nakedness

Example Sentences

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The results are childlike at times — parts of “La Noche” and “Lo_Divino” sound like nursery rhymes — while the nakedness of “Volvieron” brims with a solemn, ageless kind of grace.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Germans “are generally quite relaxed about” nudity, Keon West, a professor of social psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, who has conducted studies into nakedness and body image, previously told The Washington Post.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

In Renaissance paintings it’s literal disgrace, as when Adam and Eve nosh from the tree of knowledge and first recognize their own nakedness.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2021

Along with big brains and near nakedness, sweating is one of the ways that we are amazing in the animal kingdom.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2021

Sometimes, leaning over the cracked, “tattle-tale gray” bathtub, he scrubbed his father’s back; and looked, as the accursed son of Noah had looked, on his father’s hideous nakedness.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin