uncommonness

Example Sentences

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At the same time, the uncommonness of his big-picture analysis and the apparent difficulty of tracking down Cops’ more reluctant participants speak to their arduousness.

From Slate • May 24, 2019

What is telling is that his uncommonness is not marshaled on the show to help comedy’s commoners.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2014

"What's the uncommonness?" said Mrs. Thorn, addressing herself rather to Mr. Rossitur as she saw Mr. Carleton's averted eye; "Is she handsome, Mr. Rossitur?"

From Queechy, Volume I by Warner, Susan

He said he had been roused by a sound, whose power of disturbing him arose, not from its loudness, but from its uncommonness.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

The other characteristics of his stories are uncommonness of his conceptions, masterly compositions, ofttimes artificial.

From So Runs the World by Sienkiewicz, Henryk