wanness
Example Sentences
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Better that than a slight theme stretched to wanness.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2012
For first-night and succeeding audiences Actress Gish displayed her famed wanness, made patrons sniffle during the death scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Tender, and tenderly performed, We Are No Longer Children has a wanness about it that might be set to better advantage within the covers of a pale, slim book.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His pleasant, youthful face was drawn to mummy-like wanness.
From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Goddard, Charles
They moved quietly, a little wanness on the lips of the children, at Good Friday, feeling the shadow upon their hearts.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)