suggestiveness
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Its suggestiveness has made music a subject of perennial fascination to novelists, who work with a very different tool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
What Pound discovered in Noh echoed of his own developing Imagist aesthetic: suggestiveness, allusion, the static intensification of a single image that unifies each play.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 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
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 George Francis Train
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