wordlessness

Example Sentences

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When Shane sang, that silence, the awful wordlessness was defeated.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023

And few actors brought such profound visceral weariness — and agitation — to Beckett’s wordlessness.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2023

It’s apt that at evening’s end, the performers stare out at the audience, in a period of serene wordlessness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023

The purity of it, it’s wordlessness – seems like a way through the divide into connection.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2019

I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythms of transience as if into bed.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood