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

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

If anything, Szalay is even less embarrassed than Knausgaard by exclamatory artlessness.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

They now understood better than previously the artlessness and spirituality of the man before them, and, after that scene, they accorded to him entire esteem and confidence.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann