How To Use Artless In A Sentence

A mother has hit out at heartless thieves who stole her son's memorial from a lamp-post.
In contrast to the image of the poet as the orderer, the craftsman, the poets of the _Fragments_ have a kind of artlessness (to us a very studied one, to be sure) that gave them an aura of sincerity and honesty. Fragments of Ancient Poetry
For shame, Barnet! what ninnis, what hartless raskles, you must beleave them to be, — in the fust plase, to fancy that you are a politticle genus; in the secknd, to let your politix interfear with their notiums about littery merits! The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
And if some heartless creep makes rude remarks that hurt your friend, you are not responsible for his actions.
They will drink their wretched heartless stuff, such as they call claret, or wine of Medoc, or Bordeaux, or what not, with no more meaning than sour rennet, stirred with the pulp from the cider press, and strained through the cap of our Betty. Lorna Doone

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He becomes cold, heartless and an egotistical exhibitionist; much like the man that left him for dead.
There, he was humble enough to confess to himself, was a chartless, shoreless sea, about which he knew nothing and which he must nevertheless somehow navigate. Chapter XV
The world of kitsch is in a certain measure a heartless world, in which emotion is directed away from its proper target towards sugary stereotypes, permitting us to pay passing tribute to love and sorrow without the trouble of feeling them. Roger Scruton on Beauty
During the first twenty minutes or so, I wasn't sure I would make it through the entire movie -- it was, I thought, similar in style to a kind of movie I find unbearable: a style based on long handheld shots, a soundtrack that contains little or no music and lots of environmental sounds characters breathing, eating, walking, and a general attitude that seems to fetishize "artlessness", though offers little to replace the art it so disdains. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres. History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
The play tells the story of a fabulously wealthy woman who seeks revenge on her heartless seducer.
Yet in spite of this dreadful tenue he greeted me without embarrassment and indeed with a kind of artless pleasure. Ruggles of Red Gap
Honestly, it is well worth bunking off work altogether on these occasions, since the pleasure of watching the artless production economies more than repays the rows I get for missed deadlines.
It seemed like a heartless move by her. The Sun
The days of rampantly commercial, craftless, contentless, corporate-driven pop, especially as practiced by artless teenage girls, are here.
While the young drifter proves he's not so heartless when he saves one of the kids from drowning, he is certainly not above cuckolding Les.
Her golden-brown shining hair waved back from a side parting with that carefully contrived artlessness which is the crowning achievement of a coiffeur, and in colour it exactly matched her soft frock, which was of the sports variety with a finely pleated skirt. Juggernaut
The conventional view held that cultural impress on the New World was rudimentary, artless, too recent to have mellowed the garish profusion of nature.
Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, — fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race. “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction
Our minister of justice is getting paid very well, I'm sure, for being assigned this position, but in the meantime he can heartlessly look the other way, and allow innocent people's lives to be destroyed.
He held her artless gaze for a moment, then laughed shamefacedly. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
I don't want to seem too heartless but - what? Times, Sunday Times
It's heartless, cruel and just not on. The Sun
Here in Mn we put in Democrats as we were upset w/Republicans and now everyone is crying about all the new taxes this 2008 session – it's almost heartless. Edwards: Tough for Clinton to 'make the math work'
These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which, if they love, love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves. Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst
Two visuals from the film achieve an artless eloquence.
The basic designs of the bags are simple and seemingly artless - a clutch is a rectangle and a pink velvet holdall the simplest container with the handles made of knotted lengths of fabric.
He was of an artless, open-hearted disposition which won men to him, and his reputation for generosity made his name fragrant throughout the entire region in which he lived. Chinese Folk-Lore Tales
Beside this group of, in every sense of the word, 'artless' little country girls, I will now set one -- in the best sense of the word -- 'artful' little country girl, -- a sketch by Gainsborough. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
His own scores reveal him as the most artful of 'artless' composers. "Marse Henry" : an autobiography,
The scene, so highly interesting to those who witnessed it, was to him insupportable, and he had left the room in agony, bitterly inveighing against his own folly, for having suffered it to take place, and secretly denouncing future vengeance upon the usurper of his rights, for so he basely termed the artless Yamboo. Yamboo; or, the North American Slave
To the Greeks, your destiny was in the hands of the Fates, three heartless old women.
