bareness

How To Use bareness In A Sentence

• He manages to arrest his fall by grabbing ‘the last outlying knot of starved herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness’.
• It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Nineteen Eighty-four
• To the right and left the barren mountains reared their enormous baldness to the sun, deserts raised up broadside, as it were, and set on end, that their bareness might be the better seen and known to the world around. Taquisara
• M. d'Agen's travelling equipment lay about the apartment, but failed to give any but an untidy air to its roomy bareness. A Gentleman of France
• Each time it came, with its soft beauty, its languor of sweetness -- like a word reclining -- it flayed her soul alive, and showed her red, raw bareness. The Woman with the Fan
• This gave his figure a kind of bareness and bleakness which made the accident of meeting it in memory or in apprehension a peculiar concussion; it was deficient in the social drapery commonly muffling, in an overcivilized age, the sharpness of human contacts. The Portrait of a Lady
• I visited your country twice already and found the bareness of the landscape very inviting to big thoughts.
• After peeping outside to make sure that no-one had seen me in my state of bareness, I closed the door behind us.
• Hotel life is blank, repetitious, and desultory, with the bareness of new furniture. The Dress
• The landscape on a spring day has a bracing bareness, which is not without exhilaration. The History of David Grieve