The silence was
often deafening as orders went unfilled and people haphazardly bumped into each other.
Not exact matches
The metal - on - metal crunch, the
deafening roar of an engine and that eerie instant of silence before impact all stimulate the senses,
often producing a simultaneous wince and grin.
Horror movies
often play with the contrast between deathly silence and
deafening cacophony, one puncturing the other to shred nerves and send asses out of seats.
Leaders
often have time to process their own reactions to change before the change is presented to the staff, and by then the leaders just want to get on with implementing the change — but if the leaders don't get all the staff involved in the process, there will be resistance, if not overt, then in the form of non-committal and
deafening silence, when the change is attempted.
What
often follows is that both partners get locked in a stalemate of
deafening silence.