wanness

To this was added a certain wanness and air of fatigue.

"Can this wanness mean that you've been missing me?"

At first, Sarah urges wanness, but she also emphasizes the importance of contact.

The man exuded strength and a sudden wanness that was almost chilling.

The dark robes of mourning and a certain wanness from grief only added to her beauty.

The look in her eyes changed just as he did so, her wanness giving way to outright terror.

He glanced at her, dim in star-glow and wanness off the control panel.

There was a stillness, a wanness between them.

I stepped back, aware that the gray wizard had the slightest hint of wanness about him.

The wanness is only underlined by the touches of solo wind and timpani.

He was stiffening already with doubt and wanness.

He cultivated a wanness in himself; he labored to locate the Canadian within.

They moved quietly, a little wanness on the lips of the children, at Good Friday, feeling the shadow upon their hearts.

Cranston was pale and weak, but his eyes seemed twin fires that pierced through the wanness.

His face was dirty with tears, his eyes had a curious washed look, like the sky after rain, a sort of wanness.

About his large bright eyes that used to be so merry there was a wanness and a restlessness that changed them altogether.

He saw a fish go by, from the wanness on his left to the perspectiveless distances on his right.

Her Imperial Pale and Wanness always wore that silly thing on a ribbon around her neck.

The servant-woman came to look at the child who slept in the shawl, with cheeks flushed hot and red, and a whiteness, a wanness round the eyes.

As a result, there is a wanness about the production that tends to render the plot mechanics as even more labored and transparent than they seem on the page.

Its sincerity and devotion are obvious, but so too is the wanness of Mr. Distler's inspiration, which issues here a series of faceless stylistic impersonations.

Mantel believes her childhood ended at that point, remarking, with uncharacteristic wanness, that her misery was nobody's fault: she was simply "unsuited to being a child."

He had only been a few months a soldier; was young, handsome, and well-made for the service; but a melancholy hung over his countenance, and wanness preyed on his cheeks.

Like Mr. Schwartz's music, Edward MacDowell's "Woodland Sketches," served the dancers by its wanness, providing an obligingly unobtrusive background.

But most laughter tended to fade toward Capitol Hill, where a mood of political wanness seemed to mark the day as the eve of something explosive and all consuming, of a whirlwind to be reaped.