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 force of a quotation or a phrase imported from a foreign tongue depends, not upon the bare meaning of the words, but upon the suggestiveness of certain associations.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various