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

“His voice caught me first,” Rodriguez told me, “that very distinctive tone, and then I heard the listeners calling in. The rawness of connecting with a listener, of spinning the record, it was something.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2025

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