suggestiveness
- a word derived from suggestive.
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
Onscreen, “On Chesil Beach” loses some intensity at the end, as the supple suggestiveness of Mr. McEwan’s prose is replaced by the stagy literalness of film.
From New York Times ● May 16, 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
Without style there was no suggestiveness, and with no suggestiveness, no metaphor.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2010
In this power of suggestiveness lies music’s greater range of spiritual force even when the feeling expressed is not of the deepest.
From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald
