searchingness
- a word derived from searching.
Example Sentences
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In the set of a jaw or the searchingness of a squint you could make out the parched rangeland or the old copper pit or the vanishing farm jobs.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
All those artists shared “a vulnerability, and rawness and searchingness that is starting to produce really interesting art,” she added.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
DeMarco’s music is exceedingly pleasant, but it’s often saturated with a jaunty sort of sadness — of love lost, aging, general searchingness.
From Salon • May 7, 2017
He eyed them carelessly enough to all appearance, yet with an inward searchingness which seemed to find what it feared.
From A Prince of Sinners by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
It was a priestly face, saw Monsignor, with all the power and searchingness of one who can deal with living souls; but the face of a fallen priest.
From Dawn of All by Benson, Robert Hugh
