lubricity
Example Sentences
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From Hester Prynne to "family values" runs a line of anxious lubricity, of guilt and retribution.
From Time Magazine Archive
In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Yet I love facts, and hate lubricity and people without perception.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.
From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire
I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
