suggestiveness
Example Sentences
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The suggestiveness of silence often creates a headwind for authors, who might seem not to have earned their text’s mystery.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2020
Seemingly lackadaisical, Mills’ paintings are exceptionally efficient, both for the brevity of their gestures and for the suggestiveness of their compositions — which are sketchy in the best sense of the term.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
But he conceded that the suggestiveness was the product of happenstance and not official conduct.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2011
Without style there was no suggestiveness, and with no suggestiveness, no metaphor.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2010
There was no forecastle forward to break the sweeping line of rail, and the broad quarter-deck that overhung her slender stern had also its suggestiveness to a seaman's eye.
From Thrice Armed by Harold Bindloss
