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  • The teasing, hinting suggestivity drawing the reader in through layers of fanciful imagining only to smack them in the face with reality.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • The teasing, hinting suggestivity drawing the reader in through layers of fanciful imagining only to smack them in the face with reality.

    Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One" Hal Duncan 2008

  • I was successful, Kertesz said, in rendering the object with the powerful suggestivity of shadow, light and line in the most direct and rich way possible.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • I was successful, Kertesz said, in rendering the object with the powerful suggestivity of shadow, light and line in the most direct and rich way possible.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • They had a curious game with each other, Gudrun and Loerke, of infinite suggestivity, strange and leering, as if they had some esoteric understanding of life, that they alone were initiated into the fearful central secrets, that the world dared not know.

    Women in Love 1907

  • The whole game was one of subtle inter-suggestivity, and they wanted to keep it on the plane of suggestion.

    Women in Love 1907

  • Their whole correspondence was in a strange, barely comprehensible suggestivity, they kindled themselves at the subtle lust of the Egyptians or the

    Women in Love 1907

  • Then they rose again to the same remorseless suggestivity.

    Women in Love 1907

  • The sardonic suggestivity that flickered over his face and looked from his narrowed eyes, made her want to hide, to hide herself away from him and watch him from somewhere unseen.

    Women in Love 1907

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