How To Use Suggestive In A Sentence

The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
Modestly clad women appear as newsreaders on TV, while sexually suggestive Hindi film posters adorn shopfronts about town.
There is also the highly suggestive definitation of cartomancy - literally from the French carte card + mancie -mancy: fortune-telling by the use of playing cards. Archive 2008-02-01
The mind instantly converts an innocent remark into a cacophony of suggestive possibilities.
Both caseation and calcification are highly suggestive of a tubercular etiology, neither being common in malignancy related lymphadenopathy.

Some parts of Australia have traditions of huge reptiles suggestive of long-necked sauropods, the dinosaur group which includes Diplodocus and Apatosaurus.
The basal ganglia of the brain are peculiarly rich in acetylcholine, the presence of which must presumably have some significance; and suggestive effects of eserine and of acetylcholine, injected into the ventricles of the brain, have been described. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
Very light straw color, green-apple nose, with a citrusy vibrancy on the palate leading to a slatey, minerally note suggestive of a great Mosel. Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure?
A balance of storming multilinear playing suggestive of Keith Jarrett, romantic ballads and fluent improvisation, it's another acceleration in a fast-lane career that shifted from gifted student status to rising star almost overnight. This week's new live music
Your symptoms are more suggestive of an air pressure issue inside your middle ear cavity. The Sun
It contained both vignette and epic, each form suggestive of the other. Times, Sunday Times
Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive. The Shadow of the Torturer
Autosuggestive techniques can help in the treatment of diseases which cannot be cured by conventional medicine.
Supine and upright abdominal radiographs with stepladder pattern of air-fluid levels and no colonic gas are suggestive of obstruction.
These canonical connections are often suggestive but may be mistaken for literary or theological leveling unless the reader is made aware of the different redemptive historical settings of the pericopes involved.
Another suggestive piece of evidence is comparison with dogs that remain on the other side of the long vanished Asia-North America land connection.
suggestive and adumbrative manner" -- not, indeed, he acknowledges, a romantic manner, and yet "quite distinct from the classical"; i.e., because of the transcendental character of a portion of his poetry. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
B. G.) which graced the board with its plastic forms, suggestive of the most pleasing objects, -- the spiral ringlets pendent from the brow of beauty, -- the magic circlet, which is the pledge of plighted affection, -- the indissoluble knot, which typifies the union of hearts, which organs were also largely represented; this exceptional delicacy would at any other time have claimed his special notice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
It is suggestive how the Armorican tradition seems to manifest itself, either directly or indirectly, in nearly all the "Lives" of the Saint which are considered the best; in St. Fiacc's, in the annotations of the Scholiast, in the "Tripartite Life," in the Fourth "Life," and in the Fifth by Probus. Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town
Mark Liberman of Language Log has a very suggestive entry about the disfluency of the Wolof elite, as described in Judith Irvine's "Wolof Noun Classification: The Social Setting of Divergent Change" (Language in Society, 7: 37-64 (1978)), at least as he remembers it:...upwardly mobile men among the Wolof nobility cultivate inarticulateness as a sign of status. Languagehat.com: ON NOT SPEAKING WELL.
Both nonspecialists and specialists in Tillich's theology will find here ideas suggestive for contemporary teaching and preaching.
As already indicated, the intense emotionalism about the liberal moment was suggestive of novelty - the appearance of a new dawn.
There was a man standing near the bar smirking at me in a suggestive way. The Sun
For this is the form that every tabulation of family pedigree must assume; and therefore the mere fact that a scientific tabulation of natural affinities was eventually found to take the form of a tree, is in itself highly suggestive of the inference that such a tabulation represents a _family_ tree. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
Here in my present picnic is the suggestive parallel, for even though no such actual episodes as those I have described had been witnessed by me, an examination of the premises beneath my bramble were a sufficient commentary. My Studio Neighbors
Far from dismissing mainstream studio pictures as lifeless products designed to narcotize the masses, he insisted that these pictures are suggestive of ‘what the people miss in their own lives.’
