issues than the skilled global NGOs and international organisations who have, year after year, offered Kazakhstan advice on how, for instance, it can hold free elections, not murder striking workers and not silence bloggers or the country's few remaining independent journalists.

Silence is better than writing utter rubbish to ridicule yourself by exposing your ignorance and folly.

After underlining to Stati the importance of prudence when dealing with earthquakes, and in particular that one should never state that there won't be further tremors, Bertolaso then went on to tell her what the experts were to say: «It is a normal situation, these phenomena [the tremors] happen, it's better that there are 100 magnitude - 4 tremors rather than silence because 100 tremors release energy and there won't ever be the damaging tremor.»

Don't be shy to talk to your stylists / manicurist, it's a lot better than sitting in an awkward silence while they pamper you!

The decision, which broke the committee's more than 40 years of silence on coffee, was driven by heightened interest in the caffeinated beverage as well as a growing anxiety about potential health risks associated with it, according to Nelson.

which is always better than complete silence.

The few phone calls i had with one guy, were punctuated with good 5 -10 minute silences, bad english / bad grammar and 2 grandiose claims - of cooking food better than any chef and being drooled over by models.

It's far better to plan ahead than to be sitting in silence.

There is nothing worse than a one sided conversation (even awkward silences are better!)

When it comes to breaking those awkward silences then there can not be anything better than a hilarious joke.

Andrew Garfield also gets a nomination for his portrayal of the wartime conscientious objector Desmond Doss, and I have to say that this movie is a major leap forward for Garfield — his best work yet, and actually considerably more impressive than his contribution to Martin Scorsese's Silence.

Participant's more than 80 films, including Spotlight, Contagion, Lincoln, The Help, He Named Me Malala, The Look of Silence, CITIZENFOUR, Food, Inc. and An Inconvenient Truth, have collectively earned 56 Academy Award ® nominations and 12 wins, including Best Picture for Spotlight and Best Foreign Language Film for A Fantastic Woman.

What strikes you most about A Thousand Words — more than the terrible jokes, the downright boring plot and dull pace — is that someone thought it was a good idea to take a man whose entire comic persona is that of a fast talker — indeed, at one point the most engaging comedian on the planet — and silence him.

But the Harvey Weinstein jabs mostly stopped there — the night wasn't about the men who have been brought down by accusations of sexual misconduct, and no one encapsulated that better than Ms. Winfrey, who brought the often chatty and distracted crowd in the ballroom to rapt silence and even tears with her barnburner speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement — the first black woman to do so.

The high profile of its cast will probably give Silence better odds at some Oscar recognition than Scorsese's past low - key dramas.

«Blade Runner 2049» will clock in longer than «The Revenant» (156 minutes) and «Silence» (161 minutes) as well.

Best - case scenario: Depp silences the tedious carping about his recent work with a reminder of his eclecticism and charisma, while Cooper delivers on the promise of Crazy Heart and Out Of The Furnace with a movie that has a bit more swagger and style than those two well - acted but unremarkable dramas.

Reggie: Well, we're afraid our new console, the Wii U 2, is substantially weaker than the PS5 and the Xbox 2, and it's also devoid of any gimmicky controller... Audience: * awkward silence * Reggie:... but we have a new Zelda, a new Metroid, a new StarFox, a new F - Zero, 3 new IPS, a Majora's Mask remake and they're all launch titles!

Participant's more than 80 films, including Spotlight, Contagion, Lincoln, The Help, A Fantastic Woman, He Named Me Malala, The Look of Silence, CITIZENFOUR, Food, Inc., and An Inconvenient Truth, have collectively earned 56 Academy Award ® nominations and 12 wins, including Best Picture for Spotlight and Best Foreign Language Film for A Fantastic Woman.

One part intimate old school Western recalling William Wyler's The Big Country, another reveling in the Italian Spaghetti theatrics directors like Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and Sergio Corbucci (The Big Silence) practically invented, the movie's most obvious comparison might actually be the works of playwright Tennessee Williams, the scenario at hand owing more to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof than it does Once Upon a Time in the West or Shane.

Driver didn't headline Martin Scorsese's latest — that would be Andrew Garfield, inexplicably nominated for Best Actor in «Hacksaw Ridge» rather than «Silence» — but proved an essential piece to its puzzle, nonetheless.

Many will point to Anthony Hopkins» Best Actor win for The Silence of the Lambs in the 1992 ceremony despite being on screen for less than 20 minutes of the two hour film.

Echoes of Silence of the Lambs don't bode well in its favor, as we've seen the grisly, stylish psychopath movie far too often, and done with much more flair, than Fleder is able to muster here.

Even less change in Best Director this month than in Best Picture, with Martin Scorsese still ruling the roost with Silence.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

This will make a far better monetary stream than the business of having teachers employed by public schools create lessons and materials for a for - profit company (maybe grit has something to do with easily silenced scruples).

I would argue that silence is better than the sound of an inline - four.

To be fair, it's better than the usual dead silence.

«My editor had rejected my fourth novel, HOUSE OF SILENCE as too hard to market, but I sold 10,000 Kindle downloads in less than four months and Amazon UK selected it for its Top Ten Best of 2011 in the Indie Author category.

Words like «quiet» or «silence» are good, because words like «stop» and «no» can be vague and apply to more than just barking.

There's not a lot here other than a very photogenic lighthouse, a shipwreck and a far less - photographed sign than the one found at the Cape of Good Hope, but if you're the kind of traveler who likes superlatives, silence or photos of significant signs, then it's definitely worth the trek.

You might use a silenced pistol where stealth might be better than going in guns blazing.

The «Monotone - Silence Symphony» by the French painter Yves Klein is one of those artistic creations better known by reputation than through any actual encounter.