A host of chances went begging and they had a cracking goal from John Hartless ruled out for offside.
Far from keeping him in his place they encouraged his boyish enthusiasms for mapping the moon and putting together artless plans for creating the rockets that would take adventurers to its hidden heart.
The Great Depression went to show just how cold and heartless the government could be.
The girl's voice was so cold and heartless at that point he thought he had lost her again.
The heartless witch cast a spell on the poor little girl.
Shortsighted tyrants, spineless power-mongers and heartless thugs vie egomaniacally, dangerously, for power.
It makes you an unthinking automaton, who will rapidly be shunned by society for your heartless or underwhelming response to everything.
Driven by a death wish and using the most revolting tactics, these heartless nihilists demand martyrdom.
The word dole is usually applied heartlessly to welfare mothers sustained in their dire poverty by meager government handouts, not to the top bankers now ripping off the taxpayers. Robert Scheer: No Tough Love for Wall Street
Cops said: 'The story he is using to trick people seems particularly heartless. The Sun
On account of his rank and his services, people pay the bestarred and betitled old brute a sort of reverence; and he looks down upon you and me, and exhibits his contempt for us, with a stupid and artless candour which is quite amusing to watch. The Book of Snobs
But ultimately it behaved how you'd expect: heartlessly. Danny Groner: Watson's Jeopardy! Win: What Did We Discover?
With that artless piety, which innocence only knows, she addressed the Supreme Being, and resigned herself to his care.
But more than made up for their hilariously awkward bottom-of-the-line routines with a palpable, hollow desperation that permeated every artless move which pleased my black bitter soul greatly.
Canalis, like Nodier, enchants the reader by an artlessness which is genuine in the prose writer and artificial in the poet, by his tact, his smile, the shedding of his rose-leaves, in short by his infantile philosophy. Modeste Mignon
While that's going on, put the bread bowl on a serving platter or an oversized plate, and artlessly arrange the bread chunks around it.
This is not to minimize the sadism, cliqueishness, and, well, Darwinian heartlessness of kids in schools and camps; nor is it intended to overgenerously credit the competence and open-mindedness of teachers and administrators. Weinerdog
Darren had a good feel for speech patterns, and an artless style, lacking in punctuation. AN OLDER WOMAN
I'm less sympathetic toward Hollywood stars, mostly blank-eyed cyphers with nothing to say and an artless way of expressing it.
To many in the world, those who had carried out these killings were heartless terrorists.
In Hong Kong, many people are disapointed, Uncle Ray said that Jackie Chan is heartless to talk like that: Global Voices in English » Jackie Chan: Chinese need control
Since we see a passion for grammar everywhere, and we know that the discipline, because of the number of scholars that now exist, is now open to the worst students, it would be horrid thing not to write, even if we write only as we are able, and not as we should, about this glory of our time, or even to leave the story hidden in the scabbiness of artless speech. The Deeds of God Through the Franks
She was cruel, omnivorous, heartless - and yet it seemed as if she cared about Margarite and Celeste even as she sought to manipulate them. FLOATING CITY
It was faultless, like an illustration from a book on heraldry, or an enormous butterfly pinned by a heartless collector.
-- Of Want. -- less. -- to be rendered without, or not to be: as, heartless, staunchless, resistless, exhaustless, trustless, not to be quenched, &c.; which are scarcely used but in poetry. The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to
The page is a young man of color who raps in crushingly artless rhymes.
In a blistering essay titled "The Derailed Country," posted online this past week and then quickly removed by censors, Han Han, one of China's most popular bloggers, mocked the leadership for what he characterized as a heartless approach to development. Trouble on the China Express
He called Mrs. Bolton Mrs. B., and was very intimate, familiar, and facetious with that lady, quite different from that “aughty, artless beast,” as Mrs. Bolton now denominated a certain young gentleman of our acquaintance, and whom she now vowed she never could abear. The History of Pendennis
But any implied criticism of players as heartless mercenaries or of club managers and financial backers as self-interested manipulators ignores the commercial realities of rugby in the modern era.
