silence
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“The Silence of the Lambs” remains the only horror film to win best picture at the Academy Awards.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
A Thousand Blows is also up for the prestigious best drama prize alongside last year's winner Blue Lights, plus Code of Silence and This City is Ours.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
Amanda is enraptured with its aspirational luxury: “The house had that hush expensive houses do. Silence meant the house was plumb, solid, its organs working in happy harmony.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Bellowing "Silence, everyone!" to terrified parliamentarians, the man with a bushy moustache and shiny tricorn quickly caught the public's attention in an image engraved on the nation's collective memory.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
Silence hung upon the air while Redtooth and Cluny held a whispered conference.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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