There is certainly a lack of polish, a kind of rusticity, notwithstanding which you feel him to be a man of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
People built themselves elaborate palaces in the wilderness, and lived in a fantastic kind of rusticity, with every luxury of civilisation included. From Wordnik.com. [The Moneychangers] Reference
Her perfection of idyllic rusticity is hers alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
But what if darkness and rusticity was what he wanted. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
The reason, Carol insisted, is not a whiskered rusticity. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Both the feel and flavor of the bread give it a sense of rusticity. From Wordnik.com. [Semi-Rustic Masa Bread | Baking Bites] Reference
It is a place of vivid colors and endearing, embarrassing rusticity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
But people still made fun of his back-country manners and cultural rusticity. From Wordnik.com. [Cyber Way]
He was country bred, and he had never outgrown a certain rusticity of appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Line War] Reference
It is of capacious dimensions, but is built in a style of unappropriate rusticity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832] Reference
They are lovely enough and well-bred enough to make one forgive some rusticity anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
Capri is, first and foremost, a fatally appealing combination of rusticity and glamour. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Doonan's Guide To Capri] Reference
Urbanity is the state of mind adapted to a city, as rusticity is adapted to the country. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
To achieve the effect of rusticity, artificial waterfalls and grottoes were constructed. From Wordnik.com. [The Grotto at Trianon] Reference
Our innate rusticity makes us accept all this in the spirit in which it is offered to us. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
We had more leisure to consi-der the elegant rusticity of their dresses and ap — pearance. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
To what fearsome figure had this hasty flight transformed the mean little emblem of rusticity?. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Served in an unfussy style without pretense, an attractive combination of refinement and rusticity. From Wordnik.com. [Tuna Toast] Reference
Here he perceived that his rusticity and shallow skimmings placed him under the trained politicians. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
They are in dialect, and the rusticity of their language harmonizes well with their naïve, homely sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
They have a certain bite, rusticity and muscularity about them that translates ultimately into one word: real. From Wordnik.com. [Grab Some Gigondas] Reference
We have no record of rusticity coming upon old pottery after a rain, reporting the fall of a bowl from the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Even the mainstream blended armagnacs retain a hint of rusticity that makes them a pleasant change of pace from cognac. From Wordnik.com. [Cognac's Cousin From Gascony] Reference
This recent addition to the Lincoln Park dining scene combines rusticity with refinement while showcasing amazing Gulf seafood. From Wordnik.com. [American Confidential] Reference
The Devil's pranks have been referred to; Joseph's rusticity also; and the obstinacy of Noah's wife has been obscurely hinted at. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
Inside the skin is about equal portion spiced chicken and corn meal, and the two together become the flavors of simple rusticity. From Wordnik.com. [pio maya now open: 541 humbrillian stars] Reference
But in his face, which was clearly revealed by the flickering flame of the lantern, though he stood in deep shadow, there was no coarse rusticity. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
His work is full of humour and the clean, manly joy of life; and its rusticity is singularly allied to a literary sense and to high technical finish. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
It was noise which he disliked, as distant and muted as it was, but as inclined as he was to romanticize the quaint rusticity around him, he did not yet despise it. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
That nothing may be wanting to give whiteness to the purity of Mary, she is implicitly contrasted with the crude rusticity and gaffer-like obstinacy of her aged husband. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
Its wonders were not so much customary and commonplace luxuries like gold and jewels, but lawns and lakes and faked rusticity -- woods here, open spaces and views there. From Wordnik.com. [Rome 1-1000] Reference
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