more telling

Throughout “Martha,” Stewart colors her words with effervescent agreeability, only to betray flashes of discomfort when the silence stretches beyond a second or two that are much more telling.

Martin must now reflect on the more telling statistic that Southampton are bottom of the Premier League with one point from eight games, conceding 18 goals, second only to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

What happened next is, in many ways, even more telling.

Research on Americans’ concerns about political violence may be more telling.

Then she came across a more telling detail.