tidiness

Example Sentences

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One of the pleasures here is witnessing both actors reanimate the rhythms of a long-ago conversation, their text absent the typical tidiness of a screenplay and instead an interwoven network of inflection, attitude, allusion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

It feels satisfying that he was apprehended, and as a reporter there’s a certain kind of tidiness about it being ready for Monday morning.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2025

A white shirt is like a physical manifestation of order, of tidiness, and of whatever elements of oppression we still apply to getting dressed up.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024

"Her link-up play is something that has really improved, the tidiness of it. She finds herself in the box always between centre-halves and is really difficult to pick up."

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2023

At the camps, the boys were taught the virtues of being a good soldier: cleanliness, tidiness, teamwork, and obedience.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti