How To Use Naturalness In A Sentence

  • However, we are a culture that is obsessed with death as well as unnaturalness. Blue Dress Painting
  • Some components of a thriving friendship are honesty, naturalness, thoughtfulness, some common interests. 
  • The translation sacrifices naturalness for the sake of accuracy.
  • This clearly shows the unnaturalness of the idea of borrowing foreign doctrines regardless of whether they can be adapted to the Russian environment.
  • We should not mistake informality for inefficiency, or naturalness for sloppiness.
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  • Green: life, naturalness, restfulness, health, wealth, prosperity; in certain contexts, can imply decay, toxicity.
  • Some components of a thriving friendship are honesty, naturalness, thoughtfulness, some common interests. 
  • The critics praised the reality of the scenery and the naturalness of the acting.
  • The naturalness of the dialogue made the book so true to life.
  • The trouble is that this call fails: Whatever one's definition of natural, either homosexuality is natural, or it's unnaturalness says nothing at all about its propriety.
  • By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the representational practices that sought to establish the naturalness of the body as a metonym for the naturalness of the unified subject were becoming increasingly problematic.
  • The blue tree is one of the most striking pieces of urban art I've seen: totally unexpected, vibrant, vital, and somehow natural despite its complete unnaturalness.
  • All of these improvements rendered possible a closer approach to naturalness of representment than had ever been made before. The Theory of the Theatre
  • Absolutely natural and approachable at all times with never the remotest hint of theatricalism, (unless the careless tossing over his shoulder of one flap of the cape of a cherished brown overcoat might be called theatrical), he is yet so many sided and complex that, without this self-same naturalness, often would be misunderstood. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
  • I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what. King Lear
  • As the main quality which Ellen Terry brought to these roles, in addition to her beauty, grace, and charm, was a seemingly artless naturalness and spontaneity, her success tended to be in ratio to the congruence between her and the part.
  • Only if one accepts the claims of the naturalness of Renaissance artificial perspective can we accept photography as a mimetic representation of the world.
  • This film was original, surprising, oddly real in its emotional content, oddly compelling in its naturalness.
  • Table 10.4 appears to indicate a positive correlation between northerliness and naturalness (indicated by the index, I). Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic
  • Since voice has here been discussed in an objective sort of way, it is fitting to emphasize the importance of what is called naturalness, or more correctly, simplicity. Public Speaking
  • This naturalness, though it may appear like denial of the knowledge-systems of modernist culture, is not retrogression to pre-modernism.
  • And how effective such "unnaturalness" can be in evoking natural passion only those will understand who have realised how ineffective for that purpose is our "naturalness" when we are concerned with Sophocles or Appearances Being Notes of Travel
  • The euphony of Brodsky's verse is irresistible in its ease and naturalness, and one finds oneself remembering lines and stanzas after no more than a couple of readings. A World Fiercely Observed
  • And to those who spoke, as many do today, of the naturalness of war, Gandhi's reply, first expressed in 1909, was that war brutalises men of naturally gentle character and that its path of glory is red with the blood of murder.
  • With one exception, they are spoken texts and so have the spontaneity and naturalness that make for pleasurable reading.
  • At the top end of Britain's food world, which has come to associate organics and therefore ‘naturalness’ with sometimes spurious notions of purity, a professor of bacteriology telling it as it is, may not always be welcome.
  • It's the "unnaturalness" of noises that clues deer into a hunter's presence. Post-gazette.com - News
  • It not only gives you very beautiful pictures of Shetland but it gets down to the life of the crofters and fishermen, and brings the naturalness of it.
  • This at least aesthetic problem with the Higgs mass is called the hierarchy problem and aside from the cosmological constant problem, it is the most important known example of "unnaturalness" in physics. The Reference Frame
  • Here the poet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth and wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shakspeare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage. Roundabout Papers
  • Each school has its own special way of doing things on the night - the naturalness of those graduating warms the heart.
  • S.en from the Grand Canal or from a window opposite, it is pretentious and an interloper, particularly if the slender and distinguished Gothic windows of the apse of S. Gregorio are also visible; seen from any distant enough spot, its dome and towers fall with equal naturalness into the majestic Venetian pageant of full light, or the fairy Venetian mirage of the crepuscle. A Wanderer in Venice
  • Manufacturers now choose to emphasize the naturalness of the ingredients used in their products.
  • Manufacturers now choose to emphasize the naturalness of the ingredients used in their products.
  • Plain and original condition and naturalness are its most major characteristics.
  • he accepted the naturalness of death
  • What charms tourists, however, is its naturalness and simplicity.
  • But the present tendency toward naturalness of representment has, to some extent, exaggerated the importance of stage-management even at the expense of acting. The Theory of the Theatre
  • This cultural hegemony is deeply hostile to the practice of communities that do not begin from the same standards of instrumental rationality; it insists upon the naturalness and indisputability of this sort of rationality, and increasingly affects the concrete practice and the rhetoric of religious communities themselves. The Chatham Lecture: " Convictions, Loyalties and the Secular State", Trinity College, Oxford
  • the spontaneous naturalness of his manner
  • This film was original, surprising, oddly real in its emotional content, oddly compelling in its naturalness.
  • We have not included much documentary work as the realism of documentary has often been used ideologically to reinforce notions of naturalness.
  • The translation sacrifices naturalness for the sake of accuracy.
