Wiktionary
n. An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, or other discomfort.
WordNet
n. a conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event; "there was a conspiracy of silence about police brutality"
Wikipedia
Conspiracy of silence may refer to:
- Conspiracy of silence (expression), an expression
- "Conspiracy of Silence" (The Avengers), an episode of the 1960s espionage series, The Avengers
- Conspiracy of Silence (film), a 2003 film about Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland
- The Conspiracy of Silence, a 1995 documentary film about domestic violence
- Conspiracy of Silence, documentary film about the Franklin child prostitution ring allegations
- Conspiracy of Silence, a novel in the Space: 1889 & Beyond series, by Andy Frankham-Allen & Frank Chadwick
- Conspiracy of Silence, a 1951 book, by Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, also known later as The Accused
- Conspiracy of Silence, a 1991 CBC made-for-television film about the murder of Helen Betty Osborne.
Conspiracy of Silence is a British drama film set in Ireland and inspired by real events. The film challenges celibacy and its implication for the Catholic Church in the 21st century.
Written and directed by John Deery, the cast includes: Academy Award-winner Brenda Fricker, Hugh Bonneville, Chris O'Dowd, John Lynch, Jonathan Forbes, Jason Barry, Sean McGinley, Fintan McKeown, Jim Norton and Hugh Quarshie.
The movie won many international awards including the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures' Freedom of Expression Award in 2004, which it shared with Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. Deery was also nominated for Best Film Director at the Irish Film Awards in 2003. The screenplay was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab in Utah and won the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Award presented to Deery at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.
The film was invited to be shown at many film festivals in 2003 to be in Competition and/or Official Selection including: Taormina, Italy (first public screening, June 2003), Moscow International Film Festival, Opening Night film at the Galway Film Festival, Ireland, Montreal Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award, Dinard Festival of British Cinema, France, and the American Film Institute (AFI) Festival in Los Angeles. It received an art house release in the United States but, so far, has not been released in the UK.
A conspiracy of silence, or culture of silence, describes the behavior of a group of people of some size, as large as an entire national group or profession or as small as a group of colleagues, that by unspoken consensus does not mention, discuss, or acknowledge a given subject. The practice may be motivated by positive interest in group solidarity or by such negative impulses as fear of political repercussion or social ostracism. It differs from avoiding a taboo subject in that the term is applied to more limited social and political contexts rather than to an entire culture. As a descriptor, conspiracy of silence implies dishonesty, sometimes cowardice, sometimes privileging loyalty to one social group over another. As a social practice, it is rather more extensive than the use of euphemisms to avoid addressing a topic directly.
Some instances of such a practice are sufficiently well-known or enduring to become known by their own specific terms, including Code of silence for the refusal of law enforcement officers to speak out against crimes committed by fellow officers and omertà, cultural code of organized crime in Sicily.
Conspiracy of Silence is the twenty-third episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 3 March 1963. The episode was directed by Peter Hammond and written by Roger Marshall.
Usage examples of "conspiracy of silence".
There was a tacit conspiracy of silence in the temple about the hand, and when there was any risk of exposure, a priestess would step in to alleviate it.
At evening he fell into a rage, and imagined that, not content with leaving him flat, she had engineered a conspiracy of silence to cover her tracks.
This mild conspiracy of silence covered the Brackenfield General as well.
He isnt going to get the opportunity, there is a cover-up, a conspiracy of silence, this new inspector A conspiracy, said Jennifer.
Here are the wives and children of the Colorado coal-miners being shot and burned in their beds by Rockefeller gun-men, and the press of the entire country in a conspiracy of silence concerning the matter.
It was a conspiracy of silence, an unspoken agreement to support Sanglant over the Varren usurpers.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a conspiracy of silence, but the xenologists who drop by to study them either get adopted themselves or else don't seem to learn very much before they get bored and leave.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a conspiracy of silence but the xenologists who drop by to study them either get adopted themselves or else don't seem to learn very much before they get bored and leave.
The Star Kingdom had protested the conspiracy of silence, of course.
It was a tacit conspiracy of silence that even the city administration accepted.
There was a tacit conspiracy of silence about such things in the palace, and all the staff and artisans protected each other whenever they could.