Incontinence is a huge and unspoken issue.
In the years since Hosokawa described the Walkman effect, unspoken rules for using headphones in public spaces have developed and are largely respected.
There was, in effect, an unspoken agreement between the operators and smaller handset-makers to take Nokia down a peg or two.
An unspoken mantra remains in effect: When in doubt, keep killing.
In some curious way, we seem to be increasingly hungry for less enticement rather than more -- for draped limbs and blurred glimpses, the hinted at and veiled over, the chiaroscuro effect of the unspoken or unseen.
(This unspoken casting period has the accidental effect of protecting those who, living under an autocratic regime, might not want their likeness to show up in print).
The inconsistencies between John's and Helen's stated goals and their actions reflect neither hypocrisy nor unspoken reluctance to change but the paralyzing effect of competing commitments.
The effect is not one of professed lack of knowledge of events concerning Calvin and Kirsty; "dunno" appears to express uncertainty as to the outcome of the situation, although the event in question remains unspoken.
Indeed, the evidence tells us that this is Washington's unspoken default economic policy, even though its depressing effect on consumer spending would be counterproductive.
In effect, one of Crown & Caliber's unspoken promises to its consumers is that the watches they have for sale are all real.
I argued, in my second book, Speaking in Plain Sight, that a family photo album effects a silent conversation, one that constitutes an unspoken familial narrative, which adds to what's reported from sib to sib, generation to generation.
