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  • n  the property of being speechless

  • Shoving, pushing, often pummeling its victim into speechlessness, the throng would shout at the man for a few minutes, then, its business done, make an equally frantic rush back .
  • His state is one of speechlessness, because "he does not know the words for himself and what he has done.
  • In a Sennett comedy, speechlessness raised itself to a racket, but Chaplin instinctively understood that visibility needs leisure as well as silence to work its most intimate magic.
News & Articles

  • 2014 Acura RLX Video
    When Cars.com reviewer Joe Wiesenfelder calls the 2014 Acura RLX "enigmatic," that means he's puzzled to the point of speechlessness searching for the appropriate adjectives to summarize the luxury sedan. It's sort of midsize, sort of full size; the Precision...
    June 12, 2013 - Cars.com
Quotes

  • Daniel Barenboim in New York Times
    With the orchestra, Mr. Barenboim said, he and Said wanted to "encourage conversations between Arabs and Israelis and connect people individually across the chasm of speechlessness that so often characterizes the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."
  • Alice Walker in Jewish Telegraphic Agency
    In her Tikkun essay, "Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters 'the Horror' in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel," Walker calls suicide bombings "last-ditch resistance," and says it's dishonest to engage in "blaming the...

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