That his face is quite different from mine if you look for anything other than “Asian-ness.”

This year, the show has even resurrected Eliot Ness, seen making a pompous speech to reporters about bringing Capone to justice.

Now it appears Boardwalk Empire is not only going to feed us more fiction but, with the addition of Ness, recycled fiction.

He was a gay bro, whose gay-ness was probably the most matter-of-fact thing about him.

At the same time, playing an animal does require more feral-ness, so to speak.

You will be in again this week, she said coaxingly, you can give me ten minutes out of your busy-ness.

The boys took the carriage around to the barn and left it in charge of Jack Ness, the man of all work.

The lads ran down to the barn and had Jack Ness hitch up a fresh team to a buckboard.

This really is asking for the "man-ness" of a man, something characteristic of him, and inseparable from him.

I run across him five years ago in Arizona, where he had been in the stage-robbin' bus'ness.