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

His face, despite its angularity of outline and its wanness, had that expression of complacency which often relieves from pathos the countenances of harmlessly demented people.

From Tales from Bohemia by Stephens, Robert Neilson