Each student exhibited their personal degree of fear, nervousness, and skepticism, and some were petrified to the point of speechlessness.
For silent film, muteness, then, is a formative force, and in this sense it approaches the conditions of opera, a vocal medium constandy impelled towards moments of speechlessness.
It almost reduces me to speechlessness with indignation.
In manga, the ellipsis by itself represents speechlessness, or a pregnant pause.
His incapability of providing for his family, coupled with his speechlessness, reduces his thought process greatly.
And they are exemplary because, in face of such inevitable speechlessness, they remind us of the need to speak out in protest, the protests of the dead and the living.
