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

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

There was a wanness, a heaviness of aspect, that made him look ten years older.

From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Strether stared at him with a little of the wanness, no doubt, that the vision of more to "make out" could scarce help producing.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry