suggestiveness

Example Sentences

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“Godland” gestures at several intersecting themes — belief, the struggle to hold onto faith, the impermanence of being — with greater suggestiveness than depth.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

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

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2016

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 Thorndike, Ashley H.