rawness

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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

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

By contrast, White’s performance is a wonder to behold, carefully walking the tightrope between Springsteen’s bigger-than-life stardom and the deep thinker who brought the rawness of “Nebraska” to fruition.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2025

Bernthal and Colón-Zayas were opposite each other the whole time the cameras rolled, adding an irreplaceable rawness to the interaction.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 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