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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

I am button-holed at every corner, and put through a cross-examination, to which Holt's or Bingham's had no searchingness: "How did Mrs. Suratt die?"

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred

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)