And no, my Americanness is not “problematic”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Veronique de Rugy is So Anti-American That She’s Not Even an American!] Reference
This brings up the definition of "Americanness" itself. From Wordnik.com. [Frankie Martin: Discovering America] Reference
And this is where the quarrel over Obama's "Americanness" comes in. From Wordnik.com. [Manfred B. Steger: Barack Obama and the Global Imaginary] Reference
So is the broader and vaguer topic of "Americanness.". From Wordnik.com. [Obama Stepping Up Mentions Of His Mother?] Reference
Most French she knows don't mind her Americanness one bit. From Wordnik.com. [Lost In Translation] Reference
Anil, this statement is proof positive of your 'Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [International Lip Synching - Anil Dash] Reference
He has an automatic association of his whiteness to his Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [O.K., so he's not as smart as I thought] Reference
“Cappuccini?” the waiter sniffed, catering to their Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [Georgia’s Kitchen] Reference
When I'm around Peace Corps volunteers I feel unjudged for my Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
We should band togther software geeks and miners and find our common Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [Evidence is mounting against Harris] Reference
An older Biden is an Irish-Catholic who brings much needed Americanness to the ticket. From Wordnik.com. [Biden's "I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do" rant ends with by a plea for a Democratic leader with oratorical powers.] Reference
And Keflezighi's Americanness itself is merely "taking a test and living in our country.". From Wordnik.com. [The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Deporting Dobbs] Reference
As a result, there's 'way too little Italian-Americanness present on the lit-fict shelves. From Wordnik.com. [Writing Life] Reference
He hated people who talked about what Americanness was, what being a true-blue American was. From Wordnik.com. [Will Rogers: A Biography] Reference
Knowing chanson and French symbolist poetry only pushed me over the edge of un-Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: I Choose Sleep] Reference
Clearly Charles Robert Jenkins emerged from his years of ordeal with his Americanness intact. From Wordnik.com. [To Hell and Back] Reference
Verily noticed him at once, because he didn't fit, but it wasn't because of his Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
The essential Americanness of Michelle Obama is rooted in her home, the South Side of Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [American Girl] Reference
In Israel, finding life among people of my faith claustrophobic, I rediscovered my Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [Israel Now] Reference
Though his very Americanness sometimes gets hard to overlook, Cruise manages a fine performance. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Balfour: The Strange Case of Claus Von Stauffenberg and Valkyrie] Reference
What I meant to say was "friendly chit-chats" with Congresspeople to gauge their un-Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [New Bachmann Ad: "I May Not Always Get My Words Right"] Reference
To get to the bottom of Frenchness would be like getting to the bottom of Americanness, I decided. From Wordnik.com. [WEDNESDAY MORNING PAPERS DIDN'T COME or WHY FRANCE WILL NEVER AGAIN BE A WORLD POWER] Reference
For the Hollywood moguls, political affiliation served as a significant touchstone of Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood] Reference
Wilder's sort of Americanness gains its strength and its character through an opposition to the phony. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody's Perfect] Reference
That claim of red-blooded Americanness is a bit hard to reconcile, however, where it concerns the EFCA. From Wordnik.com. [These Are the People Supporting EFCA - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState] Reference
"Surely you don't imagine you were invited here for any reason other than your Americanness," said Verily. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
He had enjoyed looking at her, enjoyed her clean-smelling, smart, crisp Americanness of the great outdoors. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
We noisily and proudly proclaim our Americanness; they shuffle their feet and apologize for their Britishness. From Wordnik.com. [A View From Abroad] Reference
Beth -- I just don't think that Brousseeax's Andouille Kitchen captures the Americanness that McDonalds captures. From Wordnik.com. [The L.A. ban on new fast food restaurants in poor neighborhoods.] Reference
I spend a lot of time here witnessing my Americanness in contrast with German society, so it's always on my mind. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Sometimes I wish people would understand that there is about 5% of my Americanness that I do not wish you give up. From Wordnik.com. [By the way ...] Reference
Meanwhile, some of the 2012 GOP hopefuls have signaled that the 2012 campaign will be about Obama's "Americanness.". From Wordnik.com. [What the right's "American exceptionalism" attack on Obama is really about] Reference
As a rule the concepts of Americanness or Englishness have widened into a nullity that imposes little conscious obligation. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers and Phantoms] Reference
Not a lie should cross our lips, they contend, for it if does the presence of that lie is enough to abrogate our very Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [Does a Leftist’s Lies Matter? Pelosi-nocchio Says no Way! - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState] Reference
Can you imagine Elizabeth Dole or Nancy Reagan or Rosalynn Carter having to get up there and essentially justify their Americanness?. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Michelle Obama's Speech: A High-Tech Groveling] Reference
A company that was dying because of its reliance on the North American market is valuable to Fiat because of that very Americanness. From Wordnik.com. ['Buy American'] Reference
The things I am reading and the things I am writing and the things I am doing are all making me think about America and Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [Black Enough? : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Yet she still managed to convey a middle-of-the-road Americanness. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
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