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

The classroom wasn’t the only area of Cutter’s life affected by her voicelessness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2015

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

Finally, the wailing for the dead is continued night and day to the point of utter voicelessness; a musical, weird, and heart-piercing sound, which has been compared to the "keening" of the Celtic mourner.

From The Soul of the Indian by Eastman, Charles Alexander