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inarticulateness
noun as in noiselessness
noun as in quietness
noun as in silence
noun as in soundlessness
Example Sentences
But then in its second half, after the boys’ connection is sharply ruptured, the movie engages an infinitely tougher kind of silence: the fumbling inarticulateness of boys who, even if they could make sense of their emotions, would be hard-pressed to know how to talk about them.
“One of the ways we think about playfulness with form is it’s a way of dealing with the inarticulateness of experience,” Riker says, “and the point of the playfulness is that you aren’t just putting experience into the premade boxes that the literature has already put them into. ... that’s the difference between form and formula.”
This season of “The Split” is much more about indecision than inarticulateness — the characters often relish the opportunity to air harsh truths, if only they knew what they were.
And an additional 180 or so minutes of ignorant assertions mitigated only by the inarticulateness of the purveyors of them will swell the electorate’s already abundant crop of cynics, well defined as people prematurely disappointed about the future.
Bull had reached a point of inarticulateness, and he was demonstrating a maneuver by using his hands as the aircraft.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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