How To Use Artlessness In A Sentence
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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
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Equally Odette and her alter ego Odile attract the prince less through their enchanted beauty than through their artlessness.
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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
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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)
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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.
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He resented its implicit accusation of heartlessness and ignorance of the true condition of his country.
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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
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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
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Equally Odette and her alter ego Odile attract the prince less through their enchanted beauty than through their artlessness.
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‘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
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'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
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Where a beautiful, intelligent young woman once stood was a beast of death and heartlessness.
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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
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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.
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Equally Odette and her alter ego Odile attract the prince less through their enchanted beauty than through their artlessness.
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HYDRANGEA - Thank You For Understanding , Frigidity, Heartlessness.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
