suggestiveness
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Cleary, a National Book Award nominee for her translation of Roque Larraquy’s “Comemadre,” preserves the muted suggestiveness of Ospina’s prose.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
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
The scattered poems in his later books that rise above the Poems and Ballads with a kind of grandiose suggestiveness are for the most part filled with echoes of wind and water.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More
