bareness

The landscape on a spring day has a bracing bareness, which is not without exhilaration.

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

To the right and left the barren mountains reared their enormous baldness to the sun, deserts raised up broadside, as it were, and set on end, that their bareness might be the better seen and known to the world around.

Taquisara 1881

All the economic development of life itself takes on at its end the appearance of an attempt to get rid of the animal squalor and bareness which is what obligatory poverty really means, and to give to man the divine ease and leisure of the gods.

War and strife themselves have been schools of heroism Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

All the economic development of life itself takes on at its end the appearance of an attempt to get rid of the animal squalor and bareness which is what obligatory poverty really means, and to give to man the divine ease and leisure of the gods.

Archive 2008-09-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

This gave his figure a kind of bareness and bleakness which made the accident of meeting it in memory or in apprehension a peculiar concussion; it was deficient in the social drapery commonly muffling, in an overcivilized age, the sharpness of human contacts.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

This gave his figure a kind of bareness and bleakness which made the accident of meeting it in one’s meditations always a sort of shock; it was deficient in the social drapery which muffles the sharpness of human contact.

Chapter XLVII 1917

This gave his figure a kind of bareness and bleakness which made the accident of meeting it in memory or in apprehension a peculiar concussion; it was deficient in the social drapery commonly muffling, in an overcivilized age, the sharpness of human contacts.

The Portrait of a Lady 1881

This gave his figure a kind of bareness and bleakness which made the accident of meeting it in memory or in apprehension a peculiar concussion; it was deficient in the social drapery commonly muffling, in an overcivilized age, the sharpness of human contacts.

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

Hotel life is blank, repetitious, and desultory, with the bareness of new furniture.

The Dress Gary Percesepe 2011

She was so confident in her glorious silky bareness, and her aggression resulted in an unusual flutter between my legs.

Potsdamer Strasse #3 Jasoni 2011