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

He blurs the line between deliberate artlessness and accidental ineptness to such a degree that it’s hard to tell if the dialogue is meant to be as bland and clunky as it often is.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2019

Walker’s artlessness often swerves from astounding to grating, almost precious.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2018

It is therefore a science founded on nescience, and an art founded on artlessness.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John