How To Use bluffness In A Sentence
- Having met a good deal of the sea, they knew, like a man who has felt a good deal of the world, that heavy endurance and patient bluffness are safer to get through the waves somehow than sensitive fibre and elegant frame. Springhaven
- ‘We have to win,’ the Scotland coach affirms with a bluffness which only Australians can pull off.
- He was no fan of the writer, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
- Either Mr Huntingdon would take things into his own hands, and, acting with characteristic impetuosity and bluffness, would most likely hinder where he meant to help forward, or else he would fail perhaps to understand and appreciate his son's views and methods of proceeding, and would prevent a successful issue by his impatience or interference. Amos Huntingdon
- The convict population spoke of him as "that — — Frere," and registered vows of vengeance against him, which he laughed — in his bluffness — to scorn. For the term of his natural life
- Thompson was no fan of Orwell, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
- The song arouses even the lethargic Toby, reminding him of love and silently exposing what blocks it - his class-based pride, his manly English bluffness, and his dependence on Maria and his anger at being dependent on her.
- She paid much attention to her ordinary life and held the position of independence and bluffness to her life and then shaped her realistic view: to derive value and significance from the life.
- His eccentricities included a penchant for gigantic pith helmets and a bluffness of expression that bordered on the Python-esque.
- He combines California informality with north-of-England bluffness. February 2006
