artlessness

Example Sentences

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Such artlessness turns what could be a quick, jaunty movie into a slog.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

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

A highly orchestrated artlessness is a key part of the Polo brand.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 5, 2019

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

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2019

The children would talk to him as between man and man, and with an artlessness and candour which as a rule obtained only among themselves.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John