Away from the whirl of bargains, he created a Silence Room where shoppers could escape London crowds.
The Silence Room is a reincarnation of a similar space installed by founder Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1909, who intended his quiet space on the fourth floor to be an area where men could wait for their wives while they shopped.
Her breathing was very soft, but still audible in the silence of the room, the hotel, and the island.
All because I had mentioned, in passing, the persistent silence of my room.
"There was a call for silence throughout the room, " he said.
On this afternoon at Associated, periodic silence in the room was broken by the loud, throbbing noise of generators in the vicinity--the sound of another outage.
When the silence of an empty room ignites a visceral impending doom reaction, challenge why you shudder out of terror.
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Most couples sat in the waiting room in silence, fearing, perhaps, that anything they said in front of the receptionist might be used against them.
Clarisse, hardly disturbing the silence, entered the room bearing a tray.
We, the audience, sat in nervous silence in a tiny dark room, and waited.
"There's a silence that falls upon the room as the kids watch him play, " said Tom Chau, vice president for research at Holland Bloorview, and who developed the Virtual Music Instrument.
There were no tears in the Syracuse locker room, just stunned silence.
The room fell into rapt silence.
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As everyone watched in stunned silence, Dolan stormed out of the room.
As they gave their accounts, the room filled with a heavy silence.
They were all looking to Titania to speak, but it was Oberon who finally broke the silence, announcing from the back of the room that the Beastie had died of its grief.
From one side of the room, Ed heard a suppressed giggle, from the other a silence that was too deep to be genuine.
Then the sudden loss of temper, the storming from the room, the slamming door at the end of the hall and the appalled silence afterward.
During the lifts, the room would go completely quiet no whoops or catcalls, just the deep silence of absolute concentration.
We do believe, however, that he is right on his main points, that his critique of much green activism and its reporting in the media is just, and, above all, that where there is room for disagreement, Mr Lomborg invites and facilitates discussion, rather than seeking to silence it.
There was something about the way he looked at us in silence, each person in turn, for those 3 minutes, that made a deep impression on everyone in the room.
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