At its worst, this habit of optimism allows us to bury our heads in the sand, deny the ubiquity of pain in ourselves and others, and to immure ourselves in a state of deliberate heartlessness to ensure our emotional survival. Buddha
'Ease and simplicity, an even flow of unlaboured diction, and an artless arrangement of obvious sentiments' is the ideal to be striven for. Yet Again
But this _insensibility_, this heartlessness, gives very much the effect of a positive and real ill nature, and M. Bergson had thus simply repeated and expressed in a new way, more precise and correct, the opinion of Aristotle: the cause of laughter is malice mitigated by insensibility or the absence of sympathy. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
Slavish to this creed, planners brought us three soulless retail parks boasting multi-national chains selling artless tat on the outskirts of town.
Worried that it's going to make you seem mean and heartless? Christianity Today
He was blunt in his bearing, saying things which her father would have called indelicate and heartless, as though they gave him no effort, and placing himself at once almost in a position of ascendency. The Belton Estate
The council was branded heartless at the time because Kay suffers from spina bifida and Pearson is a chronic asthmatic.
Thomson's denunciation of the slave trade, and of cruelty to animals, especially the caging of birds and the coursing of hares; his preference of country to town; his rhapsodies on domestic love and the innocence of the Golden Age; his contrast between the misery of the poor and the heartless luxury of the rich; all these features of the poem foretoken the sentimentalism of Sterne and Goldsmith, and the humanitarianism of A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
The heartless witch cast a spell on the poor little girl.
But this resurrection is so often artless and joyless gloating, reducing an intense physiological/psychological experience to vulgar explication.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Thurston Moore's music has ridden far on his goofy charm and teenage enthusiasms, his apparent artlessness arguably his strongest suit. This week's new live music
They have absolutely no regard for the dirt that it is dragged through, the grime and graffiti of vandals in the form of distribution agents and projectionists, and the artless cuts they could make.
Socialist poetry: two words to conjure images of earnest but artless efforts by would-be Woody Guthries.
What hideous, heartless monsters these voters are!
Heartless laugh, was the best thing that I have.
Everything about them was dainty and feminine and naïve, innocent and pure, lovely and artless.
Is he the artless, slightly gauche, little-boy-lost he appears on screen, who forms a fantastic rapport with his subjects, but who, by the end of his films, just happens - seemingly by accident - to leave them completely exposed?
Auld Lang Syne" is the masterpiece of Robert Burns, the famous Scottish peasant poet, with its sincerity and artlessness as well as a beautiful tune, and therefore has won worldwide popularity.
Even murderous goons and heartless goombahs were stirred to noble deeds.
Were this Zach Curtis-directed Theatre in the Round production less entertaining than it is, I might have been more than mildly irked by Beane's rather artless repetition.
Rationally, most people understand that civilised life in this country faces a heartless and implacable foe who is prepared to strike as often and as cruelly as possible.
It's honestly not love, it's obsession and for her to want to hurt my so-called ‘friend’ whilst she lets Simon wallow is just heartless, especially when she was complaining of being hurt when he did it!
If he does not dish out the extra money he will be seen to be heartless and penny-pinching.
His paintings typically have an unpretentious, seemingly artless air, redolent of provincial life, which is at variance with the trend towards metropolitan sophistication characteristic of much British painting in the period.
A convict has escaped, unwittingly aided by young Julian's artless chatter, and John must be on hand to deal with the situation.
Dr. Wortle, when he read and re-read the article, and when the jokes which were made upon it reached his ears, as they were sure to do, was nearly maddened by what he called the heartless iniquity of the world; but his state became still worse when he received an affectionate but solemn letter from the Bishop warning him of his danger. Dr. Wortle's School
I used to read her site every day but now I feel that I simply cannot as her comment was heartless and cruel.
Jade the Heartless showed no mercy to any cur of a man who dared to cross her path.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Being sincere yet artless when talking to females, unlike ‘real’ men who are artful yet insincere, I sometimes approached these females and made an utter fool of myself.
In such a supposed case, I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye; and who, to use the expression of Collins, — — “heartless, oft, like moody madness, stare, The Fortunes of Nigel
artless elegance
On Mozart's funeral a spoil-sport historian once again gives short shrift to our cherished melancholic picture of a great man just heartlessly chucked into a hole.
At the time, on the gun decks of the Indomitable, the general estimate of his nature and its unconscious simplicity eventually found rude utterance from another foretopman, one of his own watch, gifted, as some sailors are, with an artless poetic temperament; the tarry hands made some lines which after circulating among the shipboard crew for a while, finally got rudely printed at Portsmouth as a ballad. Billy Budd
It is fair to call the narrative a technology because it is frequently described as "artless"; that is, it seems to work without the application of a designing mind. Site Two: Salisbury Plain, Sympathy, and Historicism.
What he meant, and what Mademoiselle Valle knew he meant -- also what he knew she knew he meant -- was that a woman, who was a heartless fool, without sympathy or perception, would not have the delicacy to feel that the girl must be shielded, and might actually see a sort of ghastly joke in a story of Mademoiselle Valle's sacrosanct charge simply walking out of her enshrining arms into such a "galere" as the most rackety and adventurous of pupils could scarcely have been led into. The Head of the House of Coombe
Now he must hope that his name alone adds curiosity value, sufficient to fool his fans into seeing his latest pulp-action piece of Carpentry, an artless and heartless sci-fi Western.
Schools taught the young by rhythm first, and then with simple striding chords, and eventually with artless tunes.
Wickham paints a dreadful picture of Darcy as a selfish and spoiled child who grew into a heartless and unjust man.
If partless, how can part of atom X abut or join with part of atom Y?
But it takes real talent to bring out the artless charm and simple wisdom of a babbling, barefoot and pregnant hick, whose only wish in life is to have her high school sweetheart love her the way he did when they were just teens.
I feel like a heartless harpy for having these feelings, but ultimately, I feel stifled by him, nay even negated.
The faux-naif iconography of a rural idyll represents the structuring of a world so simple, artless and beguiling that no one in his or her right mind could possibly wish to dissent from it.
We need to discuss his little article, which starts as a review of Razor Magazine and then sort of singles me out with screaming caps and artless lines.
Heartless men, dashing knights of the keyboard, arranged their cards into pairs and flushes and whatever else was necessary to rob a rube - me - of his next week's paycheck.
He is not a heartless man, but he insisted that folk who lived hugger-mugger 12 feet below sea level and refused to budge, even when the mayor ordered them out, should not be surprised to drown.
That might make some of these heartless, compassionless people vying for political office think twice about using that office for anything other than the public good.
Proposing the motion, he said ‘Such a practice is a petty and heartless effrontery to the most vulnerable and deserving section of our society.’
I'd be branded a heartless bigot, racist and drummed out of office in about 1 day.
Between 11 pm last night and 8am this morning the heartless swine crept into our front garden and took it.
HYDRANGEA - Thank You For Understanding , Frigidity, Heartlessness.
I would like to be a single-cell organisms, heartless creature alive.
I'm speaking to this wicked child, who has obtained our love and sympathy and attention on false pretences, for which she ought to be put in prison -- yes, in _prison_, for such a heartless trick on relatives who can ill afford to be so cruelly disappointed! ' The Talking Horse And Other Tales
It always looked a bit on the cold and heartless side to me. Times, Sunday Times
Today, of course, her £6 is in the national coffers, her pleas for clemency unheeded by heartless tax inspectors.
There, he was humble enough to confess to himself, was a chartless, shoreless sea, about which he knew nothing and which he must nevertheless somehow navigate. Chapter XV
I don't entirely trust the website since everything about the song - its simple bounce, its artless lyric - suggests the 1950s.
It's cruel, heartless and sickening. The Sun
Ihaveasmartpuppy: Interestingly, not everyone who declaws their kitties is a heartless, lazy bum. Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia
It is absolutely heartless and cruel. Times, Sunday Times
No, not because we're cruel and heartless. The Sun
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For the road the dictatorship is now taking, which indeed offers it the only possible hope of even a passable economic success, is the barren, heartless, unspiritual, materialistic tyranny of machine-like "industrialism" which the I.W. W. represents. The Red Conspiracy
Tonight they lay out somewhere below him, chartless, foodless, tentless, gunless — except for Hurree Babu, guideless. Kim
No one has been so heartless as to suggest we skip the picnic, but it is for the best.
Equally Odette and her alter ego Odile attract the prince less through their enchanted beauty than through their artlessness.
From the set to the characters' odd and affecting mannerisms, the whole enterprise suggested the kind of apparent simplicity and artlessness that only springs from hard work.
