dewiness

Example Sentences

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She’s no longer prone to dewiness; she’s fully present onstage.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2020

For this production — directed by a keen-eyed Scott Elliott and featuring a capable, callow-seeming young cast whose ostensible dewiness disappears when the blood starts to flow — deserves your full attention.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2015

What hits you first is the dewiness of Fawn Ledesma's Juliet, the lovestruck maiden of the House of Capulet.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2012

His adolescent dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism.

From Time Magazine Archive

But presently she noticed that the trees were casting long giant shadows towards the town, pansy-coloured clouds were in the sky, and a certain dewiness had come into the air.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia