artlessness
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Did his school peers get under his skin: their sense of entitlement, their contempt for the lower orders, their noise, their vulgarity and artlessness?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2020
Even the most artful memoir lays claim to a certain artlessness.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2019
Jacques Rivette’s “Out 1” — a 12-hour film, completed in 1971 and all but impossible to see in its entirety until very recently — begins with an extended sequence that combines artlessness and high artifice.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2016
In Knausgaard, artlessness is inseparable from relentlessness, and the relentlessness takes the form of a single-minded inquiry into one person and his world.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016
She stroked his long black locks with her little soft hand and rested her head against his cheek--she was the very embodiment of innocence, simplicity, girlish artlessness.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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