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

A year is a long time to a child, but it did not account to me for a curious wanness in her colour.

From The Adventures of Harry Revel by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Miss Arden, looking back at her, noted how each day was helping to remove the pallor and wanness from that face.

From Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)