How To Use Nakedness In A Sentence

These are all labels, clothing, which cover our nakedness because we do not take cognisance of who we are. Times, Sunday Times
Thirst, hunger , and nakedness are positive evils.
That was the reason why they and their children had been all their lives on the verge of starvation and nakedness, whilst their 'betters' -- who did nothing but the thinking -- went clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Nobody was going to waste their time spying on my nakedness; it's a singularly unedifying sight. GALILEE
Looking at her toes now, they clamored for attention in their nakedness.

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If you can't get a rag out of somebody's garbage, the steward of any estate will give you something to cover your nakedness.
Her nakedness yielded to him, radiant, warm, odorous and lavish-limbed, enfolded him like a shining cloud, enfolded him like water with a liquid life; and like a cloud of vapour or like waters circumfluent in space the liquid letters of speech, symbols of the element of mystery, flowed forth over his brain. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I almost began hoping my nakedness had not offended any Moslem sensitivities.
Once the initial awareness of nakedness had been absorbed, the mind settles down serenely to watch the dance.
Her youth and nakedness, which at times is accentuated by a circlet of flowers worn in her hair, is emblem enough.
You Ingliz trained them, but there are many whose hearts are not so good, they call us "abid" (slaves) and despise our nakedness and our customs. ' Archive 2004-10-31
They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of & straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
No craving void left aching in the breast") _an aching void_; and the nephew, Dr. Arthur Aikin, by way of variety, _a void aching_; whilst Mrs. Barbault he designated as _that pleonasm of nakedness_; since, as if it were not enough to be _bare_, she was also Autobiographical Sketches
Oxymoronically for something fairly reliant on nakedness, it has outfits. Times, Sunday Times
As though he still weighed one hundred and forty pounds instead of one ninety, Milton flipped gymnastically into the air and landed on his feet, completely unaware of both his nakedness and his dream-filled morning erection. Middlesex
When her proud pretensions are baffled, and her vain towering hopes of an absolute and universal dominion brought to nought, and she appears not to have been so strong and considerable as she would have been thought to be, then to see the nakedness of the land do they come, and it appears ridiculous. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The trees felt cold in their nakedness, bearing their branches like rheumatic bones. GYPSY MASALA
the squashed looking nakedness of the fledgling birds
Gen 9: 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. Protecting Our Daughters
A black feather boa, perhaps bought for the Black Ascot, curved lavishly round to cancel any suggestion of nakedness.
He had pulled the blanket over his body to hide his nakedness.
It becomes very much about nakedness, vulnerability and intimacy.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister ; she is your father's blood relative.
Cloth and feather adornments were painted bright red (with small touches of yellow) to bracket the people's nakedness, and to expose their bodies more fully.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister : she is thy father's near kinswoman.
It's an extremely physical performance: invariably attired in long, flowing caftans, easily whipped off for a game of squash, or a quickie before dinner, Ted is not only comfortable with his own nakedness, he revels in it.
My nightly assignment, as the inhabitor of rental property, is to surf wildly the web and hunt for our new abode, the one set off in the nakedness of woods and the expansiveness of country. Outfoxed Diary Entry
Though Kerouac and Ginsberg each sought to elevate the term "Beat Generation" into something "beatific," John Clellon Holmes, who gave the term currency in a 1952 article, paraphrased Kerouac saying, "It involves a sort of nakedness of mind, and ultimately, of soul," a feeling of being beaten down to the bedrock of consciousness. Post-gazette.com - News
Gandhi's pejorative reference to nakedness is ironic considering that, as Mr. Lelyveld details, when he was in his 70s and close to leading India to independence, he encouraged his 17-year-old great-niece, Manu, to be naked during her "nightly cuddles" with him. Among the Hagiographers
I peeled back the cover and exposed the glistening nakedness of the virgin steel.
The marks on their bodies were of a different, dark juice, genipap, which was used to create the most intricate of geometrical designs; a form of decoration that tended to distract the eye from the otherwise total nakedness of the Xara females. River Of Desire
To see another's nakedness when bathing was not forbidden in the temple.
It's more brazen, more shot through with the raw ache of relationships and the nakedness of emotional experience.
These were - so the pamphlets alleged - a radical sect during the English Revolution, whose most striking tenet was that the attainment of a sanctified state involved the adoption of the prelapsarian nakedness of humanity's first father.
Don Quixote is the first modern novel, perhaps the most eternal novel ever written and certainly the fountainhead of European and American fiction; here you have Gogol and Dostoevsky, Dickens and Nabokov, Borges and Bellow, Sterne and Diderot in their genetic nakedness, once more taking to the road with the gentleman and the squire, believing the world is what we read and discovering that the world reads us. Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor
I let out an astonishing noise, and was trying to steady myself for a plunge, but she checked me with a lifted hand, slid one foot forward, crooked her arms like a nautch-dancer, and came gliding slowly towards me, swaying that splendid golden nakedness in time to the throbbing of the music beneath our feet. Fiancée
It ceased abruptly and her gaze left his to wander down his body, stopping only to rest upon his nakedness.
This is turning into a sporting season of nakedness.
He thought about Susan's soft and pliant nakedness that one Sunday.
Truth’s best ornament is nakedness.
A few yards away, just up from the white beach, a group of Sisters rested upon loungers in glistening nakedness, while a tall, lean Harlequin, a Mandroid pleasure server, offered them cold drinks. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The figure, in its nakedness, has an almost ghostly, insubstantial quality, a pathetic vulnerability.
