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Coogan does ample justice to Stan’s eyebrows, which, in their rise and fall, are a more sensitive guide to the utterness of his bewilderment than the celebrated scratching of his scalp.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 28, 2018

The marshes stretched before me bare and gray, with here and there a flush of evening color, serving but to emphasize their utterness of desolation.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

I have no patience to make phrases about it—for the moment it seems utterness of doubt and of loss.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

In the utterness of the self-abnegation of the genuine Protestant there is something approaching the heroic.

From Short Studies on Great Subjects by Froude, James Anthony

You who have never beheld these things know not the utterness of loneliness.

From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Leonowens, Anna Harriette