suggestiveness
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Its suggestiveness has made music a subject of perennial fascination to novelists, who work with a very different tool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
What Pound discovered in Noh echoed of his own developing Imagist aesthetic: suggestiveness, allusion, the static intensification of a single image that unifies each play.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2018
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
Again the blinking switch caught him, but he shrugged away its evil suggestiveness.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe
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