artlessness

Example Sentences

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Did his school peers get under his skin: their sense of entitlement, their contempt for the lower orders, their noise, their vulgarity and artlessness?

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2020

Even the most artful memoir lays claim to a certain artlessness.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2019

Paradoxically, the effect of Evans’s scrupulous mastery is sometimes achieved by the artlessness of the amateur.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2017

In Knausgaard, artlessness is inseparable from relentlessness, and the relentlessness takes the form of a single-minded inquiry into one person and his world.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

There is nothing of the coquette about Michaela, and her songs are all straightforward, simple airs that win by their very artlessness.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel