Example Sentences

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Nobody is going to confuse “The Edge of Seventeen” for a Dardennes-like docudrama, but the film combines the accessibility of a Hollywood comedy with the unromantic bleariness of a grey fall afternoon.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2019

“I lost track of what floor we’re on. Where’s the …?” His bleariness has always been a considerable part of his charm: that sleepy Texan drawl, that quizzical gaze, half-amazed and half-sceptical.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2017

I know from the worn-out hospital bag, the refusal to take off her metallic earrings until the last second, the bleariness, that her story has more treatments, more suffering.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2015

The tone wavers between faux-intimacy and cue-card bleariness.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2014