artlessness

How To Use artlessness In A Sentence

• 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
• Equally Odette and her alter ego Odile attract the prince less through their enchanted beauty than through their artlessness.
• But this is not all; beneath the wonderful singing quality are form, compression, reserve force, meaning; the spontaneity now is that apparent artlessness which is the triumph of the lyrical art. The Stranger at the Gate
• He excelled in that specious, though apparently heedless raillery, which is so apt to slip without suspicion into a lady's ear; and he could ply his suit, under this disguise, with such seeming artlessness and unconcern, that a lodgement in the citadel was sometimes effected ere the garrison was aware of the intrusion. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
• Conceptions more and more spiritual thus matured. unfolded, a kind of chiding, or rebuke of heartlessness begins to be heard in certain quarters, as if men could think to carry God’s favor by bullocks and goats and blood! The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
• He resented its implicit accusation of heartlessness and ignorance of the true condition of his country.
• I was indignant at the heartlessness of his cynicism, and so the answer that leaped to my lips was out before I had time to reflect upon its unladylikeness. The Light of Scarthey
• Yet in such circumstances the woman who has been left in the lurch is supposed to suffer, quite apart from the damage to her affection, a sort of moral damage and disgrace from the heartlessness or fickleness of another person – the man to whom she has been engaged; and this moral damage is, I believe, taken into account in actions for breach of promise of marriage (where there is no question of seduction). Marriage as a Trade
• Equally Odette and her alter ego Odile attract the prince less through their enchanted beauty than through their artlessness.
• ‘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