engagingness

Example Sentences

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His lines are lazy, woozy, all-forgiving reportage about the seasons’ slow parade, the meandering ongoingness of our world: arrival, decay and the modest glory in between.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

This spring, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, I stood again in front of “The Milkmaid,” returning 33 years after that day in Lagos to her humility, her solidity and the ongoingness of her domestic work.

From New York Times • May 25, 2023

What he didn’t imagine in his book was a dystopian world not of the grimmest kind of ongoingness but of endings, of ultimate destruction.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2019

In Sleigh’s hands these moments of ongoingness mix something of the daily with something of the miraculous.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2018

It’s the inglorious terror of a chronic condition; the unrelenting brutality of ongoingness.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2015