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
If “Pavarotti” tells you anything about the man, it’s that that is what he was like: boyish, impulsive, a genuine enthusiast who combined artistry and artlessness in a way that was difficult to resist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2019
Jacques Rivette’s “Out 1” — a 12-hour film, completed in 1971 and all but impossible to see in its entirety until very recently — begins with an extended sequence that combines artlessness and high artifice.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2016
But the poor simple-hearted peasant, in his artlessness, could not perceive all this.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
