interestedness
Example Sentences
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The especial point of excellence which characterizes the work of the Negro teacher is its interestedness.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
We are told that Matthew Arnold combined all the characteristics of good conversation—politeness, vivacity, sympathy, interestedness, geniality, a happy choice of words, and a never-failing humor.
From Talks on Talking by Grenville Kleiser
"Take into account the skill of forgers and the interestedness of apologists and calumniators."
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
I think it was the clearness and understanding in them, and a sort of great interestedness.
From The White People by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I might give them what degree of credit I pleased; and take them with abatement for Mr. Solmes's interestedness, if I thought fit.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
