jaggedness

Example Sentences

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Although a few zealots took issue with Dever’s selection, she lends the right proportion of jaggedness and focus to a complicated figure that needs to sustain our interest for the long term.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

The writing is funnier and more poignant, the ensemble has gelled and the tonal jaggedness that plagued the previous season has been smoothed out.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2022

Fiennes brings a wonderful maturity and complexity to the role: a jaggedness, a simmering amour propre, a neurotic obsessiveness, an importunate yearning.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2021

The work grew more chaotic and the shapes, in their jaggedness, faintly violent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2020

In shrill crescendos and discordant basses, with heartpiercing jaggedness, with blood-curdling raspishness, each one, boy, father, mother, meddlesome relative, competent or incompetent assistant, indiscriminate servant, filing his separate sorrow into the Senior Surgeon's tortured ears!

From The White Linen Nurse by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell