"You must invent something, then," said the kind-hearted woman, guessing at the horror behind my silence.

He stood behind her, his silence pure and cold.

What is behind the father's silence and the confusion originated by the son?

I wanted to ask her what lay behind his silence, what could she divine?

There is, of course, something discreditable behind his silence.

But behind his silence, they were piling up, like stones before an avalanche.

Several factors are behind the Catholic hierarchy's silence on today's religious wars.

Because you do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written behind your silence and your suffering.

To the sorcerer, the earth's own vitality seemed locked behind the Stormwarden's silence.

He felt the chill behind her silence.