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

Real character in photography comes from a precise, rich engagement with the suggestiveness of the physical world.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2016

Many of his aphorisms are indeed dark sayings, but those that yield their meaning are full of truth and suggestiveness.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward