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
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
Without style there was no suggestiveness, and with no suggestiveness, no metaphor.
From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2010
One, by judgment in lighting and superior manipulation, will transfer to his plates more texture and suggestiveness of the different substances represented than the other.
