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Eve resists scream-queen clichés, but Gemma’s boringly typical tortured backstory is as flat as her wan chemistry with Nick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Our mother did reappear, looking wan and smiling bravely, and we had to pretend that she was fine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
If you were not eating meat in the 1990s and early 2000s, you might harbor painful memories of the wan, wet vegan dogs of yesteryear.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2024
But this show is too slight, too wan, to bear the weight of analytical dissection.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Pollard, wan and frail, sat in a wheelchair and waited for them.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
But if the orchestrations, by Mr. Kitt and Michael Starobin, are atypically wan, Mr. Kitt’s lyrics are even wanner.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2019
Carl's entrances into the Coliseum may have been slightly louder, but Edwin's were appreciably wanner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says one Bostonian who knows her well: "There isn't anyone wanner or dearer, when she's feeling good."
From Time Magazine Archive
When she was out in the drizzle, however, Her Majesty's smile grew wanner and wanner, and sometimes disappeared.
From Time Magazine Archive
A makeshift signal flag—a red knitted leg wanner of the sort worn by dancers— was knotted to the end of an alder branch by the vehicle's rear exit.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
She was dressed in her grey uniform and sheltered under her cape the thinnest, wannest mite of humanity that ever the Club had seen outside of the streets of a city slum.
From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
I cannot conclude this relation without expressing my wannest thanks to Lord Stirling, for the full patronage I received from him in every stage of the enterprize.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
My brother," cried Henry, with the wannest pleasure, "you have played me the most agreeable trick in the world, and have showed me the full confidence I may place in you.
From Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
In many a laboured scene of the wannest humour and of the most affecting passion I have seen the best actors disconcerted, while these buzzing muscatos have been fluttering round their eyes and ears.
From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins
To get the two hundred pounds required to pay off the mortgage upon 'Bachelors' Hall,' Clare addressed himself first to Lord Radstock, whom he looked upon as one of his wannest and most sincere friends.
From The Life of John Clare by Frederick Martin
Not precisely royal fare, but nourishing; it tasted good enough and wanned the belly.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Around noon, when the air had wanned, Frightful gave the little eyas the last bites of the rat.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and wanned the room indifferently.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
And by and by The wide-winged sunset wanned and waned; The lean night-wind crept westward, chilling and sighing; The poor old hulk remained, Stuck helpless in mid-ebb.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
Mary!" continued the countess, wanned by the recollection of his excellence, "you have no need to blush at the interest which you take in this amiable stranger!
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
It had a slim chance of wanning its fight.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a French sportwriter just wanning up to the famed Tour de France, the month-long bicycle race that attracts the world's largest crowds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stark Young takes a view of art which is wanning to those tired of abstruse and cerebral esthetics.
From Time Magazine Archive
She sat holding it in her hand, while the music penetrated her whole being like an effulgence, wanning and brightening the dark places of her soul.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
“So I work for a relief agency,” she said, wanning up.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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