suggestiveness
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Its suggestiveness has made music a subject of perennial fascination to novelists, who work with a very different tool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
In this power of suggestiveness lies music’s greater range of spiritual force even when the feeling expressed is not of the deepest.
From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke
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