In their long dresses, they stand in chorus lines next to the archers, and put them off with mocking chants and suggestive songs. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, no matter how suggestive his lyrics, Kelly is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
The figure dances, like a marionette whose strings are pulled by popular music; yet the figure is also flexible, suggestive perhaps of the flexibility of style itself.
The fornices should be palpated around the cervix for nodules suggestive of endometriosis, and may also be the etiology for fixed adnexa or may result from pelvic inflammatory disease.
Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie.
The title of the poem is a near acrostic, containing the word coital (perhaps suggestive of self and other joining together).
The contours of the hand may thus be a signpost that is suggestive of mathematical ability. Times, Sunday Times
2 One of the most suggestive formulations is Elizabeth Fay's: "If William's picturesque belongs to the valley and bower, the sacred grove is where he situates the meeting of the picturesque and the beautiful with the sublime, a meeting that transmutes the feminine into the transcendent and brings the masculine sublimity of mountains home to pasture" (184). close window Notes
The video also shows Gaga dressed in a latex nuns' outfit, suggestively swallowing a set of rosary beads, and appears to include references to Madonna's famous videos for Like A Prayer and Vogue.
B. G.) which graced the board with its plastic forms, suggestive of the most pleasing objects, -- the spiral ringlets pendent from the brow of beauty; the magic circlet, which is the pledge of plighted affection, -- the indissoluble knot, which typifies the union of hearts, which organs were also largely represented; this exceptional delicacy would at any other time have claimed his special notice. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The works are suggestive of political and ideological incoherency but offer a conceptual openness depending on space, chance, and the viewers' physical and mental participations.
(as of 1860) an extension of onomatopoeia from pure echoism into a device of rhetoric, namely, "the use of naturally suggestive words, sentences, and forms for rhetorical effect. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
It smells sweet and thick, and although the fragrance is alcohol-based and has a regular sort of consistence, one can't help but expect it to be gooey and oozing suggestively out of some ancient-looking phial. Mirra & Mirra by J & E Atkinsons: Perfume Review
There are exquisite touches, executed with extraordinary skill: the allegorically suggestive tear in the curtain; the artist's helpless dishabille; the uniquely knowing expression on the face of the central woman.
The flower stalks do coil suggestively like serpents.
The men sport meticulous buzzcuts or sculpted bouffants, while the women swell suggestively beneath their modest attire.
Davis, however, looks for an English equivalent that might work in both contexts, so as not to efface their suggestive interconnection.
Possibly, if the thing became too pensive and soulful altogether, he might give it some title suggestive of the absent lover at the bull-fight -- "The Toreador's Bride" -- or something of that sort. The Coming of Bill
Michael Gove , for example could besport himself in the manner of a free marketer and if you called him he would mutter suggestively about tax cuts working into a frenzy of anti Islamic legislation. Political Adverts Should be Allowed on TV
The canker is suggestive of the character weaknesses, hurtful habits and secret sins that lurk below the surface of our respectability until exposed by extreme stress.
The records of Massachusetts Bay are full of suggestive incongruities between the ideal, single-souled life which its founders hoped to lead, and the jealousies, the opposing opinions, or the intervolved passions of individuals and of parties, which sometimes unwittingly cloaked themselves in religious tenets. A Study Of Hawthorne
Electrolyte levels should be monitored, and patients should report any signs or symptoms suggestive of electrolyte imbalance.
Unexplained injuries to protected parts of the body such as the buttocks, thighs, torso, frenulum, ears and neck are suggestive of child abuse.
The bodily rooted nature of all moodedness, i.e. of all affectedness by the world, implies also that the union of souls in love or friendship can be described suggestively in a poetic language as 'one soul in two bodies' or 'two hearts beating as one'. Archive 2008-02-01
He smiled, his familiar smile of self-mockery, but to Joanna, it was unexpectedly suggestive of sadness. HERE BE DRAGONS
The alternate names chosen for the three characters are suggestive of the values depicted by the original roles in tune with Ramayana.
Emily turned and threw her a suggestive grin.
Diagnostic genetic testing refers to the use of a gene test in a patient who has symptoms suggestive of Huntington's disease, with or without a family history.
