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

If anything, Szalay is even less embarrassed than Knausgaard by exclamatory artlessness.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

I liked that frankness, in which there was something like artlessness.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Kock, Charles Paul de