suggestiveness

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Cleary, a National Book Award nominee for her translation of Roque Larraquy’s “Comemadre,” preserves the muted suggestiveness of Ospina’s prose.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

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

Without style there was no suggestiveness, and with no suggestiveness, no metaphor.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2010

In this power of suggestiveness lies music’s greater range of spiritual force even when the feeling expressed is not of the deepest.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald