Rawness

The energy of his lines and the rawness of his strokes place him firmly in the modern art canon.

The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow.

Now, in spite of all sorts of defects, all sorts of woollinesses and rawnesses, the American novel is superior to either the English or the French; it is indeed superior, I think, to any European novel […]