The geometric shapes and patterns rendered in pencil, ink and watercolor on graph paper are suggestive of spiritual emblems taken from a variety of religions.
Circulus, their debut album's weirdly suggestive title aside, are the kind of band who will sing about transferring actual power to actual pixies.
The precise yet endlessly suggestive works that result from his unrivalled draughtsmanship are just as compelling as his paintings.
A Seal of Prince JOHN OF GHENT, which has two falcons and padlocks, is one of the most beautiful and suggestive works of its class: in this Seal the two birds are addorsed, and consequently they also have their backs turned towards the central achievement. The Handbook to English Heraldry
Tim Eitel is the most photorealistic of the artists, working in a flat, cool manner suggestive of fashion advertisements, and influenced, perhaps, by Alex Katz.
Hot hurricane action: water crashes furiously over the sea wall, palm trees whip back and forth in an orgiastic frenzy and street signs waggle suggestively in the wind.
Fluid collection with septae is noted in relation to lateral aspect of femur with areas of signal suppression on GRE suggestive of haemosiderin staining. Sumer's Radiology Site
Still, despite all uncertainties, it is suggestive that one ancestress apparently dwelled in an early center of agriculture and that her descendants seem to have arrived in the various regions of Europe pari passu with neolithic farming. Britain
Symptoms of depression fall into a category that my medical school mentors called "nonspecific," meaning that they are symptoms often associated with several diseases and are not specifically suggestive of a particular disease. FitnessRocks.org
Symptoms suggestive of LV failure are related primarily to pulmonary edema, and include a persistent cough and dyspnea.
This Greek form is commonly believed to be connected with monos, lonely or single, and is suggestive of a life of solitude; but we cannot lose sight of the fact that the word mone, from a different root, seems to have been freely used, e.g. by The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
He is the last gentleman, that I know of, of that old school that used to import their own wine and lay it down annually themselves, -- their bins forming a kind of vinous calendar suggestive of great events. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
She describes these rages as often provoked by strangers on the street who whistle at her or make some sexually suggestive remark.
On Saturday night, Robbie and his partner Ola were tasked with performing the cha-cha-cha, a dance of Cuban origin that apparently involves a bewildered looking man in a black rhinestone-studded hoodie standing ram-rod straight and occasionally flapping his arms about, while his partner gyrates suggestively around him in a manner not dissimilar to a naked Britt Ekland on the other side of Edward Woodward's hotel‑room wall in The Wicker Man. Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning
The experience is suggestive of walking through an inner city shopping mall before ending up in the laser-lit fug of a rave.
There is some suggestive evidence that it causes some people to have suicidal thinking and some suicidal behavior.
One could look at those primrose-tinted ladies of his, with their gossamer films of raiment and their flowerage always suggestive of the asphodel mead, for hours: and if one's soul had had a substantial A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
The summerhouse was a quaint stockade of dark madrono boughs thatched with red-wood bark, strongly suggestive of deeper woodland shadow. Maruja
In May, he published the two-volume, 1,055-page novel "1Q84," a title suggestive of George Orwell's "1984" as the Japanese word for 9 is pronounced the same as the English letter Reuters: Top News
After discharge, patients recorded and transmitted their rhythm by telephone daily and whenever they had symptoms suggestive of atrial fibrillation.
But Walsh believes the sheer volume of suggestive evidence makes it convincing.
Another word, * - paga, identifies such * ugali mixers in West Ruvu and Kagulu languages, though its sound correspondence is suggestive of a word transfer from a yet-unidentified source. 118 The fact that a proto-Ruvu-era word for such distinct mixers cannot be reconstructed may reflect refinement in food preparation specific to porridges and the ways they are made that developed in recent historical periods. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
Towards the end of the match she bought me a drink and kept making suggestive comments. The Sun
None of the 5 patients had antecedent symptomatology suggestive of myocarditis.
The death of three national patriarchs within such a short time has always been a suggestive theme.
