battiness

Example Sentences

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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

His bigotry and her battiness aside, it was the love between Archie and Edith on All in the Family that allowed Americans to look at both the worst and the best in themselves.

From Time • May 12, 2015

They seem more at liberty to capture the full range of something like depression—its battiness and bathos, how it can feel like waving around a bunch of dead fish—as well as its piercing edge.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2014

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