knowingness

It's the desire to be, the knowingness that makes the difference.

There was a knowingness about it that I could not explain.

Here there is no need to take refuge in that kind of knowingness.

Without a tongue to tell it, all the knowingness in the universe is of little value.

Artiness is not quite the same thing as knowingness, though.

The author's subject is knowingness, but so is his method.

I introduced a more realistic note and substituted knowledge for knowingness.

And certain pieces wear, with appropriate knowingness, a "made in China" label.

I'm happy to watch ads that remind me of my knowingness, if they're clever.

Jade's knowingness about her own predicaments goes a long way toward making the film work.

They projected, as did he, a sense of ironic knowingness onto their sitters.

It elevates them to more of a wary knowingness than maturity.

The knowingness and the name-dropping that characterized the early issues disappeared.

Despite the knowingness, though, there's still a clear sense of the genuine camaraderie Steven has with his parents.

Wit, knowingness and skepticism all figure in the episode.

That knowingness has been kind of lacking all year."

His right eye was hidden but the left leered at her with a dreadful knowingness.

But he concluded that there was no reason to rent his coolness and knowingness to other companies.

The cartoon character, popular throughout the 30's, displayed a sexual knowingness that was usually found only in jazz songs.

The body is discreet, but the eyes speak ambiguously of both innocence and knowingness.

How do we tap into our inner knowingness?

There was little sense of a practical harmony and knowingness about clothes that truly matched a woman's confidence.

I found this knowingness very deflating, and left.

It is the paradox of helplessness and knowingness that gives this work its special poignancy.

"Yeah," said Jonathan, who, odd as it sounds, exhibits none of his friend's knowingness.