wildness
Example Sentences
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Baseball’s rules were standardized by middle-class Manhattan professionals who “squeezed all the wildness of the folk game into their polished diamond,” giving it a sheen of gentility.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
To some extent, there was a time when such carefree wildness reigned.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025
Lean and athletic, with a wildness in his eyes, Ray displays the same antagonism as Day-Lewis’ Bill the Butcher from “Gangs of New York” or Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
"It was hoped my father would be a calming influence to Paddy," says Ms Almonds-Windmill, though she thinks the portrayal of Mayne's "wildness" in the TV series is a "little over the top".
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025
The wildness was gone and I felt finer than I had ever felt.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
