artlessly

Example Sentences

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That couplet may seem artlessly catchy, but its cadence must have taken immense patience to get just right.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019

Kiarostami doesn’t just drop a camera artlessly in the wilderness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2019

We meet in a north London studio, following her photo shoot, but there is no artifice in the minimal makeup or artlessly swept-back hair, and the miraculous perfection of every feature is mesmerising.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2018

In artlessly blatant ways — no costumes, props or makeup — he attempted to alter its surfaces, change its gender, cancel it out.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2016

The letter records at some length the early phases of the affair, but under the weight of the vision of Italy it rather breaks down and artlessly simplifies.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry