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

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

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