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

Eating a piece of rye-bread as she went, Eustacie, in her gray cloak, rode under Martin's guardianship along the deep lanes, just budding with spring, in the chill dewiness before sunrise.

From The Chaplet of Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte Mary