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

The Marvel movies and others of their kind often produce an illusion of profundity, a slick, murky overlay of allegorical suggestiveness.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 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

My experience in Saratoga had revealed to me the want of suggestiveness and resource in men in general.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis