nakedness

Example Sentences

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The results are childlike at times — parts of “La Noche” and “Lo_Divino” sound like nursery rhymes — while the nakedness of “Volvieron” brims with a solemn, ageless kind of grace.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Germans “are generally quite relaxed about” nudity, Keon West, a professor of social psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, who has conducted studies into nakedness and body image, previously told The Washington Post.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

Locked in the bathroom, Sylvie hypes herself up ahead of a meeting with investors scheduled for the next day, speaking poetically and convincingly about the value of style and vision, fashion’s triumph over nakedness.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023

His allusions to nakedness, decay, demons, and miracles illustrate two insights articulated by scholars such as Derek Alderman.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2021

Sometimes, leaning over the cracked, “tattle-tale gray” bathtub, he scrubbed his father’s back; and looked, as the accursed son of Noah had looked, on his father’s hideous nakedness.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin