dewiness

Example Sentences

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She doesn’t push it, but as a study in evaporating dewiness, she’s a guaranteed heartbreaker.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2015

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

His adolescent dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their dewiness is dank; It chills my pallid arms, Once blushing 'neath their charms; And their green stems hang lank, Stricken with leprosy, and fair no more, But withered to the core.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller