voicelessness

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A year later, the alternative rock band Eve’s Plum, fronted by Colleen Fitzpatrick, conflated wearing lipstick with female voicelessness.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

These are quintessential gothic concepts—female powerlessness and voicelessness, the house as body or psyche—but Moreno-Garcia turns them up to 11, as del Toro did with his own gothic film, 2015’s Crimson Peak.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2020

Its results were definitive — and explained the reason for Vivienne’s prolonged voicelessness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2019

About how Nas evoked Queensbridge’s voicelessness through poetry that was vivid and lurid, thrilling yet introspective, and dark with glimmers of hope.

From Time • Apr. 25, 2014

Night, thick, heavy, deep night!—No star visible amid the sulphureous blackness of the overcharged clouds; and silence, dreadful as if distilled from the voicelessness of the graves of a buried world!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various