Word: silentes
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...salivating watchdogs at Media Matters bit, but most people didn’t blink. When the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib was likened to “a weekend in Las Vegas” by radio personality Jay Severin, the nation’s courthouses and airwaves were silent; there were no fiery calls for contrition...
...peddling prejudice—the more bilious, the better. Every day, millions of Americans gather with guilty grins around the speaker, waiting for the next slur to slide out. The audience doesn’t ever have to echo these views in civil society, only to smirk in silent complicity when they are voiced in the comfort of their sedan...
...colors arrived in the Coliseum and the crowd stood and went silent. When the flags arrived at the back of the arena, the crowd sat. Very distraught relatives of the dead were brought to random open seats around the auditorium. They were not fancy people. Some were in jeans, some in sunglasses; the kids carried backpacks. Most of the grieving families consisted of multiple generations: parents, siblings and grandparents. One very sad couple, fighting back tears, arrived alone and was shown to their seats. There was the uniform clatter of seats as Bush came in and the crowd stood...
...this silent majority, says Kakar, whose anger the extremists are trying to arouse. "The main thing is family, so they see any kind of sexuality as a threat to the family," he says...
...Infante has a natural nobility that explains why? José Carlos (J.C. for short) remains loving through this Calvary of abuse. In so many of his films, a Pedro smile or tear or grimace? make the wildest plot twist plausible (almost). A great spirit must endure great suffering. His silent soldiering-on here is no less heroic than the dreadful beating he takes, and then dishes out, during the Pepe el Toro boxing match. As the ringside announcer says with awe in that movie, "His heart is so big, his chest can't contain...