| 单词 | knowingness |
| 例句 | And he shrank from the expression in the boy s eyes, from his knowingness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And then I remember that I did the flishing last night and the sprinkling over all the heads the knowingness of the hungry childrens. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z On late-night television, it functions as a kind of sarcasm and knowingness, a cosmopolitan eye roll at the absurdity of life. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The knowingness of contemporary life is not the same thing as wisdom. Celibacy in an intensively sexualised world is a curious anomaly 2013-03-04T08:00:19Z The acquisition and preservation of such knowingness is the essential principle of the Twitterverse. Seeking Out Peer Pressure 2013-05-03T23:12:03Z Part of her appeal is the way she wraps up her star power in a blanket of knowingness so dry that it almost makes you forget about the way she looks. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z Loaded with the knowingness of a cool older sister who sneaks into the city from the suburbs, Halsey’s lyrics connected even before they were set to music. Halsey, With ‘Badlands,’ Is Moving Fast to Share a Secret Language 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z In other words, it is not self-conscious knowingness that drives “Rango” but rather a quirky and sincere enthusiasm for all the strange stuff that has piled up in the filmmakers’ heads over the years. | 'Rango': There?s a New Sheriff in Town, and He?s a Rootin?-Tootin? Reptile 2011-03-03T23:01:04Z Equally appalling is the cozy knowingness with which the Book Review assumes one has bought heaps of expensive books one might read and keeps them piled on that night stand. The Cotton Gin, Squirrel Hill and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The funniest parts of these jokes are in the subtext, how Tomlinson performs knowingness in a way that can be truly clueless. Taylor Tomlinson: A Comic With the Confidence of a Star 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z There's a knowingness to the stupidity, and a charm in Karl grappling with thoughts. TV review: An Idiot Abroad 2012-12-15T08:00:01Z She is known for rarely raising its volume higher than an ASMR-triggering whisper, but there’s also a certain taunting knowingness in its tone. Billie Eilish’s Uneasy View From the Top 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z In places this is done with a certain knowingness that makes it seem pleasingly arch – a nod to the multiple modern versions of the Bard. The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z But there is, somehow, a tension to all this, a knowingness, that keeps the pages turning. Where to Have Your Existential Crisis: Ann Arbor or Rome? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z One of this novel's aspects I love is that the young narrator is innocent and open to experience, not muffled up in the slightly stuffy knowingness of Wyndham's other male narrators. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z It reveals all the hallmarks and acquired craft skills of the creative writing course: a persistent blandness, an incorruptible awareness of political correctness, but also a kind of defensive knowingness. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker – review 2012-07-13T21:54:01Z Through a combination of interviews, analysis and narrative, Neyfakh offers an intriguing profile of an artist working between obscurity and fame, corniness and knowingness. ‘The Next Next Level’ by Leon Neyfakh: a tale of rap and friendship 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s an inappropriate question, a question that misapprehends the knowingness and deliberate artifice of contemporary media. How Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley spawned Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly and all the horrors of TV news 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The was one of the first outlets to be described with the now-common adjective “snarky,” but although sarcasm and knowingness were part of its formula, there was much more to it than that. Peter W. Kaplan, A Consummate Editor’s Editor 2013-11-30T20:33:25Z The polished knowingness and merrily slick timing of these determinedly cute, brilliantly skilled pranksters backfires. Review: Twyla Tharp’s Choreography Celebrated to Bach and Jazz 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Its combination of knowingness and comic violence suggests a Coen brothers movie shorn of philosophical and formal rigor. Review: ‘The Nice Guys’ Pairs Gosling and Crowe as Slapstick Detectives 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z But Whack’s is the sort of exercise that makes us feel curious, not cheated; her canny adaptation to the constraints of social media is not without knowingness or built-in critique. Tierra Whack Stretches the Limits of One-Minute Songs 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z It's a neat parallel, and one that Melody plays with a mixture of inconsequential charm and sly knowingness in a piece that is both startlingly bonkers and utterly ordinary at the same time. Major Tom – review 2013-05-12T14:00:21Z Winehouse's performances, on the other hand, were so heartfelt they chafed against the knowingness of the arrangements, the clever stylistic references in Back To Black's sound. A losing game 2011-07-24T18:15:01Z The bloggers’ knowingness infected the humor on the whole, but hearing the bloggers’ manifesto read in an old-lady voice affectingly brought home the