artlessness

Example Sentences

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Such artlessness turns what could be a quick, jaunty movie into a slog.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

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

It’s not that Szalay writes about himself but that, like Knausgaard in “My Struggle,” he wants to burst through conventional notation and saturate his work in a comprehensive artlessness.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

They, with great artlessness, generally sit down by me, and are never weary in admiring the different articles of my dress; making their comments one to another, with the most lively admiration and astonishment.

From Samboe; or, The African Boy by Hedge, Mary Ann