Sentence examples for of a mute from inspiring English sources

"Shubha," for instance, is the story of a mute girl whose handicap is a quite explicit metaphor for the voicelessness of Indian women.

You could defend this as an update on the dog tattoo, inscribed on Harpo's torso, that suddenly barks at Groucho in "Duck Soup," but that was a wild visual pun — listen to the flesh of a mute!

Cave's first novel, 1989's And the Ass Saw the Angel, was a baroque tale of a mute boy raised in a town of religious fanatics, who visits grim revenge upon his oppressors.

At first, the story of a mute swan who learns to communicate by reading, writing and playing the trumpet seems to want to be a hip, jazz-wise allegory.

If it's Gallic nostalgia you're after, better to go with Attila Marcel (Metrodome, 12a), Sylvain Chomet's fable of a mute, emotionally stunted man unpicking his own unhappy family history.

"Most of my plays have been inspired by a single, vivid idea," he says, recalling that his 1999 play Cooking With Elvis "began with the image of a mute Elvis impersonator in a wheelchair.

The poem is based on his memory, from the age of 6, of watching a mute boy praying at the center.

Tomlin is in the building to see her nutritionist and sings the praises, to a mute Midler, of an all-legume diet.

Similarly, a non-linguistic experience of a mute-person is an awareness because of the presence of verbal disposition or speech-seed even though there is no actualization of speech.

It's followed by more of Jesus' miracles -- the resurrection of a dead girl and the healing of both a mute man and a man who could not hear.

Instead of being a mute, London should be a candid friend to the US about the dangers of Bush's enthusiasm for the colossal expense of National Missile Defence.