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
It is not how much the teacher says, but the suggestiveness of it, the problems raised, the questions whose answers lie in the examination of the lesson.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry
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