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
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
Mr. Wurtz plays on the endless suggestiveness of existing forms.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2011
Without style there was no suggestiveness, and with no suggestiveness, no metaphor.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2010
It seems as if he were lavishing over strange juxtapositions of beauty and decay all the sensuous fascination of Keats and the lingering suggestiveness of Shelley's lyrics.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
