| Here discourse is always already reduced to silence, the dumbness of a chirp, the murmur of a coo. |
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| If it were solely a matter of the site blooper, then the error might be put down to dumbness and naivety. |
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| Her ears twisted round to the sound of scraping at the door, her eyes now fully awake narrowed as she remembered the dumbness of dogs. |
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| So in our dumbness we consumers prefer the inherently unfair multi-line system because we haven't trained our brains to appreciate the merits of single lines. |
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| This is not dumbness, or denseness, or illiteracy, but belligerent unenlightenment. |
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| As a missionary, it was enough for him to go up into pulpit to be struck with dumbness. |
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| But, right after this ultimate proof of animal dumbness, the victim started talking its head off, spewing words in an unstoppable flow. |
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| Aside from the intrinsic dumbness of the bill itself, there is also the outrageous process by which it was reported out of the conference committee. |
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| There is no distinction in India between deafness and deaf and dumbness and, because Ian can speak, they have trouble believing that he cannot hear. |
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| Ear research is in an advanced stage, and dumbness also could be cured. |
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| In front of the quasi total dumbness observed by the Egyptian press the following days, the blogueurs decide to broadcast the facts, confirmed in addition by a famous actress, Ola Ghanem, witness of violences. |
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| He professed to admire the student who defended his low college grades by telling his father he was just dumb, and so-called dumbness took on a moral quality for Vonnegut, to be equated with sincerity and decent ordinariness. |
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| Something similar applies to the doornail dumbness of robots. |
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| In particular, the dumbness would appear to be aggravated by stress. |
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| He was a deaf-mute. His dumbness did not seem to matter when we were boys. |
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