| Despite the relative chaos, the building retained an odd noiselessness, even once the power returned. |
| Like when you're riding a bike downhill and you stop pedaling, there's noiselessness in its speed. |
| The ride up the lift had been an exercise in solitude, and now, skiing my way down the mountain, I came to a stop, enveloped by noiselessness. |
| It's the kind of noiselessness in which a man's thoughts can creep up on him from behind and grab him in a stranglehold. |
| The noiselessness was broken momentarily by a set of footsteps, rustling the snow-crusted leaves. |
| This is not the silence classically associated with small-town America, a noiselessness that probably doesn't exist anymore anyway. |
