knowingness

How To Use knowingness In A Sentence

• Juliet McMaster explores how in juvenilia in general the presence of "sexual knowingness in a child, especially a girl" is usually met with "resistance": "[w] riting and doing it are seen as perilously close, although the same assumption would not apply in the case of subjects less loaded" ( "Virginal Representations" 304-5, close window 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
• Faith admits to both doubt and unknowingness. Times, Sunday Times
• It will feel infuriatingly esoteric to some, yet it is its unknowingness that gives it such life. Times, Sunday Times
• Because of this knowingness , regardless of what the person had done, you are able to tolerate his weaknesses and see his potential of what he can become.
• They are not re-makes or covers exactly, more like new originals, archetypal versions sung with an unknowingness that defies ownership.
• In a similar vein of unknowingness, we also admit we're not sure what it is about either.
• She narrates the early chapters with an innocence and knowingness that is touching, funny and disturbing.
• When they summon up the realm of the familiar, you step into an entirely new world with much knowingness or willingness yet find it hard to fathom their essential meaning.
• But, while she stares straight ahead - aloof, resigned - he diverts his gaze momentarily from the road to engage us with a look of such vulpine knowingness that we begin to wonder just what exactly he has in mind.
• It may be the knowingness not of incipient sexuality, as some commentators have argued, but rather of being regarded by a camera.