Example sentences for: sweetness

How can you use “sweetness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Weeks after cover stories in Rolling Stone and Spin , the newsweeklies catch up with the hit animated TV show South Park . Newsweek 's cover story argues that South Park successfully balances crudity (singing, dancing stool samples) with inspired lunacy and sweetness (naive 9-year-olds).

  • Thugs are thugs and their wives are idiots to stick around and mob business is greasy and seedy, instead of greasy and seedy and fun . There was a sweetness to Tony when he was discovering his inner mensch that made his and everyone else's brutality come off as ironic and incongruous, rather than just brutal.

  • "No home ever reaches its highest blessedness and sweetness of love and its richest fullness of joy till sorrow enters its life in some way," wrote one minister quite typically in an 1882 family advice manual.

  • That delirious transcript is part of the story of the triumph of refined sugar over old-fashioned honey that takes up almost half of Sidney Mintz's new book, Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions Into Eating, Culture, and the Past . Mintz, an anthropologist at Johns Hopkins University and author of Sweetness and Power (a more detailed look at sugar and its meaning), also explores other topics, ranging from the broader relationship between political power and food to more idiosyncratic excursions such as the chapter entitled "Color, Taste, and Purity: Some Speculations on the Meanings of Marzipan."

  • !!) and his halting sweetness to win us back into his good graces.


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