The city is ‘as famous for its natural beauty as it is for Carnival revelling with televised samba parades and belles in their Olympic nakedness,’ said one Brazilian judge.
No craving void left aching in the breast") _an aching void_; and the nephew, Dr. Arthur Aikin, by way of variety, _a void aching_; whilst Mrs. Barbault he designated as _that pleonasm of nakedness_; since, as if it were not enough to be _bare_, she was also Autobiographical Sketches
He had pulled the blanket over his body to hide his nakedness.
Existentialism sees man exposed in his nakedness and solitude, it is unhistorical, even antihistorical. REALISM IN LITERATURE
She wore a cape of white feathers that she slowly removed to reveal her nakedness.
Surely the ultimate equaliser is not nakedness but clothing, which lets us be who we want to be, not merely the body with which we've been lumbered?
So in other words, nudity is being clothesless with a purpose and therefore feels, to me at least, more deliberate and empowered, whereas nakedness is sort of unintentional, and therefore more careless or even vulnerable. Bookslut
Secularism is the fig leaf that covers the nakedness of their obstructive politics.
It ceased abruptly and her gaze left his to wander down his body, stopping only to rest upon his nakedness.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
My favourite sex writing is the writing that like Lisa Moore’s Open or Degrees of Nakedness is real sex in seductive portions (the sensuous particulars Richard and Russell describe); Moore offers details and they read like morsels of a slow, blindfolded meal. Discussion: On Sex in Fiction
I wasn't and still am not very comfortable with my own nakedness.
When will he appear from the swamp and swallow up her nakedness hungrily, sharp-set, to rid the world of the dirt that we sweep under the carpet to repress.
a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. Waverley
She pulled the sheet higher to cover her nakedness.
the nakedness of the landscape
He looked at her with the dispassionateness which comes to men who have lived much in countries where nakedness offers itself unashamed to the sunlight, and said to himself, "I should like to see her run. The Judge
Just as we do not shop for clothes just to cover our nakedness, nor eat just to fill the gap, so we don't buy sunglasses merely for the purposes of protecting our eyes.
Of course, if she and this strange woman were playing kinky games with chains and nakedness, at least that meant the guy staring at her wasn't a stranger.
It's more brazen, more shot through with the raw ache of relationships and the nakedness of emotional experience.
Truth’s best ornament is nakedness.
The all seemed shocked by her destroying her property and doing it so very thoroughly, that they seemed positively oblivious to her nakedness.
Henceforth, men and women are prone to view each other as objects, which is why they are now ashamed of their nakedness.
I shift into a sitting position, making sure the sheets cover my nakedness.
Li Yuan rose, knowing it was important, letting Master Nan wrap the cloak about his nakedness.
The hot, high Sun in the middle of an azure blue wash - straight out of a David Hockney painting, the metal men stood erect, gazing out to sea in all their metalled nakedness.
Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
And from the storm that swirled a formal nakedness took shape, the truth of disguise and the mask of belief were joined forever.
There are similarities in the practices of both sects: initiation is by tearing out the hair, and the lifestyle is one of extreme austerity involving nakedness, penances, and ordeals.
I have come to this world , stark - naked ; am I to back , blink, in the same stark - nakedness?
Of course, there's much more to his art than just nakedness.
Adam and Eve were mortified by what their nakedness represented.
It all lies in how taboo nakedness is in our society.
The trees felt cold in their nakedness, bearing their branches like rheumatic bones. GYPSY MASALA
Although not actually showing the birth of Venus it shows her landing on the island of Cyprus, having been blown there by the west wind on a shell, waiting to meet her and cover her nakedness is one of her handmaidens.
And now for a cup of tea, she thought, stepping out to wind a large bath towel around her nakedness.
Spinning around, I noticed my nakedness, the goose pimples on my warm flesh.
In the astounding nakedness of its indifference to the life of its own poor, the government has therefore left itself visible, questionable.
Just as we do not shop for clothes just to cover our nakedness, nor eat just to fill the gap, so we don't buy sunglasses merely for the purposes of protecting our eyes.
Human nakedness was given no added nobility, but unworn noble garments did command separate admiration.
Is it not better to give glory to God by humble confession, than, in tenderness to ourselves, to seek for fig-leaves to cover our nakedness; and to put God to it to build his glory, which we denied him, upon the ruins of our own, which we preferred before him; and to distrain for that by yet sorer judgments which we refused voluntarily to surrender to him? The Reformed Pastor
Her nakedness, though, is well camouflaged by a veil of long curly hair falling on her shoulders.
They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
The figure, in its nakedness, has an almost ghostly, insubstantial quality, a pathetic vulnerability.
He wanted the children who had been playing tag in the dark to appear at his piked gate; he wanted someone from the lawn party to arrive by boat at the back of his property and invite him over; he wanted clothes on his body to take away the sense of nakedness and vulnerability that turned the backs of his legs to pudding. The Glass Rainbow
Looking at her toes now, they clamored for attention in their nakedness.
As nakedness goes, the piece is a fairly tame, unobjectionable example.
Her nakedness, though, is well camouflaged by a veil of long curly hair falling on her shoulders.
In Tibetan iconography, physical nakedness symbolizes this naked unbounded state of mind.
The truth is, the prevalence of nakedness is such that we no longer even remark on seeing a nice girl in a bikini.
The reference to nakedness is sometimes taken to refer to bodiless souls but here it would seem to function in an emblematic way best explained in a social context.
Another pro-nudism argument in poverty-stricken Brazil is that nakedness strips people of their social differences.
The figure, in its nakedness, has an almost ghostly, insubstantial quality, a pathetic vulnerability.