woodenness
IPA: wˈʊdʌnnʌs
noun
- The state of being wooden (often in a figurative sense).
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Examples of "woodenness" in Sentences
- What reader of novels has not felt the "woodenness" of this mode of telling?
- Also, do not mock my woodenness in the graduation photo--relaxed scholarly owl stance was not taught in advance!
- The apathy and "woodenness" of children under average modes of pedagogy is apparent to anyone who is interested enough to observe.
- I spent more of my time wincing at the woodenness of the prose than following the story, and without "story" a novel like Little Children has nothing.
- Mr. Gryzlov, 61 years old, long embodied the woodenness and sense of entitlement of Russia's ruling party under Mr. Putin, and once famously remarked that Parliament was "no place for discussion."
- Even Seurat, whose famous "Sunday on the Grande Jatte" has never ceased to disappoint me because of its woodenness, is forgiven, in my eyes - for the exhibition has, instead, a number his studies, or études, for that fabled composition.
- Even Seurat, whose famous "Sunday on the Grande Jatte" has never ceased to disappoint me because of its woodenness, is forgiven, in my eyes - for the exhibition has, instead, a number his studies, or études, for that fabled composition.
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