She sat upon the ground absorbed in wordless despair, when through the gusty wind and bickering rain she thought she heard her name called.    From Wordnik.com.  [II.8] Reference

I've never been really clear on the "wordless" rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talk To The Foot] Reference

It was just the kind of wordless symbolism in which McQueen used to specialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander McQueen: family and fashion royalty pay tributes at St Paul's] Reference

One of the "wordless" suggestions is Tomie dePaola's wonderful Pancakes for Breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelfari:] Reference

We traded the weights back and forth — it was a kind of wordless morning prayer for us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hotel New Hampshire]

The label "wordless" seems to mean something different when applied to children's picture books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Chicken and Cat got labeled as "wordless" because it doesn't have words where most picture books do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

She uses very few words (though Robot Dreams isn't truly a "wordless" book, as I discussed back here).    From Wordnik.com.  [Robot Nightmares] Reference

McNair pressed her hand in wordless misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aleta Dey] Reference

And I love the idea of wordless Wednesday!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wordless Wednesday - Buddy's Homework] Reference

Old Nancy flung him a glance of wordless contempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

Over and over, the same wordless scene gets shot and reshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [3D Boot Camp: A New Dimension For Live-Action Film] Reference

Matak, gloomy and wordless, relieved the Major of his bag at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

Lucy's face contracts into a wordless, squint-eyed, open-mouthed grimace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desilu, Three Cameras] Reference

She breathed a prayer from the depths of her soul -- a wordless invocation.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

His Butterfly benefits from a wordless 14-minute transition from dusk to dawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weller: Madame Butterfly: A Journey] Reference

These identical accents are found in even the wordless vowel refrains of native.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

Then he lifted it into the air with a wordless shout, filled his lungs and laughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

We were about to give it up in despair, when I started forward with a wordless cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

These sprinters are verbalizing events that took place in wordless flashes of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Acts In 10 Seconds] Reference

He would turn, then, to his father and the two would exchange a look, explicit but wordless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hole Between Them] Reference

A lot of it wordless except at certain moments (mostly navigational, regarding physical geography).    From Wordnik.com.  [The several stages of grief] Reference

"KING ARTHUR" Paata Tsikurishvili directs Synetic Theater's wordless play about the legendary king.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Out Guide for Alexandria and Arlington, Va., Sept. 23-29] Reference

I believe that wordless novels present a fresh and unique way to understand and interpret a narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sammy Perlmutter: An Innovation Even Bigger Than eBooks] Reference

He'd reasoned the cause for doing it that way, in a wordless understanding of what magic is, what it's not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet another, as Icarus, waxless and featherless, falls] Reference

 Pressure exerted by a hand results in a magnificent little wrinkle that makes you whisper something wordless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Pajamas] Reference

"King Arthur" Paata Tsikurishvili directs Synetic Theater's latest wordless play, this one about the legendary king.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall preview of theater openings] Reference

“But not too huge”, she added a little later once they'd found a mutually convenient position for their wordless play.    From Wordnik.com.  [and His Penis] Reference

Hancock's tune, "Cantelope Island," is featured on "Pieta," and Nascimento performs it with his signature wordless vocals.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Pieta': Milton Nascimento's Homage to Women] Reference

As a result, when a child reads a wordless book, she inherently learns how to be a critic, not just a passive observer, of a text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sammy Perlmutter: An Innovation Even Bigger Than eBooks] Reference

And you get the scenes in just wordless, wonderful, wonderful pictures of everything that happens when he says goodbye to his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carry-On Books To Take You Up, Up And Away] Reference

Unlike many jazz singers, Ms. Lincoln indulged in little improvisation or scatting, the singing of wordless syllables in rapid sequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazz singer, actress Abbey Lincoln dies at 80] Reference

Another story in the book, written and drawn by Jim Stanton, is nearly wordless and illustrated with '90s-style computer-rendered images.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amazing Adventures] Reference