In Sky I first observed the use of Brogues, a kind of artless shoes, stitched with thongs so loosely, that though they defend the foot from stones, they do not exclude water. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
The freedom which men of long ago had did not blind them nor did it transform them into heartless creatures.
Ah," she said, on a tone judiciously compounded of feminine artlessness and of forthright British candour, and with a play of the eyebrows that attributed her momentary suscitation to the workings of memory, "of course -- Blanchemain. My Friend Prospero
After this there was no fight; only heartless, pitiless slaughter.
Script problems trip up Carol Lempert's Edith Frank, too; she idles for an hour-and-a-half as a melancholy mom trying to hold her family together before turning into a heartless monster practically on a dime.
How could he change so much and become so cold and heartless? The Sun
The days of rampantly commercial, craftless, contentless, corporate-driven pop, especially as practiced by artless teenage girls, are here.
As Josh writes of Sebald: "Sebald's work first shocked readers with its apparently artless photographs and endless paragraphs, but in recollection the work is nearly limpid, its melancholy polished to a high gleam. Saying Something
But I am posturing here, I suppose, when all I should be saying is that plot is not the opium of the artless masses…
The play tells the story of a fabulously wealthy woman who seeks revenge on her heartless seducer.
The song is cruel, heartless and very weird. Times, Sunday Times
Today the more religious zeal a person has, the more selfish and heartless he is apt to be.
The days of rampantly commercial, craftless, contentless, corporate-driven pop, especially as practiced by artless teenage girls, are here.
The overeducation of the poor is a heartless thing. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home
Suddenly I was being portrayed as someone I didn't recognise - a heartless, predatory marriage-wrecker.
She heartlessly sold people into slavery for her own profit.
Or was it a forecast of the deluge of disaster that has since overtaken the area and the country in the form of cold, heartless crime?
In Hassam's painting, however, the fish appear as much a part of the environment as the antique furniture, artless young woman, and sunny garden that beckons beyond the open windows.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tonight they lay out somewhere below him, chartless, foodless, tentless, gunless — except for Hurree Babu, guideless. Kim
a pot-walloper by capacity, he was a loose-jointed, sniffling creature, heartless and selfish and cowardly, without a soul, in fear of his life of Dan Make Westing
Where a beautiful, intelligent young woman once stood was a beast of death and heartlessness.
But its contents were more like proto-grime, the beats mostly two-step and UK garage, and the vibe far more playful and genial, courtesy of now almost forgotten crews like Heartless and Genius.
He was not a bad guy at heart - clueless, yeah, but certainly not heartless.
[484] 'In Sky I first observed the use of brogues, a kind of artless shoes, stitched with thongs so loosely, that, though they defend the foot from stones, they do not exclude water.' Life of Johnson
He didn't want Hakida to think him a heartless, merciless killer, as that wasn't it.
The designed product of the slave system, which Dr. Steel calls "a mild and humane system of bondage," was a dehumanized and bestialized thing, and there was no stone left unturned, no vigilance was deemed to exacting, no privations and cruelty too heartless, and no punishment too severe and diabolical to compass the end desired. Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
she behaves rather heartlessly toward her admirers
I may be a softie and a sappy old romantic, but after hearing that, only a heartless stick-in-the-mud would think hubby Rick is a big fat jerk without a shred of sensitivity!
Police were quick to condemn this heartless theft.
He's become a cold, heartless person. The Sun
He alienated many Republicans when he described as heartless anyone who did not agree with his relatively liberal approach to the children of illegal immigrants. Rick Perry forgets which agency he wants to scrap in Republican debate disaster
Now a partless, or indivisible entity does not necessarily have to be infinitesimal: souls, individual consciousnesses, and Leibnizian monads all supposedly lack parts but are surely not infinitesimal.
All they can deliver is some possibility, perhaps even some probability, that things will be paid for, but with the caveat that if you are unlucky and they decide to fight you, you and your loved ones will be forced to deal with heartless greedy corporations at a time when they are already facing maximum pain and vulnerability, because they or someone they love is sick. Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option
Charlie Hall made certain his expression betrayed no emotion, even though he wanted to slug his boss for being so heartless. Hell’s Gate
Thus some, with upturned nose, will altogether sniff and disdain Sansculottism; others will lean heartily on it; nay others again will lean what we call heartlessly on it: three sorts; each sort with a destiny corresponding. The French Revolution
Her only friend in this heartless, Ivy League town is a lovelorn manicurist who has problems of her own, yet takes pity on the extraordinarily rich Bel-Air girl.
