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• s  expressed without speech
  choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe

• He had just two moments to himself in the songwriting sun: the echo-heavy ballad Us and Them and the wordless The Great Gig in the Sky from Pink Floyd's sad epic Dark Side of the .
• Further on appears the wordless examination of man's attempts at ordering nature, "ctrl," by Richard McGuire, an artist who virtually disappeared after creating "Here," a singular .
• For decades Spain's athletes have stood awkwardly on awards podiums, forced to hum their wordless anthem while winners from elsewhere sang their paeans to national glory.

• mute
• tongueless
• unspoken

News & Articles

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• Mystery sign: Painting is part of La Quilt Trail
  A colorful, wordless sign popped up without explanation in a triangle of public property in Bogalusa, perplexing residents and travelers alike. Passersby wondered who put it up, why it was there and what its purpose might be.
  June 15, 2013 - Erie Times-News

Quotes

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• James Turrell in Art Daily
  My work is about space and the light that inhabits it,said Turrell. "It is about how you confront that space and plumb it. It is about your seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire."
• John Updike in New York Times
  Rooted in the past, Mr. Updike wrote, the novel "cannot but envy this constant present that does not tell but simply is, dancing and slicing through space ...... a wordless vocabulary that engulfs us like an environment."
• David Pountney in Jerusalem Post
  The Cunning Little Vixen is "a masterly amalgam of operatic dialogue, songs, chorus, wordless singing, ballet, mime, orchestral interlude," Pountney wrote in The Royal Opera program book back in 2003 when describing the work.