How to Use artless in a Sentence

artless

adjective

• Her simple artless charm won us over instantly.
• Polpette were artless spheres of cooked ground beef without enough salt or spice to give them life.
  — Bill Addison, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• Is there any better metaphor in an otherwise artless time?
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 21 Apr. 2017
• The caricature of the artless American, like that of the ambassador, has its basis in truth.
  — Peter Savodnik, The Hive, 20 July 2017
• The diction is simple, the writing artless; the world of the novel, told in a basic third-person voice, claustrophobic.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2019
• Parcellin’s mostly black-and-white film revisits them, its artless, propulsive style like that of the music itself.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• At all times, Mr. Lynch’s paintings look breathless, effortless and artless.
  — Martha Schwendener and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 4 May 2017
• The words were printed on the magazine’s pages, strangely artless and awkward in their appearance, next to images of Bourgeois’s sculptural work.
  — Vogue, 29 Sep. 2017
• On Tuesday, the small-screen vista was limited to artless shots of House impeachment managers and Mr. Trump’s lawyers at their lecterns, with an occasional overhead glimpse of the chamber thrown in.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2020
• The new group moved into a three-bedroom house in Maidenhead and began the sort of rigorous yet artless performance training that’s now a hallmark of the pop-band origin story.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• These artless snapshots annoy Noah, the grandson of a famous photographer.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• The lyrics are as unadorned as her pole-work is impressive, a juxtaposition of plain, artless language and strenuous performance.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 20 June 2019
• Its host—once the jerk who dismissed Khizr Khan as a Democratic Party prop—now scans as artless, a little oafish, congenitally straight-shooting, inherently trustworthy.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
• The musical result is at once direct and accessible, tonal and melodic, sophisticated and artless.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
• At 90 minutes or less, this movie’s flat acting, choppy conversations, artless cinematography and sub-David Lynch surrealism would be easy to dismiss.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• On a frigid day where bright sunshine belied the miserable baseball conditions, a trio of timers positioned around the field at Nationals Park provided historic accompaniment to an artless struggle.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• In reality, these countries are hardly exemplars, as suggested by the American intellectual and pundit class, but rather are flawed places unlikely to displace America’s global leadership, even under the artless Trump.
  — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 18 June 2017
• But once, an artist residency meant something very different: being embedded squarely within regular life, an experience meant both to inspire artists and to infuse what were seen as artless environments with creativity.
  — Gisela Williams, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017

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