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. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

This sexual suggestiveness is also present in Mary Robinson's seemingly demure portrait by ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Various (N/A)

One is conscious throughout of a careful anxiety that every avenue to "suggestiveness" shall be just hinted and at once decently veiled. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Kafila on the random accusation of "suggestiveness" by various censors in India. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And while Fleming's Bond never acknowledged the absurd suggestiveness of names in the female supporting cast—Honey Rider, Pussy Galore—Mr. Deaver fears that the unsubtle will be lost on the unsophisticated. ❋ Michael C. Moynihan (2011)

Is all this suggestiveness a form of stolen valor? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Adam's Mega Rave: Despite all my colleagues' mocking — and the typically unsubtle sexual suggestiveness of the first Head of Household competition — I'm genuinely giddy about having Big Brother back in my life. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ernst Lubitsch was a master at sexual innuendo, and since this movie was released two years before the Hays Code went into strict enforcement, there is a ton of clever suggestiveness in the sparkling script. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Shy of the robustness and stronger saturations of oil paints, La Tour's pastels, and surely the Norton Simon self-portrait, favor an elusive suggestiveness. ❋ James Gardner (2011)

The accompanying photographs, by Richard Baker, are haunting in their suggestiveness. ❋ Sammy Perlmutter (2010)

The name's youthfully innocent association with sport would be transformed to a distinctly mature suggestiveness when it was affixed to her Facebook images later on, none of them helpful to her when reporters went digging into her past. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2011)

The thing was a hot little orgy of suggestiveness, one that the Daily Mail and its Sunday sister developed into something much more explicit over the weekend. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I have a [suggestment]. Maybe you should [do something] [with that] hair." ❋ Sherbombs (2011)

"Look at my new [TV]" "Wow, thats [huge]!" "[That's suggestive]" ❋ Tod222 (2012)

1a Hey Bob, If i can make a "Suggestion" regarding your report that you turned in..if you could format it... blah blah blah 1b If I can make a quick suggestion to you...Your breath smells like shit...you should go brush your teeth. [1c] Dude, if i can make a suggestion about your playlist...you should add some more [zepplin], cuz everybody loves zepplin. 2a Well Girl, my suggestion is you [dump his ass], and get yo self a real man. 2b I'd fuck her if i was you, but that's just my suggestion..you do what you want to do ❋ Dr. Nasty - Www.krushradio.com (2005)

"Does [anyone] have any suggestments?", Said [Mr]. Molino from [ISM]. ❋ Frank Rizzo (2004)

Hym "Don't you just hate that? When someone gives you a 'suggestion' like 'why don't you get a better job?' OH REALLY!? I never would have thought of that! You must be some kind of mainstream intellectual! Well, apparently I CAN'T get a better job because I'm (somehow) too stupid to even THINK of getting a better job! No, but that's a really good idea though. I wish [my dumb] brain wasn't so fucking stupid so I could think of good ideas like you; you dumb motherfucker. Holy shit! [The nerve] of these [fucking people]! Jesus! Maybe it isn't 'Liars Hell.' Maybe it's genius hell. My fate is to be surrounded by idiots for all of eternity." ❋ Hym Iam (2022)

Girl: [What do] [you do] instead of [wanking]? Guy: I take suggestives. ❋ Blah9257289 (2008)

[Geneva Convention]? [More like] Geneva Suggestion! ❋ SerbianSlav (2021)

Ronnie: I went to search how to change a light bulb... six hours later I was looking at how to change a light [ballast] Pauly: Wtf is a light ballast??? Ronnie: I dunno but I still don't know how to change the light bulb in my [tanning bed] Mike: Oh no, we have a situation! Snooki: Waaaaahhhh Vinny: Looks like you were [suggestion surfing]...... ❋ Gingyman (2010)

Person 1: Yo, I think they should add [throwable] bricks in Minecraft. Person 2: That's a great idea! You should [make a post] about it in the Minecraft Suggestions [subreddit]. ❋ The Mysterious MCS Guy (2021)

Mom: Will you wake up already, you're [late for school]! Me: (half sleeping) I'm too tired to go to school. Mom: You always say that! But you're not skipping school this time! Get your butt out of bed now! Me: That is so inappropriate, mom Mom: Excuse me? Me: Here, look at this [response suggestion] from UD, you're supposed to say: "Oh, sweetheart, are you so tired? Better skip school today, you don't want to get more tired!" [Response suggestion] Mom: [Ah, I see], my bad, please stay home, you don't want to get even more tired! ❋ Not Simeon (2023)