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Did his school peers get under his skin: their sense of entitlement, their contempt for the lower orders, their noise, their vulgarity and artlessness?

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2020

A highly orchestrated artlessness is a key part of the Polo brand.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 5, 2019

Even the most artful memoir lays claim to a certain artlessness.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2019

Paradoxically, the effect of Evans’s scrupulous mastery is sometimes achieved by the artlessness of the amateur.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2017

I have likened the artlessness of much of her writing to the sweet monotony of an æolian harp; the comparison returns as expressing also the purely feminine spirit of her inspiration.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer