wordlessness

The very wordlessness of the opening draws us in: What is this, we wonder, and what will happen next?

In fact, many artists overcome a particular reticence or general wordlessness, and they obviously enjoy having their say.

Theirs had always been an inarticulate love, but perhaps, Simon believed, the deeper for its very wordlessness.

Through this wordlessness, commentators have written, scat singing can describe matters beyond words.

And when my prayers tripped over their own anxiety and dissolved into wordlessness, I talked.

Valentine had concluded that it worked so well for Plikt because her wordlessness was not complete noncommunication.

But in Jim, at least, the wordlessness was being matched by a definite feeling of unhappy realization, like a sinking sensation.

She looked at him in unflinching wordlessness for a long time through her tears while he looked back stolidly.

And it was the wordlessness of her acquiescence that brought the sudden realization that she had come with him too easily.

And wordlessness suits this particular story perfectly, reflecting the muted, muffled quality that rain brings to a day.

The thought-the surety-shocked her into still wordlessness.

He was surprised that she was so quiet - brought to wordlessness, it seemed, by the enormousness of what was being offered.

He was paradoxically eloquent and effusive about wordlessness, making it a haunting symbol of any artist's isolation.

Nameless put it into wordlessness.

Considering that she's a songwriter, Ely Guerra gives a lot of thought to silence and wordlessness.

It has been argued that the wordlessness provides the strip with a sense of timelessness, setting up Arzach's journey as a quest for eternal, universal truths.

In his wordlessness she was free to search his heartfire without distraction, and now that she was aware, she could search for the missing part.

Neither did I. After last night's astounding alliance I seemed to want to pull back into wordlessness, unthinkingness, a kind of automaton consciousness.

In this case, we deal with a lexicon of wordlessness, which seems to be an oxymoron; however, it is apt to treat the art of dance as silent speech.

The crew as a whole were as silent as the department heads; and Scotty had spent the past hours in a wincing wordlessness that never looked far from tears.

Told through a sequence of beautifully rendered illustrations by Mr. Rohmann, "Time Flies" is an entirely absorbing narrative made all the richer by its wordlessness.

Her vocal style is influenced by Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, which drifts from lyrics to wordlessness without ever losing touch with the melody and rhythm.

Wright's brief utterances, with their asyntactic bits and trailings-off, suggest a respect for silence akin to a spiritual discipline, as if human speech measured poorly against a divine wordlessness.

The near wordlessness of Blaine and Aphra, of the man in the hospital bed, leaves Adie hungry for meaning, but he won't find it until he turns to literature.

The admirals and the captains departed, passing Porter Langenfeld one by one with a very unusual wordlessness and without handshakes, yet each man tapped the boss on the shoulder.