ness

Example Sentences

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If you don’t feel a shared responsibility for each other’s well-being, and own that responsibility with action, then your “together”-ness consists largely of sharing a home address.

From Washington Post

Suddenly, all the Hanksian “aw shucks”-ness fell away and he told me that he had played a villain, in the film Cloud Atlas.

From The Guardian

But even she remains always a victim of her own sadness, her “broken”-ness given a supernatural explanation that is more of a cop-out than a resolution.

From New York Times

“Consistency and the mental tough ness to stay focused from one play to the next,” Leach said.

From Washington Times

It seems to me that all the ness it talks about the lasting this the greenness the trees.

From The New Yorker