O'Keefe was arrested while trying to implement one of his schemes inside the office of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, and when his attempt to "embarrass" a CNN reporter with a sexually suggestive scenario was exposed, Breitbart tried to distance himself. Why ABC's Breitbart invite is a big deal
Though suggestive of mystic, pagan rites of purification and primitivism, the film, like all true surrealism, outrageously defies attempts at pigeonholing analysis and close reading.
Though none of these experts agreed openly with Horkheimer's assertion that Monty's excessive masculinity indicated repressed homosexuality, their obsession with "virility" is very suggestive. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
His conceptions are usually calm and undramatic, and he has painted scarcely any scenes (having depicted religious ones almost exclusively) that are not suggestive of "sante conversazioni". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Right loath was the swart barbarian to let me have them, but hunger, hunger is a great tamer of your savage; and the steam of good Furbo’s cook-shop yonder was suggestive of savory chops and greasy sausages — and — and — in short, Aurelius, I got them at The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)
Her photographs are staged and suggestive of narrative and literature, focusing mainly on female characters.
He does things like staple my work trousers to my underwear and makes suggestive comments to me. The Sun
We talked of many things, fashion, religion, politics, all the while she tried to tempt me with new and suggestive maneuvers.
The glass structure that enclosed them had a crenellated top suggestive of historic armories.
The majority of patients have symptoms suggestive of an infection of the upper respiratory tract at the onset of the episodes.
Thus, the external, extrinsic sociological fact or system of realities finds itself inscribed within the internal instrinsic experience of the film in what Sartre in a suggestive and too-little known concept in his Psychology of Imagination calls the analogon: 5 that structural nexus in our reading or view - ing experience, in our operations of decoding or aesthetic reception, which can then do double duty and stand as the substitute and the representative within the aesthetic object of a phenomenon on the outside which cannot in the very nature of things be Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Moreover, significant correlations were found only in the two experiments that had results suggestive of true precognition.
Auntie (a strong Anne Collins) and her nieces (Ailish Tynan and Helen Williams) injected rather too much ribaldry and suggestiveness into the proceedings; surely this community is rather buttoned up and not so free?
The mysterious layers of ash in deep sea cores are suggestive of deliberate firing of the vegetation on the Australian mainland up to 150,000 years ago.
Every once in a while it is refreshing to put aside detailed academic monographs in favor of shorter studies that are full of suggestive concepts and ideas.
The fragmented pieces of captured text are projected onto a blank white wall to create subtly shifting images suggestive of bygone worlds.
The wandering soul has countless names, many of them suggestive of sloth and indolence.
If a certain American countess had not patronized her; if certain lorgnettes (implements of torture used by said son of Satan) had not been leveled in her direction; if certain fans had not been suggestively spread between pairs of feminine heads, -- Nora would have been as harmless as a playful kitten. The Place of Honeymoons
Both Dr Lee and Dr Moore-Gillon agreed that the flow volume loops produced in the MAP LFTs showed some concavity, which was suggestive of airflow obstruction.
Pus in the olfactory sulcus, on the upper surface of the middle turbinal posteriorly, and on the vault of the naso-pharynx, is suggestive of sphenoidal suppuration. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Once there, he examined the girl's hand and found evidence suggestive of a nondisplaced fourth metacarpal fracture, with no neurovascular compromise.
The flora is suggestive in places of old oak woodland with goldilocks, buttercup, moschatel, bugle and wood sedge.
It was Mr Mahmood Farooqui who made suggestive (I would hold back the word 'insinuative' for now) comments about the enormous richness of Urdu belittling (read his texts carefully and you would realize what he is trying to do) Punjabi. Kafila
If you develop symptoms suggestive of ciguatera, you should seek medical care and advocate for yourself by suggesting ciguatoxin ingestion as a possible cause of your symptoms. The Times-Reporter Home RSS
The heads were faintly suggestive of elephants ', round, with beady eyes, large erect ears that doubled as cooling surfaces, a short trunk that was a chemosensor and a floodtime snorkel, small down-curving tusks on the males. A Circus of Hells
However, this is suggestive in that it appears very few programs require writing courses be taken in order to receive the degree.
But hard evidence for this human contribution simply does not exist; the evidence we have is suggestive at best.