intergenerational divide. Joyce Unleashed Features SuperGroup and Laurie Berg 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z In an age of widespread insider gossip and the collective knowingness of social media, nakedly propagandistic cinema also might have seemed awkward and embarrassing. Why Hollywood's response to 9/11 involved Harry Potter and Spider-Man 2011-09-09T18:51:00Z "I'm embarrassed by the knowingness of that review," Mr. Pinckney said Tuesday. ArtsBeat: Old Friends Help New York Review Celebrate 50 Years 2013-02-06T18:26:41Z In “Once Upon a Time,” when a child actress, played by Julia Butters with an uncanny knowingness, tells Rick “That’s the best acting I’ve ever seen,” Rick, caught by surprise, tears up. Quentin Tarantino's artful pulp: On alchemy, fantasy and "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Their work was accessible, even if it required a certain knowingness on the part of the viewer, who could feel hip for being in on the joke. Mark Rothko and Selling Out in the Art World 2010-03-26T20:43:00Z There is a difference between knowingness and knowledge, but what is it? James Wood: Zia Haider Rahman’s Dazzling “In the Light of What We Know” 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The movie has a didactic knowingness that undercuts suspense, and even curiosity, at every turn. Tarzan Cannot Be Rebooted 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z As the illiterate child of a house of ill-repute, Sue is well educated in the ways of the world, so it seems like a comment on different sorts of knowingness. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z There are moments when this approach — which combines fussy, facetious knowingness with naïve, omnivorous enthusiasm — pays off nicely. Movie Review: In ‘The Lone Ranger,’ Tonto Takes Center Stage 2013-07-02T17:30:46Z In Casey, she could also practice the knowingness that makes her such a superb audience surrogate. In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Lizzy Caplan Makes a Mess 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In bad young poets, knowingness is to knowledge what truthiness is to truth, as Mr. Robbins’s lesser stuff makes plain. Books of The Times: ‘Alien vs. Predator,’ a Book of Poetry by Michael Robbins 2012-05-23T21:30:10Z The mix of perturbing imagery and self-conscious knowingness leads to awkward uncertainties of mood from start to finish. Carmen ? review 2011-01-18T21:30:00Z They're not particularly older or wiser; they just look at each other without knowingness — which, at 12, is exactly how it should be. 'Moonrise Kingdom' is charmingly oddball and beautifully innocent 2012-06-07T20:42:03Z Of course, like every other successful reality show, knowingness has crept in. Why Come Dine With Me is a gem 2010-06-03T09:40:00Z But on its own terms it gradually works for this quirky, defiantly literary play, especially when Turner rises out of grief and wields a knowingness that can be tremendously impressive. Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z And the absurdity of the story lines, a general knowingness to the characters and oddball figures like the eternally freaked-out Garfield parody Bill the Cat, kept it from becoming cutesy. Bewildered in “Bloom County”: How its long hiatus transformed the still-beloved comic 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Tall, elegant and determined with an acerbic sense of humour, she brought a fresh knowingness to her roles. Obituary: Lauren Bacall 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z It's a slight piece, but not without its subtleties: it successfully combines a layered knowingness with a sweet, unaffected directness. Lovers Walk 2010-09-23T22:30:00Z But this kind of knowingness is as naïve as the obliviousness it critiques. Review: ‘Normal’ Looks Into the Abyss and Finds the Future 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Hall, who was twenty-three at the time, exquisitely conveyed the sometimes tremulous combination of knowingness and naïveté that characterizes Rosalind, Shakespeare’s most winning comic heroine. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The friction between knowingness and not knowing ignites sparks. The mystery of an artist only deepens: The remarkable drawings of Martín Ramírez at DTLA's new museum 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z “I just had this, like, stupid little knowingness,” she said, that she would find her way in. Kelsea Ballerini Is Ready for Lift Off 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z This is another source of the genre’s appeal: in a culture defined by knowingness and ironic distance, genuine surprise is increasingly rare — a spiritual luxury that brings us close to something ancient. Riff: Reaction Videos as Anthropological Study of America 2011-11-27T04:00:09Z The film is an elegantly realized movie that virtually flaunts its production values, its suave sophistication, its simultaneous knowingness regarding its own messages and its own techniques. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z They are occasionally hammy but generally find the sweet spot between committed performance and goofy knowingness. ‘Drunk History’ and ‘Nathan for You’ Begin Season 2 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Wallace saw in this movement a process of gradual but inexorable isolation, whereby the knowingness and self-referentiality of postmodernism was slowly absorbed into popular culture. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z But what really made Tucker exceptional was her voice: a husky alto that, from the beginning, had a knowingness to it, honed sharp. