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

Strether stared at him with a little of the wanness, no doubt, that the vision of more to "make out" could scarce help producing.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry

He was of the temperament called melancholic, scarcely concealed by an exterior of lightness of humor,—having a deep and fixed seriousness, jesting lips, and wanness of heart.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various