wanness
Example Sentences
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Better that than a slight theme stretched to wanness.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2012
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
For first-night and succeeding audiences Actress Gish displayed her famed wanness, made patrons sniffle during the death scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an attitude of such utter collapse, there was such a wanness on her white face that the commonplace words ceased to bubble over my lips, and, startled, I turned toward her husband.
From Life on the Stage by Morris, Clara
A wanness began to show in the dark shadows under her eyes and the pinched look about her lips even as early as the eventful evening when she posed for the senior living picture show.
From Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Speed, Nell