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z But my favorite member of the entourage is Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who brings a knowingness and a killer sense of comic timing to the role of Destiny, one of Jocelyn’s managers. ‘The Idol’ Is Ending Sunday. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The jester was a revelation…that sense of knowingness always there, underneath a façade of madness and anarchy. Stage reader review roundup: your take on Damned by Despair and This House 2012-10-12T15:11:55Z It creates a directness and a knowingness that is more sensuous than erotic, even when the subject is a slightly drunken bacchante. She Painted Marie Antoinette (and Escaped the Guillotine) 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Its salty humor and insistent pop culture knowingness was fun for a minute, before the sequels got nudging and formulaic. ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Review: Swashbuckling Again 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z He was already a father figure to some students and a cherished ally of other doctoral candidates, who rejoiced in his knowingness, acerbic wit, his tone of unshakable, indifferent self-confidence, and his charisma. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z Call it 'the Tarantino Tense' – neither quite the past nor quite the present, where both past and present mingle behind the red-rope of genre knowingness and technological facility. Hollywood's terrible track record with historical dramas labours on 2013-07-08T12:31:18Z Her stage assurance too often registers as an undifferentiated and blasé knowingness. Dance Review: When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited 2011-05-12T22:00:13Z And when his hand caressed me – oh, the knowingness of those caresses – I melted. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z That knowingness, though, was nothing but a hollow boast against the daily, dogged and increasingly demeaning horrors of addiction. Amy Winehouse joins the list of rock stars ravaged by drugs 2011-07-23T21:11:42Z Camp, which is meant to be a way to survive, is commodified, becomes just another signifier of knowingness, no longer a radical aesthetic at all. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z Set in the Hamptons and very loosely based on “The Count of Monte Cristo,” this nighttime soap mixed the campy melodrama of “Dynasty” with the chic knowingness of “Gossip Girl.” 2011 TV: ?Homeland,? ?Parks and Recreation,? ?The Hour? 2011-12-17T18:10:32Z Here, Freiman scratches at the difference between knowing and knowingness, and how our blind spots can subsume our personality. A 'canceled' author falls for a cringe icon in 'The Book of Ayn' (Rand, of course) 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z When I got this information from my parents, it was a confirmation that I’m not crazy and about my own sense of knowingness. How a family secret changed Kerry Washington's life 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z This knowingness is very maternal, and is cast over all of these characters like a blanket, or like signal fires themselves. Dani Shapiro on secrets, spirituality and ‘Signal Fires’ 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Strangers smiled and nodded with looks of knowingness as they listened to my mother’s memories. Opinion | My mother fled Ukraine in World War II. She says this is worse. 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Often it’s held in check by other qualities: playfulness, knowingness, sardonic wit, plaintive sorrow, a joy in being alive. Sidney Poitier was more than a symbol. He was one of the great movie stars, full stop 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z The songs had no intellectual take on the emotions they portrayed, no wry knowingness. Perspective | Taylor Swift makes her lyrics feel like diary pages. We should read them as art. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Her voice more fragile than before, she nevertheless manifests firm knowingness. The surprising story of how ABBA became beloved gay icons 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z I just feel in that sentence the delight of the knowingness, because she was in an incredibly exclusive place... The women of 'Impeachment' explained: Linda Tripp and Kathleen Willey 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Yet, at the age of 10, he awoke one night with a “knowingness” that his grandmother was going to pass away. Tyler Henry the Hollywood Medium embraces skepticism and spreads hope | Provided by Snoqualmie Casino 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Tom Barrack snowed them, by projecting an earnestness and a cocksure confidence in his own knowingness that television finds irresistible. Column: Tom Barrack's willing enabler — TV news 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z And yet it radiated tension, knowingness and perhaps even a little drama — between mother and daughter, subject and artist. The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z But Smith turns our knowingness around on us by ending the story in a way that is both specific and unpredictable, as in the aftermath the men’s identities are erased. Zadie Smith serves up a provocative, deeply humanistic collection 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The knowingness that marked her vocal art extended seamlessly to her public conduct. 