  • The magic of beauty, the instinct of modesty, the naturalness of self-restraint, the idea of unselfish love, the meaning of duty, the feeling for art and poetry, the craving for religious conceptions and emotions -- all these things awake spontaneously in the unspoiled boy or girl at puberty. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
  • The emphasis on naturalness translates into a way of life characterized by simplicity, calmness, and freedom from the tyranny of desire (e.g., Laozi
  • The naturalness of the added rule determines whether people consider it a natural extension of the mechanic or a "fiddly" addition to the ruleset. Archive 2007-04-01
  • Thus we may compare to orators those composers who ordinarily take the cantus firmus or subject from others and, weaving over it an artful counter - point, draw various melodic lines from it, which often have something dry or labored, in that they lack a certain grace and naturalness, which is the true spice of melody. MUSICAL GENIUS
  • Mr. Pizotti had taught them how to enter properly, and how to take their cues; but to Jess's mind he was not the man to train amateurs to speak their parts with naturalness. The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize
  • I promise you the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state; menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what. Act I. Scene II. King Lear
  • At the top end of Britain's food world, which has come to associate organics and therefore ‘naturalness’ with sometimes spurious notions of purity, a professor of bacteriology telling it as it is, may not always be welcome.
  • Aware, however, that the term naturalness would lead to a deeper disquisition than I here mean to enter upon, I shall take it in its common meaning, as it represents the common aspect of nature. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
  • He had the simplicity and naturalness of the Chinese peasant.
  • Instead of naturalness and spontaneity we have had thirty odd years of media manipulation.
  • Despite being hard-wearing and stain-resistant, it couldn’t get past the granite juggernaut in countertop sales, in part because granite scored points for naturalness. Will the return of the jumpsuit jumpstart that ’70s kitchen?
  • Of course, this naturalness is an illusion (a transcript of thought and conversation would yield mostly a slop of imprecision and repetition), but O'Nan's fingerprints are unobtrusive. A Close Read
  • To watch them emerge, as Ms. Plimpton allows them to do sparingly, and with perfect naturalness, is to recognize the art she brings to this performance. Chances for Hope
  • Such unintentional romances signal the "unnaturalness" of celibacy, for the priest cannot resist the call of love and desire once exposed to the right woman. The Little Professor:
  • Further confusing matters, 'naturalness'-wise, there are women thin for reasons of health or poverty who still watch what they eat for getting fat. What Would Phoebe Do
  • Verse such as this would permit of every rhythmical variation known in English prosody, and through the appeal of its rhythm would offer the dramatist opportunities for emotional effect that prose would not allow him; but at the same time it could be spoken with entire naturalness by actors as ultra-modern as Mme. Nazimova. The Theory of the Theatre
  • Some components of a thriving friendship are honesty, naturalness, thoughtfulness, some common interests. 
  • Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
  • The outstanding characteristics of furniture during the Ming Dynasty were simplicity and naturalness.
  • The emphasis overall is on emotional veracity over ritual, naturalness over pictorialism. Rodney Punt: Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe
  • As Clifford Geertz has argued, in a witty and perceptive essay on Benedict, in itself the book is perhaps better seen as a kind of Swiftian satire, in which the alienness of Japan is used to unsettle US assumptions about the naturalness of their own society, than as a work of 'scienti c' anthropology (Geertz 1988; see also Lummis 1982). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The translation sacrifices naturalness for the sake of accuracy.
  • It also has led us to rethink the notion of naturalness and the rock solid expectation this used to lead to, of finding new physics just beyond the electroweak scale. Two cheers for string theory
  • Any sense of transgression she might have had was now inextricably fused with a sense of the inevitable naturalness of her actions. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • The result was a naturalness that is rarely encountered in the opera house.
  • The "unnaturalness" of same-sex attraction linked it to sin and God's disapproval. Deepak Chopra: The Real Policy is "Don't Talk About It"
  • We have not included much documentary work as the realism of documentary has often been used ideologically to reinforce notions of naturalness.
  • This question of naturalness as opposed to artificiality is not immediately pertinent to our problem, nor is the matter of optimism and pessimism, nor the biologic idea of survival. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • So that it would appear that there is in Rubens 'style of colouring an original incompleteness, destructive in part of the naturalness he would aim at; it is a mannerism, very tolerable in such light works as those lucid and charming pictures by Teniers where all is light and unlaboured; but becoming a weakness where the other labour and the subject are important. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
  • It carries with it connotations both of simplicity and naturalness as well as ill-breeding and clownishness.
  • And not merely in naturalness of manners, but also in moral elevation, in guileless sincerity, in delicate regard for the feelings even of enemies, in true devotion to the good of their fellow-men, especially to the cause of the poor and oppressed, and in earnest religious faith, were these men twin-brothers. Discourse Delivered on the Day of the Funeral of President Lincoln.
  • Today's accusations of unnaturalness, and even of playing God, are likely to come from a secular perspective that has merely replaced God with a reified nature.
  • Any sense of transgression she might have had was now inextricably fused with a sense of the inevitable naturalness of her actions. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music
  • The dramatic spirit of the Italian race seems to communicate itself to the puppets, and they perform their parts with a fidelity to theatrical unnaturalness which is wonderful. Venetian Life
  • Similarly, Alexander McCulloch is posed in a landscape as if to suggest the naturalness of his abstracted, dreamy state.
  • Here the poet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth and wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shakspeare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage. Roundabout Papers
  • The naturalness of this co-embodiment is perhaps the play's most violent re-writing of contemporary colonial conflict. Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb
  • unnaturalness" is due not to the individual but to the relationship itself. Sex and Common-Sense
  • With one exception, they are spoken texts and so have the spontaneity and naturalness that make for pleasurable reading.
  • It was more than the sheer unnaturalness of the strange man (It was a man, wasn't it?)
  • The naturalness and energy in Fields' performances made these films popular with both middle-class and working-class audiences.
  • Her jeans, T-shirt and bare feet enhance the air of naturalness.
  • While I have not changed my position on the unnaturalness and just plain wrongness of getting up early, I can see that there are some advantages in terms of one's productivity and recreation and so on.

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