What's the difference between bleakness and nakedness?
Bleakness
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Nakedness
Definition:
(n.) The condition of being naked.
(n.) The privy parts; the genitals.
Example Sentences:
(1) At one time I mistook this nakedness for freedom, but I don't any more.
(2) Shevchenko, who has been imprisoned five times for her activism, and was once abducted by Ukrainian secret services, says she is frequently asked to address the "apparent contradiction" in feminists using their nakedness to protest, she says.
(3) Perhaps, suggests the Gemora Sanhedrin, facing up to the oddity of the verse about Ham seeing his father's nakedness, it means either that Ham castrated his father, or that he sodomised him.
(4) He sports a beard, conceals his nakedness with a guitar and appears in the credits as "Turk Thrust".
(5) The most frequent adverse subjective sensations were problems of nakedness when seen by healthy women, when "seening themselves" and when seen by the husband (partner).
(6) Their nakedness, or the warm water, or the comfort of the old routine dislodges their sticking-plaster emotions and shows the wound beneath.
(7) Each year, 50,000 Xhosa boys descend on the vast province to undergo the secretive ritual – including circumcision by a "traditional surgeon" and one month's seclusion in nakedness.
(8) What he misses most about clothes are pockets ("Somewhere to put my hands"), and his nakedness forces him to see the varicose veins on his legs, "which I don't like".
(9) Flabby nakedness happens, so does eating, so does looking like crap – it’s the human condition, whatever your gender.
(10) Of course, people talk about our nakedness, but they are also listening to our message."
(11) But here is the thing about being an only child: nothing, and certainly not those glamorous childhood spells as a tourist in other people's families, quite prepared me for the reality of it, nor for how ill equipped I would be to navigate the inter-sibling rivalry, the nakedness of the competition, the bare-knuckle obsession with justice.
(12) It is as though, in other people's houses, we become aware of our own nakedness.
(13) But a loosely fitting shirt and maybe some trousers will, far from causing you to overheat, actually offer some protection against the sun as well as preventing nakedness.
(14) It's nothing new that some fashion people dress, well, weird, but it sometimes takes someone like Weird Al to act like the little boy who points out the emperor's nakedness to say what is really going on here.
(15) Shem and Japheth had walked backwards into the tent with a garment over their shoulders and, without looking behind them at Noah, covered him and "saw not their father's nakedness".
(16) This seems a bit of a stretch from "seeing his nakedness", but we know the Bible has a quaint way with sexual deeds: lying with each other, knowing each other – and why would Ham's offspring be condemned to servility for an innocent incident?
(17) Last month the Guardian reported that in training men and women from other military units in interrogation and "tactical questioning" – the initial interrogation of captured prisoners – F Branch instructed them to use threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness, in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions.
(18) In all, Shiner's team has documented 59 allegations of detainees being hooded, 11 of electric shocks, 122 of sound deprivation through the use of earmuffs, 52 of sleep deprivation, 160 of sight deprivation, including 117 using blackened goggles, 132 of the use of stress positions, 39 of enforced nakedness, and 18 allegations that detainees were kept awake by pornographic DVDs played on laptops.
(19) Applying piracy legislation to peaceful protesters exposes the nakedness of the prosecuting emperor.
(20) Opened in 1890, the Forth Railway Bridge, in all its steel nakedness, was one of the wonders of the modern world.