patness

Despite a certain patness in the structure (Helen's father learns to be easier on his son as he is learning to be harder on his daughter; Annie's own damaged heart opens in concert with Helen's ability to interact usefully with the world), it's a lovely play, well-written, well-woven, a little sentimental, but not excessively so.

The Miracle Worker deliasherman 2010

Despite a certain patness in the structure (Helen's father learns to be easier on his son as he is learning to be harder on his daughter; Annie's own damaged heart opens in concert with Helen's ability to interact usefully with the world), it's a lovely play, well-written, well-woven, a little sentimental, but not excessively so.

The Miracle Worker deliasherman 2010

While I still find Mr. Bennett's here's-what-happened-to-everybody ending to be neat to the point of outright patness, I bought into the rest of the play this time around and cared about its characters.

The 'Boys' Are Back, but Different 2009

Forgive the movie's patness; relish its many richly lived-in moments.

Not A Season To Be Jolly 2008

Nor are you likely to care, since (A) the plot generated by this premise is wince-makingly artificial and (B) Mr. Marshall can't decide whether to make fun of its patness or play it straight.

Improper Strangers 2007

Joanna herself was a little surprised at the movielike patness of it.

The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

Lewis had been very eloquent in explaining how things should be, even if he wasn't working with the whole story, while Mally had an offhand manner about her that gave her reasoning a little too much patness.

Greenmantle De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1985

The eloquent statement you have just made, for instance -- it carries all the patness of old conviction.

The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan

The rush of yelping dogs to the door when aroused by some sound without, and the wailing of sick babies or sleepy children in the laps of mothers seated on the benches, broke the patness of many amusing anecdotes, and the flow of many eloquent periods, from the lips of the man on the platform.

History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919 1922

Often there seems to be intelligent association of certain acts or conditions with corresponding sentences, these sometimes occurring with singular patness.

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895