rawness

Example Sentences

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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

He will face scrutiny over his perceived rawness, but Chelsea will point to the fact he has more experience than Maresca when the Italian was appointed in 2024.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

The best salads mix the cooked — a little caramelized onion, roasted red pepper, maybe a chopped artichoke heart — with the crisp rawness of shaved fennel, scallions or celery.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

We wished we were back in the mountains but the spring weather lasted only a few days and then the cold rawness of the breaking-up of winter came again.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway