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

Without style there was no suggestiveness, and with no suggestiveness, no metaphor.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2010

And the answer carried a potential suggestiveness, which, under the circumstances, was unpleasant.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram