dumbness

This is not dumbness, or denseness, or illiteracy, but belligerent unenlightenment.

Not to be outdone in collective dumbness, the smart people at Daimler had paid $36 billion for Chrysler in 1998.

In absolute dumbness Stanton and Cornelia sat listening until the horrid sound died away.

At Oxford Circus they got out, and left me pondering on deafness and dumbness.

This dumbness does not mean that his mouth was silent and did not utter a word, for he prophesied in chapters xxv-xxxii.

He knew so well, how many thousands of times had he seen, that same look of questioning, pitiful in its dumbness.

The stealing out had been fun, but with the freedom of the tops the sense of conspiracy ceased, and gave place to dumbness.