'A majestic figure in every sense' – stars remember Jessye Norman 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In a world that prizes a pose of exhausted knowingness, children’s fiction allows itself the unsophisticated stance of awe. Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The film benefits from committed, laser-focused performances from DiCaprio and Pitt, the latter of whom especially brings a sly knowingness to the subtleties of playing second banana. Review | Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is a misty-eyed valentine to La La Land — with just a touch of B-movie gore 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z To send electrical pulses along the channels of her brain, inciting her amygdala to knowingness, to consciousness? A billion dots of light 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z But what is wonderful about the book is exactly this counterpoint of novelist and essayist, of innocence and knowingness. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z There’s a knowingness in the laugh he gets from the audience this time, too. ‘It's the book that gave me freedom’: Michael Ondaatje on The English Patient 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The plan, I guess, is to make the audience feel momentarily smart, with a jolt of knowingness, the only hitch being that the film itself is as mindless as anything produced in the Hasselhovian era. Can “Baywatch” Fill the Trunks of the Original? 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Although her actual husbands included the actor George Sanders and the hotelier Conrad Hilton, she lived in a world of self-parody, gossip and knowingness about the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Zsa Zsa Gabor knew femininity was a performance. She played it perfectly | Suzanne Moore 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z She was smiling broadly now, beaming with knowingness. Melania Trump, Conspiracy Theorist 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z From the knowingness comes another excellence of “In America,” its cat’s cradle of meanings. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z But even in those more manic roles, there was always a sly knowingness to his work that did resonate at certain moments. Here’s to the Milder Gene Wilder 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Like Greene, Berlinski enjoys the instant advantage of shared knowingness: “He had that concentrated attention for which a man in trouble pays ten dollars a minute.” Imagining Haiti’s Inner Life 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z This is le Carre territory, spies fighting over budget allocations and chafing under misguided orders, and Hoffman draws it with the same open-eyed knowingness. The Russian spy right in Moscow’s midst, serving the Americans 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z One grows heartily tired of ignorant vulgarians such as Bill Maher pretending to careful deliberation, only to gush the primitive prejudices that pass for knowingness in the cultural mainstream. Here’s how we defeat the vulgarians: Bill Maher, wrong-headed neocons, and the real answer to “radical Islam” 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Tech gurus have for some time been predicting the Internet of Things, the wiring together of all our devices to create “ambient intelligence”—an unseen fog of digital knowingness. We Know How You Feel 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z In a way, that silence protects me, because I worry that airing these issues enables a smug knowingness, a devouring curiosity: “Did you hear about all those self-hating slit-eyed chinks? So sad!” From eyelids to skin tone, beauty isn't always about 'looking white' 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, this literary efficiency works to neutralize one of Berlinski’s strengths; the authority of knowledge slides into the authority of knowingness. Imagining Haiti’s Inner Life 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z No, the humor, such as it is, springs forth from the goofy knowingness somehow still ascendant in the age of social media. Jimmy Fallon’s Clickbait Addiction 2014-04-02T21:37:30Z It doesn't really matter if immortality is conceived of as a personalised heaven - one woman's Samite shroud and harp practice is another man's sherbert and multitudinous virgins - or an impersonal realm of manifold knowingness. Why we banish the words of the dead 2013-12-06T16:30:06Z If he were less obscenely brilliant, the nonchalant knowingness that also defines him would not exist – and even so, nonchalance is an aspect of cool, not a synonym. From Viv Richards to, um, Andy Murray 2013-03-01T11:49:51Z It was just a knowingness that people are the same in Chicago as they are in Alabama as they are in Rhode Island as they are in Seattle,” Ms. Winfrey said. Oprah Winfrey Seeks to Bolster a Flagging Empire 2012-11-25T22:18:20Z But just like the Austin Powers parodies, such knowingness recognises that Bond is essentially a product of the early days of mass consumerism. The sexual health of James Bond 2012-10-04T09:19:23Z I only have in mind the alternative that is usually presented to us, conscious ignorance or a kind of knowingness. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z On the way, Henry told me a great deal about Madam Modjeska with that same air of knowingness which fitted so oddly with his assumption of the model husband. