11.   Anheuser-Busch is broadcasting a message of sympathy, white-lettered on a black-backed TV screen, in utter silence.

12.   If your audience reacts with utter silence or dumb-struck nods of the head, you know they have given no thought at all to this matter.

13.   The captive, John Walker Lindh, rewarded his interrogator with utter silence.

14.   There is utter silence.

15.   There was utter silence.

16.   Usually, she said, there is utter silence.

17.   There was utter silence aboard.