muteness
Example Sentences
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I wondered if Sadie, with her supernatural ability and muteness, may be an archetypical prophet figure, like Tiresias, the blind soothsayer from the Greek dramas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
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
The price of that protection is a conspicuous moral muteness: The light has gone under a bushel, and the salt has lost its flavor.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
She entered one of her long periods of silence—I think it lasted several months—during which she used her little slate, as she had in her days of muteness.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
