" I guess you're feeling pretty tired and hungry, " Matthew ventured to say at last, accounting for her long visitation of dumbness with the only reason he could think of.
Dumbness succumbed to therapy, but subject continued to claim total loss of memory except associations with Alsace-Lorraine and Strasbourg whither he was transferred in September 1945, on Stateless Passport No 304-596.
It is perhaps logical, if unfortunate, for man to create God in his own image, but it is taking advantage of the creatures' dumbness to assign our complicated emotions to their simpler natures.
A dumbness—a shame—still cracks my voice in two, even when I want to say " hello" casually, or ask an easy question in front of the check-out counter, or ask directions of a bus driver.