The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland differentiates between nudity and suggestive sexual imagery.
She made her way to a platform in the middle of the court and gyrated suggestively in front of a wind machine.
That was last October," he answered with a sing-song weariness suggestive of impatience at such supererogative explanations. Never-Fail Blake
I could not be absolutely certain of her identity until her hull should heave up clear of the horizon, but that jaunty steeve of bowsprit and the hoist and spread of those topsails were all very strongly suggestive of the A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
According to the Herald Sun, the bureau looked at the case and found, that whilst the act depicted could be consensual, the overall impact and most likely takeout is that the scene is suggestive of violence and rape .... Calvin Klein Billboard BANNED For Being 'Suggestive Of Violence And Rape' (PHOTOS, VIDEO, POLL)
The palatial swagger of Vanbrugh's Castle Howard is suggestive of its patron's pride in the lineage of the Howard family and its place in history.
the chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives
Their account is not exhaustive, but suggestive of a wide field for future endeavour. The Times Literary Supplement
Firedrake: Brooding atmosphere stoic figure still upon a throne implacable and imovable but wringing with a potential for violence (see chain sword!) ... suggestive of inhuman power ebon skin and glowing eyes, but, a hint of humanity remains. Book Cover Smackdown! 'Zoo City' vs. 'Plague Year' (Czech) vs. Firedrake
And yet, there is a suggestive promise that the conceit, if rightly understood, offers something more, perhaps something less bleak.
Outside the bright sterility of the commissary was a corridor suggestive of hushed voices and stiff formality. A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air
The lyrics are unostentatious and the imagery is stark - the personal opens up into the universal thanks to Bickford's suggestive, elliptical couplets.
The parallels between the schools of reflexive anti-Americanism and big-business globalism are far from exact, but they are multiple and they are suggestive.
In their long dresses, they stand in chorus lines next to the archers, and put them off with mocking chants and suggestive songs. Times, Sunday Times
The nebuly partition line is suggestive of clouds and sky.
Although a mystery may be insoluble, it is not senseless; and while its inexpressibility makes it inaccessible to communicable knowledge, it can still be spoken of in a suggestive way (Marcel 1964, xxv). Gabriel (-HonorÃ©) Marcel
Through Lowson's kitchen window we see an anatomically suggestive, sexually charged landscape, and so it is with many of these poems.
I have escaped, and with the help of your suggestively named, buxom employee, I shall stop you from nuking the U.S. gold supply!
Powers sifts psychological and historical evidence in a suggestive but inconclusive search for convincing connections.
However, the increased abundance of monazite in Zones III, IV and V relative to Zone I and its occurrence in clusters rather than as embayed grains arc suggestive of new growth.
A comment by a leading commentator on British industrial performance, David Coates, is suggestive.
One week after the second infusion, he developed a limited skin rash, fever, and mouth vesicles and ulcers, suggestive of herpesvirus infection.
Her every movement vibrates with life, from the suggestive glance of her eyes to the turn of her head.
As with his brother's songs, Nels Cline's material often contains an emotional charge, most conspicuous during introspective, acoustic numbers such as dobro / guitar duet "The Nomad's Home," "The Androgyne," and "Prayer Wheel," an older conception that may be Cline's most melodically accessible appearance, suggestive of Ralph Towner's ECM releases. Audiophile Audition Headlines
By 1836 he began studying medicine, insisting upon civil rights, and preaching professional training for African Americans rather than barbering or manual labor suggestive of servant or second-class status.
Baseline information included questions about symptoms suggestive of asthma as well as any confirmed diagnosis of the condition.
Curious!" echoed Rebecca, finding the term vague even while suggestive. Lodusky
The close association of Enkidu and Gilgamesh which becomes one of the striking features in the combination of the tales of these two heroes naturally recalls the "Heavenly Twins" _motif_, which has been so fully and so suggestively treated by Professor J. Rendell Harris in his _Cult of the Heavenly Twins_, (London, 1906). An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
Accordingly, there is suggestive evidence that intentions, and factors associated with the growth intention, may vary by gender.
