Our author informs us, readers, to whom Gradiva has already become interesting as a living personality, that the ill-humoured and repellent glance of the day before has given way to an expression of searching inquisitiveness or curiosity.
She did not resent the kindly inquisitiveness which gleamed at her out of Maria's sharp old eyes, but she had no mind to gratify it at the moment.
There was an inquisitiveness in his gesture that I did not like; and, as far as I could discern his figure, I pronounced him an ill-looking man.
The state of my passions in their progressive career, the inquisitivenessand impatience of my thoughts, appeared to make this determination unavoidable.
Upon this, I ventured to put some ordinary questions, but was quickly informed that inquisitiveness was considered very unwholesome on the sand keys about Cuba!
Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window, but found the stairs within broken, and could not reach the top.
I did not meet with the inquisitiveness of which I have read, and suspect the judgment to have been rashly made.
They were not unduly inquisitive, save when their inquisitiveness seemed to take a political shape; and then it was somewhat aggressive.
For the demon of public inquisitiveness is understood in the Five Towns to be a nocturnal demon.
The devilgrass came irreverently above the wheels and flowed with graceful inquisitiveness over the blades, but the brisk little man pushed heartily and the mechanism revolved with a barely audible clicking.
This is only a remote preliminary, as I told you before, and why you encumbered us with your inquisitiveness is more than I can see.
Levi kept the key, and to all Rolfe's inquisitivenesshe was dumb.
He hated the inquisitiveness of the modern Press, and always feared lest his house should be described and photographed as those of his neighbours constantly were.
The old house overlooked such a wide thoroughfare that the view, while it afforded the repose of movement, scarcely ever aroused a pettyinquisitiveness into the actions of the passers-by.
Conversation between Michael and Mr. Murdoch was not very lively, and Mrs. Murdoch's adjutant inquisitiveness made Michael the more monosyllabic whenever her husband did commit himself to a direct inquiry.
She put the question in a perfectly naive frank manner and seemed to be unconscious of any undue inquisitiveness in it.
Dubois felt great curiosity about us, but he was cunning and did not shew his curiosity; we were reserved without affectation, and his inquisitiveness was at fault.
When he had gone we enjoyed the check she had thus given to the inquisitiveness of our guest, but I told Henriette that, in good conscience, she ought to forgive all those whom she rendered curious, because.
It is difficult to satisfy a Chinese crowd; one may sit or stand before one's room-door in an inn for hours, yet the inquisitiveness remains unabated.
The inquisitiveness of the Chinese is hard to bear with equanimity.
With some of his national inquisitiveness about strangers, the countryman asked his inquirer where he came from.
Her inquisitiveness was unquestionable; but Anna felt that opening her heart to the parson and opening it to his wife were two different things.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inquisitiveness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
