Both Uses of
suggestive
in
Heart of Darkness
- Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild—and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.†
Chpt 1 *
- They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(suggestive) tending to bring to mind
(When the thing brought to mind is not clear from context, it is often sex.)