rawness
Example Sentences
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"It's like when the first snows come. It's a tenderness, but there's a rawness to it as well."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
While her aesthetic is rooted in indie-rock and folk, her songwriting’s mix of rawness and precision has drawn admiration from pop’s elite, including artists such as Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Humanity promised itself, in the rawness of that grief, that it would not face such a day again unprepared."
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
This is, to put it plainly, the stuff of well-considered emotional rawness, painstaking portraiture of our collective pasts.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Thinking about it now, in the security of my room, I am shaken with the rawness that touched me.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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