youngness
Example Sentences
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“You hear a youngness when you listen to these songs,” says musicologist Lily Hirsch, author of “Can’t Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
Humphries said Seau "brought out a lot of youngness" in older players.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2012
Coles found that youngness is the key to successful desegregation.
From Time Magazine Archive
His youngness and single-mindedness were obvious enough, but perhaps his general demeanor altogether lacked, or had too little of, that sort of cute solemnity that many adults readily speak up, or down, to.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
The youngness of the Beautiful grows old, And on thy lips the bride's sweet kiss seems cold; And in the crowd of joys—upon thy throne Thou sitt'st in state, and harden'st into stone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
