Around el alcalde (the mayor) there is a respectful, attentive silence.

The herdsman seemed to take courage from the attentive silence.

However, when it was over, they sat and listened in attentive silence as he gave them a vision of the future.

He peered over the screen at the crowd, and they subsided into an attentive silence.

He arose and spoke briefly amid the attentive silence of the assembly.

"A leaf," he rapped out, in the sudden attentive silence that had fallen.

Jordan had not heard him speak before; his voice was a high tenor, very mannered and hard to hear, even in this attentive silence.

Private Money merely watched the proceedings in attentive, and perhaps apprehensive, silence.

Crane merely smiled until his audience settled again into attentive silence.

This time the words were followed by an attentive silence.