| 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. |
| Memory of past and foresight of future convert dumbness to some degree of articulateness. |
| Here discourse is always already reduced to silence, the dumbness of a chirp, the murmur of a coo. |
| This is not dumbness, or denseness, or illiteracy, but belligerent unenlightenment. |
| At Oxford Circus they got out, and left me pondering on deafness and dumbness. |
| If it were solely a matter of the site blooper, then the error might be put down to dumbness and naivety. |
