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

We looked out at the haunting wanness of the hills beyond Nethermere.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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