definiteness
Example Sentences
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That definiteness offers an appealing sense of certainty to the weary and existentially burned-out person living through this down period between the Trump era, COVID, and whatever’s next.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2021
The writer Nat Hentoff saw his playing as having “strength and definiteness of attack, vigorous pulsation and organic logic”.
From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2016
“The master key consists of 17 principles, the first of which is definiteness of purpose,” and so on.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2012
A large fortune awaits the person who can show the average publisher with any definiteness the surest means of bringing a book to public attention.
From Time Magazine Archive
It lacked reserve and definiteness of literary purpose; it was sensational, incongruous, or naïve in its address to the intelligence.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
