How To Use Patness In A Sentence
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Joanna herself was a little surprised at the movielike patness of it.
The Silicon Mage
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Lewis had been very eloquent in explaining how things should be, even if he wasn't working with the whole story, while Mally had an offhand manner about her that gave her reasoning a little too much patness.
Greenmantle
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Nor are you likely to care, since (A) the plot generated by this premise is wince-makingly artificial and (B) Mr. Marshall can't decide whether to make fun of its patness or play it straight.
Improper Strangers
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While I still find Mr. Bennett's here's-what-happened-to-everybody ending to be neat to the point of outright patness, I bought into the rest of the play this time around and cared about its characters.
The 'Boys' Are Back, but Different
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The absence of spontaneity, the patness of the artistic and intellectual approach, the resulting weakness of the drama brings about the question: how many indelible moments has he created?
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But there are some obvious problems here, including metaphorical patness and the fact that it almost certainly couldn't have happened that way.
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Often there seems to be intelligent association of certain acts or conditions with corresponding sentences, these sometimes occurring with singular patness.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
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The cafés don't really appear as mysterious objects of enquiry, but as a way in to literary-political tropes of stunning familiarity and patness.
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The eloquent statement you have just made, for instance -- it carries all the patness of old conviction.
The Pool in the Desert
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Forgive the movie's patness; relish its many richly lived-in moments.
Not A Season To Be Jolly
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I enjoyed The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, but the minor weaknesses in those films - their occasional obviousness, patness, and preachiness - blossom into the defining characteristics of The Majestic.
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And the outcome doesn't quite work - wobbly credibility giving way to patness.
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Despite a certain patness in the structure (Helen's father learns to be easier on his son as he is learning to be harder on his daughter; Annie's own damaged heart opens in concert with Helen's ability to interact usefully with the world), it's a lovely play, well-written, well-woven, a little sentimental, but not excessively so.
The Miracle Worker
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It is not that we need any sort of patness, and there is much to be said for stories that are not tied up too neatly, but occasionally one encounters an almost wilful irresolution.
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The rush of yelping dogs to the door when aroused by some sound without, and the wailing of sick babies or sleepy children in the laps of mothers seated on the benches, broke the patness of many amusing anecdotes, and the flow of many eloquent periods, from the lips of the man on the platform.
History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919
