Wordlessly in a sentence as an adverb

My pet wolf would nod gravely, and we would stalk wordlessly back into the mountains.

Or do you just think it wordlessly? For me, personally, when I inspect how I'm thinking, I really do think wordlessly a lot of the time.

Then, when a stop came, he wordlessly walked out the door and held it open for one of the regulars. This lady had her eyes to the floor the whole time and after she'd got down, said "bye" to him.

I'm so god damn sick of participating here in good faith and getting wordlessly crapped on for it. The answer supports exactly what I said, and I provided a link.

My girlfriend asked me if something bad happened because I was just staring wordlessly into the air. Thanks for opening me up to this issue.

My yet another hunch is that experts often think wordlessly about matters their field. It's just too inefficient to word out every thought process.

When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks about two inches in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full.

The real magic is in how he tells a story wordlessly, syncing it with music like a dance. You aren’t spending time trying to unravel how it happened because you’re so enchanted by the story.

Sure if every employer was wordlessly conspiring to torture their employees for no reason things would be pretty bad, but that's not what happens.

A portly lady squeezed into a too-tight uniform, tucked inside a glass livestock enclosure; she motioned wordlessly to a chair. I ventured that I had a reference number.

"When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing, you probably hunt about till you find the exact words that seem to fit it." I can't see how this can be done for subjects other than physical objects.

Not sure there's one I can communicate to you, but I'm perfectly capable of forgetting the word for something and still knowing unambiguously yet wordlessly what it is, that's an experience. Catching a ball?

> he started printing out "pleasure cards" with his contact information and an invitation to **** on them and wordlessly handing them out to women instead. Did anyone ever report this behavior to law enforcement?

All of these possibilities are especially likely considering he already violated social norms by wordlessly coming up to them with a camera. I don't think this demonstrates anything about surveillance.

When conference organizers finally told him to stop coming up to women and asking them out, he started printing out "pleasure cards" with his contact information and an invitation to **** on them and wordlessly handing them out to women instead. In order to ward off his advances, women faculty at MIT have taken to taking advantage of his phobia of plants.

Rather than a genius out of nowhere who walks into a stranger's office, wordlessly drops on their desk a stack of handwritten pages wrapped in twine, and walks out, never to be seen again? I was thinking of this because I once knew an autistic person, from some humble and isolated upbringing, who was getting some informal math instruction, and they told me they thought they knew a proof for P=NP. I considered it extremely unlikely, but not utterly impossible.

As your example illustrates, if something can be illustrated with a visual image, or a another sensory experience, this happens wordlessly, but a word can substitute for a concept that has no sensory association.

In his own words[1], When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualising you probably hunt about until you find the exact words that seem to fit it. When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of blurring or even changing your meaning.

Quote Examples using Wordlessly

As soon as you have wordlessly answered these questions, you are through with your examination of that distraction, and you return your attention to the breath.” “[D]istractions are actually the whole point. The key is to learn to deal with these things. Learning to notice them without being trapped in them. That's what we are here for. The mental wandering is unpleasant, to be sure. But it is the normal mode of operation of your mind. Don't think of it as the enemy. It is just the simple reality. And if you want to change something, the first thing you have to do is see it the way it is.” “Whatever it is, don't try to repress it. Don't try to force it out of your mind. There's no need for that. Just observe it mindfully with bare attention. Examine the distraction wordlessly and it will pass away by itself.

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Wordlessly definitions

adverb

without speaking; "he sat mutely next to her"

See also: mutely silently taciturnly