tidiness

• “Neatness, tidiness, is easy: gaze upon a manicured lawn, a minimalist room, where there is nothing to disrupt or offend one’s line of sight, and there is nothing to think about, nothing to provoke the imagination.”

  Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother

• “He had a great many housewifely ways, and his tidiness was a satisfaction to Grandma”

  Old Caravan Days

• “Why would a kid want to clean up his toys in service of "tidiness" when they're so much easier to find on the floor?”

  The Huffington Post: Jonathan Kim: The Planeteers Want YOU! Captain Planet Turns 20

• “When in the presence of Irish, blacks wallowed in filth and idleness but “where the blacks were found by themselves, we generally encountered tidiness, and some sincere attempt at industry and honest self-support.””

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “And there can be tidiness * and* clutter – real wunderkammers were, after all, well-organized.”

  Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother

• “Last year, she met with Yemeni-American community leaders to explain how to pack airplane luggage, after two Michigan men of Yemeni descent taped bottles of Pepto-Bismol to cellphones in their checked bags—apparently for tidiness—, inadvertently triggering fears of a bombing plot.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Long Arm of Law Reaches Out to Woo Muslims

• “The bed rose up from this sea of refuse like a small island of tidiness.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl of Durkness

• “But scrupulous tidiness takes time and Gerald the perfectionist lost his chance to go elk hunting up north in Ten Sleep country.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “For example, we want to send them the messages of tidiness and responsibility for their belongings, so, every evening before they go to bed, our girls pile their books on the coffee table in our living room and put away their toys in their bedrooms.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Jim Taylor: Four Surefire Ways to Send Messages to Your Children

• “It is the very lack of tidiness, the Starbucks spill, the torn corners that make it something than is much more than the sum of its parts.”

  The Huffington Post: Anya Hindmarch: Electronic or Paper?

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