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On I Am Sold, a two-note digidub bassline becomes the engine for the track, like a half-memory of Jamaica, while a wordless vocal note at Retrograde's climax turns imperceptibly into a wailing dub siren.
Inside will be wordless , choreographed performances by three older men and three young boys.
All you need to do – my perfect, wordless friend – is be thankful you don't have to be there.
It broke the ice with the children, transmitting a wordless but powerful message of hope.
Now designers have begun to respond overtly to demands for modelling collaboration: Journey (2012) is a wordless , ethereal game in which players, by interacting, produce mutual benefit and emotional connection but do not explicitly trade.
The BBC's new docu-drama series, Armada, opened last night with visual reenactments of all the hoary tropes of Elizabethan storytelling: a beleaguered isle, led by a vacillating queen; plucky English sailors knocking together a flotilla from the few planks of driftwood and some Vaseline; wordless , faceless Spaniards, bearing down with dark crucifixes upon their captives as instruments of torture.
It was the 19th century which dreamt up Christmas as a holiday to embody our ideals of what childhood should be, but it finds its 20th-century apotheosis here, in this beautiful, wordless and entirely unsentimental picture book.
In the mid-90s, Bogotá's then-mayor, Antanas Mockus, employed more than 400 mime artists to stand guard at pedestrian crossings, showing wordless displeasure to reckless pedestrians and drivers who violated traffic rules and put lives at risk.
On stage he continued to have a wordless , entranced conversation only with his guitar.A swift fortune, more than 80 albums and 93m record sales made him no less wild and instinctive.
Also covered is the self-imposed silence of Christian ascetics in search of wordless truth, and the rules of silence that were imposed on Christian monks, not all of whom wanted to be great mystics.Then there is the self-interested silence of organised Christianity about aspects of its own history.
But that would still leave the national anthem wordless.
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The primary grammatical function of "wordless" is as an adjective . It modifies nouns to indicate the absence of words or the inability to speak. Ludwig provides examples where "wordless" describes things like "performances", "songs", and "communication".
Expression frequency: Very common