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z In a niched-up world, Mr. Williams is someone we all seem to hold in common, not because he is Uncle Walt, but because he reflects an appealing mash-up of earnestness and knowingness. Media Equation: Brian Williams Adds a Newsmagazine to His Portfolio 2011-10-16T22:11:53Z She has hitherto prided herself on her mental acumen and on her knowingness. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z The little man had lost in a moment his glib assurance, his knowingness about the pathways of the soul. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z It is a bid to capture a generation more accustomed to the special effects wizardry of Harry Potter, the smart-alecky knowingness of “Kung Fu Panda” and the fast pace of “Cars 2.” The Real Winnie the Pooh Returns to the Hundred Acre Wood 2011-07-15T00:52:24Z I recall that he displayed a particular knowingness about what he styled "the attractions." A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Much of the credit for this remarkable transubstantiation goes to longtime producer and co-host Brooke Gladstone, who consistently strikes the right balance between knowingness and idealism. Ed Schultz calls Laura Ingraham a "talk slut" 2011-05-25T20:40:00Z Or perhaps it was the knowingness of a grown child seeing his parent as irredeemably human. Magazine Preview: Obama?s Young Mother Abroad 2011-04-20T14:59:19Z This spirit, which creates for itself an atmosphere hard to describe, compounded as it is of universal knowingness, ironic indirection, delicately intellectual emotion, and faintly emotional intellectuality—this spirit is quite alien to childhood. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z This knowingness is not quite what it seems to be. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Hugh Grant looking down the police lens for his post-Divine Brown mugshot with a perfect mixture of resignation, contempt and still, somewhere behind the eyes, an attractively wry knowingness that suggested he would survive. When will wealthy people like Conrad Black learn to avoid fancy dress at all costs? 2010-07-21T07:00:00Z "Oh, did you?" said Cashel, with a very peculiar look of knowingness. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) I'm pleased to have met up with this school, though, for it's allers comforting to run across fresh proofs of my friend old Kite Roberson's knowingness. Harper's Round Table, May 7, 1895 He always wore a light-coloured tweed suit, and a knitted tie of about ten different colours, and his aquiline nose and jaunty manner gave him an air of knowingness which she much appreciated. Coquette How little there was on the surface of Scott of the literary keenness, subtlety, knowingness of later producers, and yet how far his contribution surpasses theirs in real human pathos and suggestiveness! Whitman A Study Whitney’s knowing smile increased in its quality of knowingness and he spoke with an inflection that was quite baffling. Officer 666 The first half of this statement I had from the Boss himself; the second, I base on Khalid’s knowingness and suspicion. The Book of Khalid There is, in this work of Alexander the younger, plenty of imitation, of convention, of that would-be knowingness which is the most amusing form of ignorance, etc., etc. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The two conspirators eyed one another slyly, smiled with a quaint knowingness, and resumed their supper in silence. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies They pile up local colour till your brain reels, and they assume a sort of man-of-the-wide-world "knowingness" which is extremely unpleasant. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The appearance of knowingness is on their side, of na�vet� and gullibility on his. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Suddenly, as if he had dropped from one of the wide spreading trees, a very fat boy, with a shining face and a general air of "knowingness," appeared before them. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter "That just shows how much you know," said Muggridge, with an air of great knowingness. Paul the Courageous As the hands of the sisters touched, Gertrude looked up quickly: there was an indescribable expression of thoughtfulness, knowingness, and kindliness on her face. The Goose Man Dash was a black and white spaniel, who was generally considered a fairly clever dog, but not suspected of possessing any unusual amount of knowingness. Stories of Animal Sagacity He caught up her bag, and she followed him out, with a blush over her shoulder for the janitress, who smiled after her with mistaken knowingness. The Coast of Bohemia "Those who give the blacksmith most work seldom do," said the boy, tipping him a wink expressive of a degree of indefinite knowingness, not uninteresting to consider in one of his years. The Confidence-Man “That ain’t no answer,” said the Bloater, with a knowing smile, the knowingness of which consisted chiefly in the corners of the mouth being turned down instead of up. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade Well, I must say, the vulpine intellect, with its knowingness, 452its alertness and expertness in ‘detecting hypocrites,’ seems to me a rather sorry business. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Here Jack whistled low, shut one eye with deep knowingness, and grinned behind his bell-crown. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times A girl with a bonnet full of braids and roses, and a look of general knowingness, started up close at Miss Henderson's side, and interposed. Faith Gartney's Girlhood The woman was adroit in the engagement of domestics, and there were dinners certainly, and, possibly, good ones, but the knowingness of it all was wanting. A Man and a Woman She was as hurt by the revelation of this vast breach in her omniscience as the bright twang of knowingness in her voice had told him she would be. The Judge Does not the wolf, when he has need to defend his life or take that of another, display as much knowingness as the fox? The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney It was made the worse by the fact that they all tried to show, off a little before the newcomer, to prove their superiority and extreme knowingness to him. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Some who were with women made conversation jocosely, putting on travesties of military airs, and a knowingness of expression that might have put the wisdom of the Sphinx to shame. Flames The head is admirable; it is so full of playfulness and of doggish knowingness.' Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I "The grossest ignorance does not disgust me like this ignorant knowingness." Emerson and Other Essays Much concerned about wisdom as Theodore Dreiser is, he almost wholly lacks the dexterous knowingness which has marked the mass of fiction in the age of O. Henry. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) The latter is a grizzled personage, very bowed as to back, and baggy as to breeches, but in his manner combining oracular "knowingness" and deferential plausibility in a remarkable degree. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 8, 1890 He had an expression of cunning and knowingness, which induced his people, when young, to think he resembled the muskrat, just rising from the water, after a dive. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers The competitive, towny culture, the queer up-to-date commercial knowingness with which we are so busy coating ourselves simply will not stick to him. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest His life taught the lesson that power, however energetically wielded, without beneficence, is fatal to its possessor and its subjects; and that knowledge, or knowingness, without goodness, is but the incarnate principle of Evil. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance It shifts from passion to farce, from satire to lustrous beauty, from impudent knowingness to pathetic youthful humility. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) He put his arm about her waist; it was a large, strong, sophisticated arm, and very agreeable; he grinned at her with a devastating knowingness, while Kennicott glowed inanely. Main Street She made up her mind, with a canny knowingness, that there should be no presents this time, no theater invitations, no lunches or dinners. Fanny Herself A bookmaker roars "10 to 1 Bendemeer;" he suddenly fishes out a sovereign of his own—and he hasn't money to spare, for all his knowingness—and puts it on Bendemeer. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories He was a man of an alert Yankee type, with waxed blond mustache and eye-glasses; he was evidently to be classed among those who have exchanged their country honesty for a veneer of city knowingness. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life To cross that morass safely required a touch on tussocks and an upbounding aside, a zig-zag exhibition of great strength and knowingness and recklessness. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man It stands out by itself from all the others,—the sharp, critical knowingness, sparkling with puns, of à Beckett,—the inimitable, wise, easy, playful, worldly, social sketch of Thackeray. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics It is this gnosis, or knowingness, which the Apostle says puffeth up,—not knowledge, as we translate it. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ah!" he said, with a look of knowingness, "you girls don't see each other with the same eyes as we. Mary Marston He got up with the same grin upon his features,—not a grin of simplicity, but intimating knowingness. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 And whatever it was you never could tell had brought to Virginia's girlish face the tender knowingness of the face of a woman. Lifted Masks; stories He grinned with an air of knowingness, and seemed rather disconcerted that Ida did not return his smile. At Love's Cost She said this with immense knowingness in her manner as she squeezed the astonished man to her heart. The Iron Game A Tale of the War The "knowingness" of some of our children on subjects connected with dress is simply appalling. A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household "Well done, little 'un," said Mr. Tulliver, laughing, while Tom felt rather disgusted with Maggie's knowingness, though beyond measure cheerful at the thought that she was going to stay with him. The Mill on the Floss The smartness and knowingness and a certain hardness or keenness of our city youths,—there was no trace of it at all in this young Cockney. Winter Sunshine The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness. Essays — Second Series Mr. Traill felt a sudden access of warm liking for the attractive little scrap of knowingness and pluck. Greyfriars Bobby Little elf, or imp; though young, already withered; with its withered air of premature vice, of knowingness, of completed elf-hood: useful in various emergencies. The French Revolution There came before his memory the image of a boy's face, a swarthy little boy, grinning, grinning with a horrible knowingness and pointing his finger—an accusing finger. Soul of a Bishop |
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