suggestiveness

In practice, the distinction between descriptiveness and suggestiveness is vague and arbitrary: “Chicken of the Sea” for tuna; LA for low alcohol beer; Pizza Rolls for snacks — depending on where you live, these are either descriptive or suggestive terms.

IPSC, first plenary session Rebecca Tushnet 2009

In practice, the distinction between descriptiveness and suggestiveness is vague and arbitrary: “Chicken of the Sea” for tuna; LA for low alcohol beer; Pizza Rolls for snacks — depending on where you live, these are either descriptive or suggestive terms.

Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

This sexual suggestiveness is also present in Mary Robinson's seemingly demure portrait by

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

I used to wonder in those days, and still am surprised anew as again I turn over these letters, at the amount of what I might call suggestiveness in Wyman.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

One is conscious throughout of a careful anxiety that every avenue to "suggestiveness" shall be just hinted and at once decently veiled.

Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899

The pictures form of themselves a story, and while sufficiently literal to be easily read, they at the same time possess that quality of suggestiveness which is only associated with work of a creative order.

Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

So I would term the dear delights of sexual converse and that sub-erotic literature, the phthisical "French novel," whose sole merit is "suggestiveness," taking the place of Oriental morosa voluptas and of the unnatural practices -- Tribadism and so forth, still rare, we believe, in England.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Kafila on the random accusation of "suggestiveness" by various censors in India.

Kafila 2009

Kafila on the random accusation of "suggestiveness" by various censors in India.

Kafila Salil 2008

Hwa draws some nice parallels between mother and daughter here, especially in a sequence where Ehwa coquettishly mixes her shoes with the young monk's without fully realizing the suggestiveness of her actions.

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