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
It was the wanness of this light that put the thought into his mind that it would soon be time to send round to the stables for his visitor's car.
From The Lake by Moore, George (George Augustus)
Her jealous shame at being disprized and notoriously neglected had given her wanness and bitterness, instead of warmth and sweetness.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