Worried that it's going to make you seem mean and heartless? Christianity Today
Fox hunting is therefore cold, heartless, premeditated and above all, pointless.
Its course demands stamina, but the oeuvre of the Spanish master unfurls artlessly as a fascinating school of seeing.
These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which, if they love, love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves. Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst
To top all this off, my horoscope read that I am a cruel heartless beast of a person.
They are "artless" only insofar as they embody an aesthetic distinct from the abbey's inventory of images made by professional artists. 'Nuns As Artists'
Sharron Angle's heartless comments, and her refusal to repudiate them and apologize is just further evidence that she's too extreme and dangerous to represent Nevadans in the U.S. Autism Advocates Furious Over Angle's Health Care Comments
She is the heartless beauty, the eternally pitiless woman.
'Oh! a beautiful cousin, Mr. Caveton!' replies the young lady, with that perfect artlessness which is the distinguishing characteristic of all young ladies; 'an affair, of course.' Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
The song is cruel, heartless and very weird. Times, Sunday Times
When meeting the faculty at Wellesley, Roberts is artless enough to admit she has never been to Europe.
This is going to be difficult to do without sounding heartless, but I'll give it a try.
Yea, I farewelled my heart on parting day * And heartless, hopeless, now I bide forlore: Arabian nights. English
His prose is artless and nowhere near as polished as Osborne's, but his book still tells a fascinating story.
My artless comment was mistaken for rudeness.
An interesting book, Sybil, but Disraeli was not much of a novelist; it reads like spirited and somewhat artless version of Brontë's Shirley, or an abridged and more explicitly class-based Wives and Daughters.
They played it safe in the new, chartless brochure. You're invited to help pay for the Bush library
The weeding out of human souls, some for fatness and smiles, some for leanness and tears, is surely a heartless selective process -- as heartless as it is natural. WANTED: A NEW LAW OF DEVELOPMENT
Sir Philip Ramon, the British foreign secretary, "a firm, square-jawed, big-mouthed man with that shade of blue in his eyes that one looks for in peculiarly heartless criminals and particularly famous generals" you can tell right away that Wallace cut his literary teeth in Fleet Street, receives a death threat. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews
Raymon took pleasure in enlightening that virgin mind which seemed destined to open to receive his principles; but, despite the power he exerted over her untrained, artless mind, his sophisms sometimes encountered resistance from her. Indiana
What does come through is Spender's talent for friendship - and how his seemingly artless curiosity opened him to people, places and experiences he would otherwise have missed.
He held her artless gaze for a moment, then laughed shamefacedly. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
Each has a physical and and vocal signature, constructed with the kind of care that makes the process seems artless, and puts them on in rapid and seamless succession.
It's heartless, cruel and just not on. The Sun
Regulator 'shocked' by nurse's sacking THE Fair Work Ombudsman has issued a stern warning to a Melbourne nursing home over what it describes as heartless and shabby treatment of a long-serving elderly employee. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Boys at the age of thirteen are cruel and heartless.
I would like to be a single-cell organisms, heartless creature alive.
This is as deliciously cold and heartless as films can get. Times, Sunday Times
No, not because we're cruel and heartless. The Sun
Mrs. Sylvester and Eve both protested laughingly against this somewhat heartless view of the case; and after declining an offer of the back seats of the carriage, which was already waiting at the door to take Mrs. Sylvester and her daughter for their anteprandial drive in the Park, and expressing their regret that they had not seen Charles, uncle and nephew took their leave together. A Comedy of Masks A Novel
an artless translation
We ignore the down-at-heel and dissolute as we heartlessly window-shop the boulevards they stumble down.
‘Oh! a beautiful cousin, Mr. Caveton!’ replies the young lady, with that perfect artlessness which is the distinguishing characteristic of all young ladies; ‘an affair, of course.’ Sketches by Boz
Their pranks are mostly heartless and cruel. The Times Literary Supplement

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