wanness
Example Sentences
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Better that than a slight theme stretched to wanness.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2012
For first-night and succeeding audiences Actress Gish displayed her famed wanness, made patrons sniffle during the death scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tender, and tenderly performed, We Are No Longer Children has a wanness about it that might be set to better advantage within the covers of a pale, slim book.
From Time Magazine Archive
He knew she was there, and she was real, substantial, although something of the wanness of this mysterious world was about her.
From In the Roaring Fifties by Dyson, Edward
She saw no talons or beak, but a wanness which, indeed, suggested a skeleton.
From The Way of the Gods by Long, John Luther
