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
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
The servant-woman came to look at the child who slept in the shawl, with cheeks flushed hot and red, and a whiteness, a wanness round the eyes.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