While we doubt that use of the term trope has actually scared off would-be adherents of trope-theory, it cannot hurt to have an accurate, suggestive, single descriptive expression for tropes of given degrees. Tropes
No person could say that she moved in a suggestive manner, but the tiny wiggle of her hips was completely and absolutely sensual.
Our sallow skin and lean, ravenous eyes (so suggestive of scurvy) give us away.
They should know that all of us are pliable and suggestible to some degree, but that children are especially vulnerable to suggestive and leading questioning.
These cookies are sometimes shaped in bowknots or other fancy shapes, but for Christmas they are made in a shape suggestive of the swaddling clothes - or actually the diapers!
A musky smell hangs in the air-not unpleasant, but more suggestive of a mammal's lair than a bird's nest.
As part of some larger argument or larger body of evidence this might be suggestive evidence.
Quartz grains are angular, suggestive of eolian origin.
Steel cables are more typically found on boats and the hanging spheres are suggestive of the ingenious way the small spaces in cabins are kitted out.
Although promptory has not yet found its way into Webster's Third (promptuary, a poorer-sounding variant suggestive of a mortuary, has), it is a worthy and useful addition to the language; for example, good use of it was made in a recent VERBATIM book review [VII, 3, 12]. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3
A highly suggestive fact is that, as experience develops the enormous evils of the monometallic system, the number of conversions among prominent men to bimetallism steadily increases, and they become more outspoken and radical in their views. If Not Silver, What?
Not only did he anticipate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and set out a finite axiomatization of arithmetic before Peano did, and the basis axiomatic set theory before Zermelo did, but also his notation and terminology were readable and suggestive, giving future logicians a better language to work in than the clunky terms of the Germans. Pragmatic inquiry
In both cases, approximately 10% of the sample consisted of soft, gelatinous fragments highly suggestive of typical inflammatory nasal polyps.
The cause of that circulatory collapse is not entirely clear but she had symptoms both prior to the collapse and following the collapse suggestive of gastro-enteritis.
Why do they call themselves by the graceful name of "cuspidor" -- suggestive of castanets and Andalusian wiles? The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
Perhaps it is high pitched and squeaky; or, on the other hand, a "growly" bass suggestive of ill-nature. Certain Success
The Texas House of Representatives, struggling to find ways of filling their days, passed a bill that would outlaw sexually suggestive cheerleading.
Your symptoms are more suggestive of an air pressure issue inside your middle ear cavity. The Sun
In addition, two others without a histologically proven diagnosis had a pattern suggestive of a myopathic process.
The term beneficence connotes acts of mercy, kindness, and charity, and is suggestive of altruism, love, humanity, and promoting the good of others. The Principle of Beneficence in Applied Ethics
Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.
It was a huge sound, suggestive of whales calling each other.
In their long dresses, they stand in chorus lines next to the archers, and put them off with mocking chants and suggestive songs. Times, Sunday Times
As at Assisi, in Italy, there are three superimposed churches, a symbol of the three states of religion; the crypt, called the catacombs, and suggestive of persecution; the fortified nave, a symbol of the body which prays, but is not afraid to fight; and the _chapelle supérieure_, the holy place of the saints of heaven, the Christian counsellors in whose care man has been confided. The Automobilist Abroad
It contained both vignette and epic, each form suggestive of the other. Times, Sunday Times
The off ox, finding a yoke sans yokefellow dangling at its neck, is much amazed, not being "broke" to that, and takes to whirling round and round and galloping up and down the barnyard in a manner suggestive of nightmare. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
Even someone remarking in polite company about somebody who ‘had one of the longest beards I've ever seen’ is given a suggestive pause after longest, eliciting obscene cachinnations from the groundlings.
The immoral literature, the smutty postcards, the lewd plays and suggestive songs were bad, yet they were merely puffs from the foul breath of a paganized society. At Swim, Two Boys
To the victim of nosophobia this suggestive knowledge is a constant terror and an ever present nightmare. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
This intrusion or invasion into the thick impasto of the declamatory surface is peculiarly poignant and suggestive.
