Sentences with phrase «sit in silence on»

Sometimes we would just sit in silence on the phone.

But there is something to gain in sitting in silence on a bare floor and using the low - cycle hum around you to pluck the signal from among scattered thoughts.

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On a recent weeknight, an anemic crowd sat nursing drinks mostly in silence as an episode of «Jeopardy!» flickered across a flat - screen TV.

After all the evangfundibapticostal exhortations, studies, books and retreats on prayer, it wasn't until I began learning to sit in silence that healing, peace and hope began to return.

And she lays across me, we're together again, my pulse slows down, and her lashes fan out on her cheeks, and she nurses and we sit in the silence of the end of the day.

The priest offers a meditation on the Gospel and we sit in silence again — this time for two minutes.

When a good text comes home to him, «This,» he writes, «gave me good encouragement for the space of two or three hours»; or «This was a good day to me, I hope I shall not forget it»; or «The glory of these words was then so weighty on me that I was ready to swoon as I sat; yet not with grief and trouble, but with solid joy and peace»; or «This made a strange seizure on my spirit; it brought light with it, and commanded a silence in my heart of all those tumultuous thoughts that before did use, like masterless hell - hounds, to roar and bellow and make a hideous noise within me.

In silence you and God sit, your head on his chest.

I met Jesus through 6 sessions of compassion therapy and mindfulness meditation, and then moving on to Christian meditation where the practice is sitting in silence with the simple prayer «come Lord».

I can remember sitting right back there just a few rows from the back in worship when there was a time of silence, and all of a sudden I knew I was on holy ground — such a glow within me and around me as I became aware of the invisible presence of all those who have stood in this place and heard God's call, of all those who have made life - changing decisions right here.

He sat in silence as the clock on the car radio turned over to 3:00 a.m., crawling toward the end of his 12 - hour shift.

As he finally opted to break his silence following the controversial moment which landed him in hot water, Evra is on holiday but is still working hard as he was filmed pulling a car with a fella sat on top of it just for good measure.

She told me about a woman everyone else had given up on, with whom she just sat in silence.

Sometimes I just want to sit on my couch in silence and do absolutely nothing.

On the whole I sit there in silence and listen» - but he clearly relishes his weekly «sparring match» with Commons leader Chris Grayling, a man who he says «never looks very happy....

Police officers remembered one of their fallen brothers with a moment of silence Thursday afternoon — under a clear blue sky at the spot where he was gunned down two years ago, while sitting in his car on a Queens street.

Most Democrats — including Rep. David Obey (Minn.), the man who was leading the teachers - and - cops bill on the floor — sat in silence.

It can even mean just sitting in silence and reflecting on your goals and dreams.

Most of his listeners sat in stunned (or perhaps just bored) silence: why was this young physicist wasting their time on such philosophical drivel?

A French device is now on sale in Britain that sits on a dog's collar and emits a squirt of a chemical said to silence barking dogs.

Sit or lie on the floor in a quiet room in a comfortable position, rest both hands on your stomach, and breathe deeply, focusing on the silence.

Sitting in a café or at the bus stop, you listen in on conversations between people: grannies gossiping, spouses bickering, teenagers flirting and the banal and terrible stuttering and silences that happen between people.

The practice involves sitting with each other in silence, making eye contact, breathing in unison, and simply being present with your hand on each other's hearts.

Taking 5 minutes a day to focus on mental health by practicing alternate nostril breathing, sitting in silence, doing some quiet restorative yoga poses or practicing a short meditation (try Gratitude Meditation) can help to establish a connection with our mental state and spiritual health as we release our hold on old stresses and prepare to move from one busy season to the next.

• Relaxation can practiced sitting in silence at a desk or with heads down on the desk.

Meditation can do so many wonderful things to relieve stress from the mind and body, and you don't have to sit on a mat with your hands crossed in silence to do meditate or practice mindfulness.

The waiter gave me pitying looks as I sat in silence while my oblivious date droned on about I - don't - even - remember - what.

The silence of texting, versus the cacophony of talking are the same in terms of rude behavior because both negate conversation and force the person who's not texting or talking on the phone to sit patiently and quietly, an entirely unreasonable expectation.

