wordless

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If the drawings are wordless, the lines are eloquent enough.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

The Jewish composer recalled the niguns — wordless, improvised prayers — that he grew up hearing in synagogue, and he drew on that sense memory.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

Then, when The Blind Man realizes that the rumored “Spirit of the Forest” is, in fact, this wounded, wordless being seeking nothing more than company, his reaction is not terror but tenderness.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

The most striking departures are the handful of wordless sequences of Hujar and Rosenkrantz posing in the manner of a fashion shoot, scored to snippets of Mozart’s Requiem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

But that moment was also locked in darkness, was wordless, and would not come forth.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin