muteness
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Against this thick muteness, my ears strained to listen for something, anything.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2021
Recently I wrote a book about those things, Recollections Of My Non-Existence, about the muteness of my formative years.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020
Johns’s muteness about his work is a refusal to take responsibility for how it affects us.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Nietzsche’s father died early, from “softening of the brain,” after suffering years of debilitating headaches and periodic muteness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
Reverend Salles has written to tell him that Vincent “has withdrawn into absolute muteness, hides himself under his bedcovers and sometimes cries without uttering a word.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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