It is clear that there was a certain rusticity about Crabbe; and his politics, such as they were, had been formed in a different school from that of the county families.
In summer, the white walls of the cottage part are covered with roses and creeping plants, and there is an air of order and tasteful rusticityabout the whole; even to the neat coble pavement which borders the wayside.
As the bullace ideal is to the plum ideal, so is the ideal of English rusticity to the ideal of human nature.
Let us take English rusticity as a particular type of human nature,--the equivalent of bullacehood for the purpose of argument.
With this exception, however, the affair was in little distinguishable from ordinary holiday sports, and it certainly lacked the necessary rusticity to suggest any strong sympathy with the rural festival of the "olden time.
Sidney had the good sense to feel that it was unsophisticated sentiment rather than rusticity of phrase that befitted such themes.
But even to the last he did not quite shake off the blunt rusticity of phrase that was habitual with the generation that preceded him.
Without a ruse, he would never have escaped from this world of light-green Lovat tweeds, of fashionable rusticity and carefully pressed trousers.
Apologizing for the rusticity of his taste, he owned his admiration of the boors and the lowly damsels, as they reminded him of some such, the familiars of his childhood in Wales.
From his luxurious villa the poet could indulge his reverie on the simplerusticity of his ancestors or the landscapes famous in the scenery of Greek song.
The infatuation of some city women in their wretched imitation of those at court is more offensive than the coarseness of the women of the people and the rusticity of country-women, since it is a mixture of both, and of affectation as well.
Here rusticity and frankness show themselves ingenuously; there a malignant and corrupt disposition lies hidden under a veneer of politeness.
His mortification at having thus exposed his dull rusticity was swallowed up in conjectures as to just what her tolerant familiarity with such things involved.
Our innate rusticity makes us accept all this in the spirit in which it is offered to us.
Urbanity is the state of mind adapted to a city, as rusticity is adapted to the country.
Mildred was obliged to admit to herself that the young fellow was very undemonstrative at dinner, and that he did not exhibit the rusticity that she half hoped to see.
But this pseudo-rusticity spoils the real, tangible pleasures of life in the country.
His succeeding pictures showed that he had not merely rusticity and nature to rely upon, but that he was a charmeur in the best sense of the word.
It is, namely, a burlesque production of the nature of the Pyramus and Thisbe interlude in the Midsummer Night's Dream, and flavoured with something of the comic rusticity of Greene's Carmela eclogue in Menaphon.
It is, however, a far inferior production, in which the quaintness of the model is replaced by coarse caricature and its delicate rusticity by a cruder realism.
We are here, it is true, as far as ever from the delicate rusticity of Lorenzo de' Medici, and not particularly near to the humour of the Athenian rustics, but for burlesque it is passably amusing.
There is, namely, the question of the allegorical or topical interpretation of the poems, and there is the question of the rusticity or at least simplicity of the form and language.
There remains therusticity of language which distinguishes some of the ruder characters from others more refined.
The apartments to which we are conducted have lost none of the rusticity of the exterior surroundings, but everything is scrupulously neat, and there are excellent negro servants in attendance--desirable features in a hotel.
A certain amount of rusticity would seem to have been essential to a presidential candidate during the middle of the past century.
He had apparently been originally "a fine gentleman," and only acquired his old-fashioned rusticity of manners in consequence of a disappointment in love.
Though much indebted to your goodness, I do not approach you, my Lords and Gentlemen, in the usual style of dedication, to thank you for past favours: that path is so hackneyed by prostituted learning that honest rusticity is ashamed of it.
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.
The Devil's pranks have been referred to; Joseph's rusticity also; and the obstinacy of Noah's wife has been obscurely hinted at.
The Gentle Shepherd has exhibited rusticitywithout vulgarity, and elegant sentiment without affectation.
In later times the beautiful dramatic poem of The Gentle Shepherd has exhibited rusticity without vulgarity, and elegant sentiment without affectation.
The activity of American life, the rapidity and cheapness of intercourse, and the migratory habits both have induced, leave little of rusticity and local character in any particular sections of the country.
While there is less of that high polish in America that is obtained by long intercourse with the great world, than is to be found in nearly every European country, there is much less positive rusticity also.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rusticity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
