artlessness

Example Sentences

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It’s that very artlessness, however, that has made “Terrifier” a phenomenon.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024

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

In English, Prior transplanted from France some of La Fontaine’s ease of narration and artful artlessness, while Gay took as his model the Contes rather than the Fables.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various