Every once in a while it is refreshing to put aside detailed academic monographs in favor of shorter studies that are full of suggestive concepts and ideas.
artifacts suggestive of an ancient society
Films oscillate between sensuality and vulgarity, between suggestive sexuality and indecent exposure.
Yet the approach, the core idea, remains suggestive. Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
Jacobson's recent report concerning the use of reticulocyte reactions in guinea pigs is suggestive of fruitful results. George R. Minot - Nobel Lecture
The natural images in the poem are meant to be suggestive of realities beyond themselves.
Before that, she'd appeared in a commercial as a bleached blond munching suggestively on marshmallows, and was given a tiny role shooting baskets in Jean-Luc Godard's "Je vous salue, Marie". Venturing Into the Unknown
There is also a splendid view from Cave Hill over the lough to the south shore where there are mountains more suggestive of volcanic Polynesia than Cultra and Holywood.
Is it a term suggestive of the wisdom or the ignorance of those to whom it is applied? Memorabilia
Their essays highlight the extent to which politics was in flux during this period, a point reinforced by Christophe Prochasson in his suggestive piece.
The name tulip comes from dulband, the Persian word for turban, suggestive perhaps of the flower's shape. Archive 2006-08-01
Local extension, rapid growth, invasion of adjacent structures, and CNS spread via the ventricular system or subarachnoid space are often suggestive of, but not always diagnostic of, malignancy.
Approaching the texts in a suggestive and allusive manner, they draw on their own poetic experience to elucidate the texts.
They seemed strangely modern, suggestively effective as a sculpture by Picasso; they lived in the now.
Sounds suggestive of the carrying upstairs of luggage followed, and a hinnying laugh echoed once down the stairs. For the Sake of the School
By immunofluorescence, beclin-1 staining showed faintly detectable and diffusely distributed in the cytoplasm (regarded as negative) or confined to the perinuclear region as large and brilliant puncta suggestive of macro-aggregate reactivity (regarded as positive). Naturejobs - All Jobs
It seems to me a good term, generous and open and suggestive of a willingness to cross established borders.
He draws sensitively and suggestively upon the work of Dante, Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor, mining their theological lode.
It specifies only elections and leaves the take part clause suggestive and unelaborated.
Hammers for Ambres does seem like a pretty easy shift, especially when the referent is a victorious king - Charles Martel is not parallel, but is suggestive. The Anglian Tower, York
Fantastic electron microscope images of objects looking very suggestively like fossilized living forms again captured the imagination of the world.
He delights in tracing similarities of metaphor, suggestive accidents of fate, portentous parallels, uncanny coincidences, and unexpected connections.
We talked of many things, fashion, religion, politics, all the while she tried to tempt me with new and suggestive maneuvers.
It moves in an unpredictable fashion more suggestive of an intoxicated sailor than a miracle of modern engineering.
A figure reclines leisurely on a bed of flowers by the seaside, leaning casually on his wrist, his head arched back and lips parted suggestively.
His boss can take even a hackneyed phrase and let it dangle suggestively in the air until a dozen meanings reveal themselves.
Where were the great ideas and suggestive phrases? The Times Literary Supplement
Sexually suggestive graffiti was also scrawled on the school walls.
The sopranos, too, have a way, when about to emit a roulade, that is more suggestive of a dentist’s chair, and the attendant gargle, than of a love phrase. The Ways of Men
There is also a suggestive link with "quasi-right dislocation" 3.4.1, which leads me to speculate that increased use of the person non-specific "innit" may be associated with lower levels of subject ellipsis. On me, me, me
In fact, these failures to replicate provide suggestive evidence on the conditions under which the interaction will or will not appear.
A roentgenogram of the thorax revealed a large mediastinal mass, suggestive of lymph node enlargement.
As with all terribles simplificateurs, some of his ideas are, at least, suggestive. For example, among the characteristic features of disintegrating civilisations he finds the conjoined twins of archaism and futurism.
The abundance of tectonic ironstones along the Bend-Manjeri contact is suggestive of a tectonic contact, although the contact may well have been unconformable before shearing.
As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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