| This muteness is unsettling, somehow pregnant with infinite meaning and utterly devoid of any at all. |
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| Because we are all Canadians, and therefore painfully polite, he mistakes our bemused muteness for rapt attention. |
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| My unusual muteness must have made him wonder if I was having second thoughts. |
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| Ursula, I had learned, was not quiet and silent because of her muteness. |
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| Pardon, I am traveling with a girl that had been cursed by muteness. |
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| This muteness is even more pronounced when it comes to an individual making suggestions to the partner. |
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| Her muteness in this scene is oddly detached: she studies it all with consternation, but also with interest. |
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| He had suddenly developed selective muteness in school for days or even a whole week at a time on five different documented occasions since the previous October. |
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| He had tried to advance in this way, but had not succeeded, and so he had retreated into the muteness they expected, and perhaps preferred. |
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| This muteness increases the sense of proliferation in his art. |
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| Doses exceeding 10 mg in people who have not developed tolerance to this drug can cause delirium, muscle rigidity, muteness, severe sedation, and stupor. |
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| As a rule Lady Anne's displeasure became articulate and markedly voluble after four minutes of introductory muteness. |
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| For example, conversion disorders such as paralyses of limbs or muteness were commoner than now. |
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| Mr Desplat, in fact, is rather drawn to muteness. |
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| Over the course of centuries humanity has sought Me in this way, and they have become accustomed to the muteness of the images and forms before which they pray and offer rites. |
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| I have often referred to the fact that all of us felt deeply affected by the events of 1989, especially those of us who had had direct experience of the muteness and oppression of the Soviet bloc. |
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| It knows that participating in politics is a way of gaining a voice from the muteness of being uprooted in one society and transplanted in another. |
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| I wanted the muteness to become a stream of words. |
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| To break out of our muteness, to break out of our silence, to talk of our shared needs to communicate, since we have spent lifetimes in the barely inhabited dream of the western hemisphere. |
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| Where witnesses were initially forced to be silent by the government in power, once liberated from their enforced muteness after 1989 they came up against the deliberate deafness of the Georgians. |
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| If Prévert retrieved his childhood emotions, Anne de la Salle has been working in a very acute way on all that may have erected fences or established muteness in a woman's childhood or adolescence. |
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| But you cannot stop at this moment of muteness, unless you develop a theory of the unspeakability which I would describe as metaphysical laziness. |
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