The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated.
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Examples for "tameness "
Examples for "tameness "
1 If in his rural designs there is sameness and tameness ; if often
2 An innate tameness was the key characteristic that allowed domestication to develop.
3 So in spite of its apparent tameness the land held a mystery.
4 The turgidity and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.
5 I have encouraged virulence by my tameness . - Yet tame I will still be.
1 Slowly, it becomes apparent that this is going to be an exercise in world-class vapidity .
2 Its pettiness, its routine, its vapidity , its gossip, all oppress one like a hideous nightmare.
3 Despite the posturing of vapidity , Siobhan was clever.
4 The eminent criminal novel is taken as a tonic by minds satiated with the vapidity of fashionable fiction.
5 The authoritative vapidity of this reacted with Dixon's general feeling of peevish regret and made him begin to talk fast.
1 If a reader new to the classics opened Thucydides, his first impression would probably be one of jejuneness , of baldness.
2 But if they were crude, they were shrewd-orso she thought them; and the jejuneness was, to her mind, chiefly in the dressing of them.
1 Even as she spoke, Olive realized the vapidness of her words and was ashamed of them.
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