rawness
Example Sentences
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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
"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
“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
It was a lovely thought, but hearing Arturo’s optimism bubble to the surface, hearing the rawness of it, was excruciating.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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