interestedness

Example Sentences

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However, through all the rigid discipline the little girl retained her natural buoyancy of childhood, the spontaneous interestedness, the cheerfulness and animation, which were a part of her goodly heritage.

From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Groce, Helen Mason

We are told that Matthew Arnold combined all the characteristics of good conversation—politeness, vivacity, sympathy, interestedness, geniality, a happy choice of words, and a never-failing humor.

From Talks on Talking by Kleiser, Grenville

"Take into account the skill of forgers and the interestedness of apologists and calumniators."

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave

I think it was the clearness and understanding in them, and a sort of great interestedness.

From The White People by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

These are attachments that depend on sentiment rather than on interest, and which are as much purer and holier, as virtuous sentiment is purer and holier than worldly interestedness.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore