| My unusual muteness must have made him wonder if I was having second thoughts. |
| This muteness increases the sense of proliferation in his art. |
| This muteness is unsettling, somehow pregnant with infinite meaning and utterly devoid of any at all. |
| Because we are all Canadians, and therefore painfully polite, he mistakes our bemused muteness for rapt attention. |
| He had tried to advance in this way, but had not succeeded, and so he had retreated into the muteness they expected, and perhaps preferred. |
| Plunged in their discussions, the others were a long while in remarking his muteness. |
