moistness

Example Sentences

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“I was just facing this blank wall and I couldn’t get past it. That utter sense of lostness and deep loneliness. I love life and I knew that the way I was was not living.”

From The Guardian • May 18, 2019

They are both compelling pictures of chaos, of being lost in the world, a creature lost in a forlorn space, and a visual map of lostness condensed into Borgesian irony.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2017

But along with that comes a sense of lostness and doubt, and at significant times there is more or less doubt, more or less knowledge.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2015

They are not necessarily admirable — it is not unreasonable to conclude that they are in fact very stupid — but the lostness of these young people makes it hard not to care about them.

From New York Times • May 29, 2014

The old man and old woman were only a part of this lostness and this hunger.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston