unspoken

Hawke doesn’t overload their delicate dances or any of his other scene partnerships with an insistence on pulling the spotlight, true to his character’s unspoken self-regard as a guide who happens to investigate his curiosities.

It’s just something there, running in the background — an unspoken acknowledgment that being American is a pretty terrific thing to be.

The congresswoman’s bill made it into the headlines, and it reinforced the unspoken understanding that Glenn is not there to interrogate: He’s there to assist.

Glennie: There’s a kind of unspoken understanding that comes from a shared experience of deafness, one that goes beyond language or conventional musical cues.

His unspoken reasons for wanting to do so are obvious: The Dodgers are terrible.