That's to say nothing of the effete bugaboo who insists on talking up Isabelle every time she visits the fish market, or the black gallerist with whom she briefly holds hands before he declares he'd rather not rush into things, or the handsome young cab driver who makes eyes at her as they sit listening to public radio in comfortable silence — or Isabelle's ex-husband, still in the picture.

Mark Cerny will be trotted out on stage at E3 2017 and we'll all sit in stony silence as grown men jibber about how much fun they're having playing an action platformer with so much personality -LRB-?)

Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing is a more eye - catching and artistically adventurous than his follow - up, The Look of Silence, but steep yourself in the latter's rhythm and atmosphere for its entirety and you'll discover a movie that will haunt you, sit on your shoulders and whisper in your ear for a long, long time.

The aforementioned church scene is an example of where this native silence works quite well, racking focus clearly on the sweet, heart - rending vocals, but for a movie ostensibly about alienation and disconnect, there are many scenes — Johnny sitting in the kitchen when the rest of the family rushes out to meet George and Madeleine, for instance, or a late - act scene between Ashley and George at the hospital — where the audio is just flat.

As the demon Surtur sits on his enormous throne in the fire - realm Muspelheim, dangling Hemsworth's chained Asgardian prince from the ceiling and laying out his plan for the destruction of Asgard (the «Ragnarok» of the title), Thor keeps interrupting, inspiring gloriously awkward silences and pauses that wouldn't be out of place in Michael Scott's corner office.

By the time I've written the title on the board you need to be sitting in silence.

So teach your students about the significance of Remembrance Day (see teaching resource) and also give them the opportunity to sit in silence and reflect on those who lost their lives so that we could live.

After the cameras turned on, both sets of students sat for a few moments in stunned silence staring at one another.

It's quiet, comfortable and efficient, but doesn't lose out on performance or kit - and the electric motor means it will work well for those who spend time in the car waiting, as it can be charged up or simply sit in silence.

Cubby and Icara could sit together in the playground or on the bus or in the library not saying much for hours, just a lovely rhythmic silence, like the sound of breathing when you're asleep.

Your dog soon learns to watch passersby in silence and to give voice when they step on your property, but to sit and shush when they are invited indoors — a trained neighborhood watchdog, which even non-dog-owning neighbors will welcome on the street where they live.

One day I sat down on my sofa, in silence and thought deeply about what I wanted to do.

Whether doing nothing translates to sitting in the ocean waiting for a wave, sitting around a fire looking at the night stars, meditating in silence, or simply hanging out of a hammock on the terrace, this kind of stillness can often be enough to create a sense of accomplishment in a day well spent.

In possibly one of the most embarrassing acts seen at an event we saw Usher sing and dance on stage shouting things like «Get up» to the audience while they sat there in silencIn possibly one of the most embarrassing acts seen at an event we saw Usher sing and dance on stage shouting things like «Get up» to the audience while they sat there in silencin silence.

Some of the sculptures sit on pedestals made from the boxes used for transporting them and the spec - tator perceives the silence in that which is not shown.

It's just two people hired to talk about whatever on mall - like park benches, but they'd been there all day, so they were sitting in silence.

Snyder: I do sometimes paint in silence when I feel the need to just sit and look at a painting, whether it could stand on its own without the music.

And who had the authority to deem that the IPCC and RC or cliamte scientists in general were above hearing someone else opinion on the subject of how they present their materail to the wolrd, and how they have abidacted the field of battle when it comes to the outrageous verballing of themsleves and sit in silence behind a cone of silence... leaving the genral public out there not knowing WTF is going on having to rely on sheer chance they might find a journalist there somewhere writing an article that might explain it for them in a way they can understand?

As a general matter, a small percentage is always responsible for most of the communication and interaction, regardless of fora, while the remainder lurk (on a listserv) or simply sit in silence (at a conference).

I sat disappointed in silence instead of challenging my colleague on his assertions about women or over the appropriateness of his very public tale telling and I bit my tongue at the urge to correct the man on my other side on both his assumption about what type of bucks I made and whether or not I was a scumbag.

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Sit in silence, focusing on nothing but your breathing and clearing your mind of any distractions.