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Revived at the City Center, it suffers less from the ravages of time than from the unsociableness of space: in that vast hall, the play's intimate, childlike mood never quite lassoes the audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

And under the force of this tradition we idealise the rugged and unmanageable, we find something heroic in rough clothes and hands, in bad manners, insensitive behaviour, and unsociableness.

From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

All this apparent unsociableness is merely shyness—the national characteristic of the Englishman.

From Character by Smiles, Samuel

Snuffy was telling me they like him real well, considering his unsociableness.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

An intimacy sprang up between the Rameyevs and Trirodov—that is, to the extent that Trirodov's unsociableness and love of a solitary life permitted him to become intimate.

From The Created Legend by Cournos, John