gameness

Example Sentences

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Too bad the weak body-swapping farce she’s given to play isn’t worthy of her gameness, a missed opportunity to fuse Lovecraft, Blake Edwards and Paul Verhoeven.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023

And the passing of melodic themes between the chorus and the orchestra at the convergence of the finale was a breathtaking display of Britten’s compositional dexterity — and the BSO’s gameness.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2022

A World-Herald sportswriter memorialized Flippin as “the charging bull, into which was bred the tenacity of the bulldog, the ferocity of the tiger, the gameness of the man who knows no fear.”

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2020

Then there are other guests like Kacey Musgraves and Lil Nas X who pleasantly surprised me with their gameness to play.

From Salon • May 27, 2020

“She’s a game kid all right,” he said to himself, and a half-formed plan for utilizing her gameness began to take definite shape.

From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter