Example Sentences

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Mr. Barnes uses his neatly attired Englishness as camouflage for narrative experimentation and legerdemain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

His mother later married a British officer and the family relocated to England, where young Stoppard took his stepfather’s surname and “put on Englishness like a coat,” he later said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2025

“Rigor and extravagance, strength in delicacy, Englishness with an Italian accent,” the show notes read.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

One way that Englishness manifests in Dry Cleaning is the gap between the music’s dramatic intensity and the mildness of Shaw’s emotional palette and low-key delivery.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

But I do maintain that the Englishness of Boston has been seriously exaggerated.

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Bennett, Arnold