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
That last word conveyed an unpleasant suggestiveness of the atmosphere of courts, and of the atmosphere of courts the rustic mind stands in holy terror.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
