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

It’s not that Szalay writes about himself but that, like Knausgaard in “My Struggle,” he wants to burst through conventional notation and saturate his work in a comprehensive artlessness.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

Haven't you noticed that for all his artlessness, he never really does tell much about himself?

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein