They live in near-constant silence, stoically bearing the drudgery of their hand-to-mouth existence.

NEWYORKER: Turin Horse, The

But there are also homecomings as terrible in their way as exile: parents who finally reclaim children from orphanages, but live out their relationships in stigma and silence, for ever hoarding food and quailing before policemen.

ECONOMIST: The Soviet Union

Anonymous blogging, then, seems like a jolly good idea, especially in a world where bloggers can be blackmailed or bullied into silence, and where some seem to live in fear of a fatwa.

BBC: WEBLOG WATCH

The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The feminist deception