rawness
Example Sentences
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"It's like when the first snows come. It's a tenderness, but there's a rawness to it as well."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But the track is too long, and the production is too polished to convey the rawness the song demands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
All of these aspects of who he is, including not showing his face and existing publicly as Stillz, play a role in the instinctual rawness or “realness” that has defined his career thus far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Humanity promised itself, in the rawness of that grief, that it would not face such a day again unprepared."
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
All around us, there was a vastness to the world, an unpeopled rawness, just the trees and the sky and the water reaching out toward nowhere.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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