Sentences with phrase «stony silence»

Boris Johnson snubs treacherous Michael Gove's olive branch with stony silence in awkward meeting

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-?)

The proposals, offered in last - minute negotiations over the weekend, were met by stony silence from Mr. Silver, the aides said.

On more than one occasion after a lengthy idle period, I would tap to resume music playback or tap and hold to try out the translation feature, only to be met by stony silence.

Burnham stood in stony silence as the crowd of 30,000 rose as one, and began to echo the demand.

Here, Lynch struggles to say something articulate, and Silverman's stony silence throughout much of their «dialogue» suggests the kind of embarrassment that comes from being caught in public with an outcast to whom you've become acclimatized in private.

However, if you've already chased them a couple of times and received nothing but stony silence in return, you might need to try a different approach, angle, or twist on the topic.

Also, unlike the first film, this one relies very heavily on US gags / jokes / references, which just don't translate to the UK as we don't know what's being referenced - there was stony silence through some parts of this movie - then again, there were only 8 of us in a large central London cinema.

The shockwave of this event makes an already dysfunctional family fall apart at the seams, as the father (Jeff Daniels, The Hours) withdraws into stony silence, the mother (Sigourney Weaver, The Village) devolves into a bout of hedonistic pleasures, and Tim can't put himself together no matter what he does.

Most adults can remember the sudden system shock of these mornings; the alarm going off unreasonably early, the shivering cold of the bathroom, the family gathered in stony silence around the table, munching forlornly on soggy toast.

They sat, in mutual stony silence, unable to break the cycle of negativity that had so thoroughly overtaken them.

The governor's agenda, however, was greeted with stony silence by the Legislature — leading Cuomo to create the Moreland Commission in July, just days after the completion of the legislative session.

A snore emanated from the commander's flap, and stony silence from the others.

Half a dozen inmates stared at us in stony silence as we left the corridor, and instinctively I turned my head away, feeling anxious for the first time.

Wolf's act had some in the audience laughing and left others in stony silence.

Any claims by conservatives that they share your anger over Obamacare or the president's immigration executive orders should be met with stony silence.

Hearken we ever so diligently, we are rewarded only with a stony silence.

(4) do none of the above and maintain his conviction that there is a god, prayer works and Texas is special in god's eyes while maintaining a stony silence about what went wrong in this case.

It was never going to change the outcome as that was assured and the home fans greeted their goal with stony silence but it was a strange flat atmosphere until the Chilean's piece of individual brilliance put the good feeling back in Arsenal hearts.

He was greeted by a stony silence.

«The stony silences.

Applause is very rarely heard in the Commons chamber but MPs from all sides loudly clapped and cheered Benn — while Corbyn sat in stony silence.

The stony silence from the shadow chancellor's camp speaks volumes.

When Lloyd entered the Commons afterwards he was greeted with uproarious cheers; the prime minister was met with stony silence.

de Blasio, also a Massachusetts native, is an avowed Red Sox fan who has maintained a stony silence on the Yankees during his three and a half years as the mayor of Yankee Town.

The Home Secretary delivered a speech to the Police Federation's annual conference which was met with a stony silence throughout.

But when the strong, such as China, or those with resources we covet, such as Saudi Arabia, are the offenders, a stony silence emanates from Downing Street and King Charles Street.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — The morning after, we know little more about the fate of Europe's Mars lander Schiaparelli than we did last night: It ceased communicating 50 seconds before its predicted landing time and all efforts to contact it again have been met with a stony silence.

However, others marriages were still able to survive the occasional slammed door and stony silence.

and wants couples whose arguments sometimes lead to «plates flying» (which draws a big laugh from the audience though if you or I said this there would be stony silence), to make peace before bedtime.

Every effort to turn him into a legit action star has been met with stony silence, if not open contempt.

As the credits rolled on Jennifer Fox's The Tale there was stony silence.

Others, she has found, listen to her in stony silence, gritting their teeth, the veins in their necks bulging.

As authorizing - board members listened in stony silence, the school board's new chair explained that a recent «self - assessment» revealed that staffers had been misusing school credit cards, teacher retention was miserable, the front office was staffed «like a Fortune 500 company,» and two - thirds of the previous year's students hadn't verified that they were D.C. residents and eligible to attend at D.C. taxpayer expense.

Her speech was heard in a mixture of mainly polite to stony silence and some heckling.

And pretty much universally all the suggestions made that have a ring of «But Amazon does it this way and it's better» are met with a stony silence that has a serious ring of «Go fly a kite».

The standard image of the larger players is built on stony silence.

While the initial complaint was met with stony silence, once he contacted the press department of the company, things moved faster.

All your inquiries about the weather and traffic would be met with a stony silence, forcing you to endure the highly inconvenient procedure of firing up your smartphone.

The other may be get up from their seat and hand you their payment in stony silence.

But the stonewaller abandons these messages, replacing them with stony silence.