suggestiveness

Example Sentences

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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

Onscreen, “On Chesil Beach” loses some intensity at the end, as the supple suggestiveness of Mr. McEwan’s prose is replaced by the stagy literalness of film.

From New York Times • May 16, 2018

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

I recall an incident during my visit to London on this occasion which aptly illustrates the want of suggestiveness on the part of Englishmen.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis