wordless
Example Sentences
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And although they recall many wordless moments of repose between takes, the shoot enlivened the actors far more than it exhausted them.
From Los Angeles Times
Then, when The Blind Man realizes that the rumored “Spirit of the Forest” is, in fact, this wounded, wordless being seeking nothing more than company, his reaction is not terror but tenderness.
From Salon
The Predator is an extreme example: a literal monster from the Freddy Krueger generation, virtually wordless and best known for inflicting R-rated violence and taking the skulls of victims as trophies.
The most striking departures are the handful of wordless sequences of Hujar and Rosenkrantz posing in the manner of a fashion shoot, scored to snippets of Mozart’s Requiem.
“As an actor, you really appreciate when a director is searching for the wordless expressions and the subtleties,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
