battiness

Example Sentences

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Costanzo was a superb, well, straight man to Bond’s battiness, and their voices — one slender and pure, the other husky and vibrato-heavy — improbably blended.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2022

Without spoiling too much, at one point you’ll be given the choice to click on a very familiar logo, which sends the whole film down a wormhole of genuine, incredible, self-referential battiness.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2018

Nothing in Wilde’s prior output hinted at such ebullience or the sustained addictive battiness of his aristocrat caricatures.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2018

I guess Johnson knew that, for all their battiness, even the Libertarians want some standing in the process.

From Slate • May 31, 2016

My life unrolled before me, a life distanced and remote from the world around me, a life trapped in my own deepening battiness.

From Home Again, Home Again by Doctorow, Cory