| Because we are all Canadians, and therefore painfully polite, he mistakes our bemused muteness for rapt attention. |
| Her muteness in this scene is oddly detached: she studies it all with consternation, but also with interest. |
| Rhoda, with a sign, tempered him to muteness, and the three eyed one another. |
| This muteness is even more pronounced when it comes to an individual making suggestions to the partner. |
| This muteness increases the sense of proliferation in his art. |
| He had tried to advance in this way, but had not succeeded, and so he had retreated into the muteness they expected, and perhaps preferred. |
