Example Sentences

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That pokiness might be highly advantageous in some circumstances but marginally costly in other, less common circumstances?

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2015

The protagonist, by virtue of his pokiness, arrives home after the mother has gone to bed and eats all the rice pudding.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2015

I have watched seven hours out of the first season's 10, and even as a connoisseur of pokiness, it felt to me that a story, as expressed through character relationships, was slow to form.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2014

This narrative pokiness is redeemed, as usual, by the machine-tooled professionalism of the production, the lavish attention to the mock-medieval costumes and setting, and the mostly crisp, understated acting by the international cast.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2014

He must have some very strong reason for this, to leave his big comfortable flat for the pokiness of the Markovitches'!

From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir