How To Use Knowingness In A Sentence
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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_
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Faith admits to both doubt and unknowingness.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will feel infuriatingly esoteric to some, yet it is its unknowingness that gives it such life.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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They are not re-makes or covers exactly, more like new originals, archetypal versions sung with an unknowingness that defies ownership.
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In a similar vein of unknowingness, we also admit we're not sure what it is about either.
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She narrates the early chapters with an innocence and knowingness that is touching, funny and disturbing.
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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.
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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.
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It may be the knowingness not of incipient sexuality, as some commentators have argued, but rather of being regarded by a camera.
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That ever - enduring, ego - less, omniscient Awareness or Knowingness is the True Self.
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Many times, in the course of the day, alertly and nonchalantly, almost with a quizzical knowingness, Jerry cocked his head at the mainsail when it made sudden swooping movements or slacked and tautened its crashing sheet-gear.
CHAPTER III
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That territory, like Beckett's (u-topic) no-spaces, is a beyond-ness or in-between-ness, a de-territorializing move from the known to a condition of unknowingness.
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The songs Serge Gainsbourg wrote for her are sung with a saucy knowingness.
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But it is dispensed with such style, coupled to such a mixture of absurd silliness and sly knowingness about human nature, that you can't help falling for its charms.
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Demolition is a gorgeously quirky melodic delight with a breathily affecting vocal that is Debbie Harry-ish in its Warholian knowingness.
Mr Little Jeans (No 906)
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their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive
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Then there's the sheer unknowingness of it all.
Times, Sunday Times
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That ever - enduring, ego - less, omniscient Awareness or Knowingness is the True Self.
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Her work for children is a curious mixture of Victorian grotesquerie and post-modern knowingness: a cast of eccentrics with an equally garrulous and intrusive narrator.
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They are not re-makes or covers exactly, more like new originals, archetypal versions sung with an unknowingness that defies ownership.
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The translator explained; still there was a look of perplexed unknowingness.
Times, Sunday Times
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I haven't been able to suspend that feeling I had in Europe of not-knowingness, a sensation that I enjoyed at the time.
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Like a child, this unknowingness will lead to bad behavior, as the child/critic attacks the filmmaker/parent for daring to ask questions for which they will not be given easy answers.
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Tragic, because unknowingness is the human condition, and, in the end, there's no getting around it.
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He is the possessor of secrets, the man of self-discipline; he has a ‘knowingness’ of culture, politics, business.
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(undifferenced) intelligence it is quite impossible to ascribe either all-knowingness or limited knowledge; the pradhâna, on the other hand, because consisting of the three gu/n/as, comprises also in its pradhâna state the element of Goodness which is the cause of all-knowingness.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
