muteness

Now that the clamor of humans had arrived, the muteness of the earth became more significant.

I wondered if Sadie, with her supernatural ability and muteness, may be an archetypical prophet figure, like Tiresias, the blind soothsayer from the Greek dramas.

“This great psychological fear … spread to the Senate, where a considerable amount of mental paralysis and muteness set in for fear of offending McCarthy,” she said, according to the Senate’s own account of the history.

Against this thick muteness, my ears strained to listen for something, anything.

Harpo Marx’s muteness seems to turn up Groucho and Chico’s physical volume.