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

The Marvel movies and others of their kind often produce an illusion of profundity, a slick, murky overlay of allegorical suggestiveness.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 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

Real character in photography comes from a precise, rich engagement with the suggestiveness of the physical world.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2016

The tender amethyst sky, arching over this hideous spot, alone saved it, to-day, from the last sort of infernal suggestiveness.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar