dewiness

Example Sentences

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She’s no longer prone to dewiness; she’s fully present onstage.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2020

For this production — directed by a keen-eyed Scott Elliott and featuring a capable, callow-seeming young cast whose ostensible dewiness disappears when the blood starts to flow — deserves your full attention.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2015

What hits you first is the dewiness of Fawn Ledesma's Juliet, the lovestruck maiden of the House of Capulet.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2012

Where there were no wounds, it had a peach-like tint, faintly damp with the dewiness of the newly dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had expected to gloat over a certain dewiness of her eyes, a patient drooping of her lips.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)