rawness

Example Sentences

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"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

This is, to put it plainly, the stuff of well-considered emotional rawness, painstaking portraiture of our collective pasts.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Both tap into the rawness of the era’s garage-band songs, such as the Pleasure Seekers’ “What a Way to Die” and the Music Machine’s “Wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Mater Dei third-string quarterback Trevor Scott is a left-hander standing 6–foot-4, whose skill set showed rawness as well as potential.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

You see, he didn’t understand that the man was not just looking at the Cold, Cold Ocean but studying it, in all its rawness, unobstructed.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el