She couldn't stand the reverential silence.

Arbus's pictures are characterized by a certain reverential silence; she listens as her subjects explain something of themselves.

The reverential silence was broken by a faint sniggering.

Jazz, of course, is not meant to be listened to in reverential silence.

The kind of reverential silence that takes hold in a mosque.

He walked to the bag belt and bowed his head for a moment of reverential silence over the man he'd just murdered.

After that first scene her every entrance was met with the same applause from the audience, followed by almost reverential silence.

The room took on a reverential silence: perhaps it made us all a bit self-conscious.

They had descended the tiers to the bottom level in almost reverential silence.

This reverential silence was more impressive than the organized ceremonial of the following days.