artlessness
Example Sentences
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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
Paradoxically, the effect of Evans’s scrupulous mastery is sometimes achieved by the artlessness of the amateur.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2017
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
Then cried with the artlessness of infancy, 'Miss Wolfe!
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
