Both Uses of
suggestive
in
Moby Dick
- With the same marvellous patience, and with the same single shark's tooth, of his one poor jack-knife, he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as the Greek savage, Achilles's shield; and full of barbaric spirit and suggestiveness, as the prints of that fine old Dutch savage, Albert Durer.†
Chpt 55-57
- What seems most singular and suggestively important in this story, is this: it was from Joppa that Jonah set sail.†
Chpt 82-84 *
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.)