archness

• “While a certain archness is built into any new analog electrpop, We Are Wolves makes it not just a joke, but a good sweaty joke.”

  CMJ Music Marathon: A Few Reasons to Like We Are Wolves - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Byrne and Slim clearly see Marcos and Cumpas as more than just camp figures, but there's a certain archness to Here Lies Love that keeps us from really caring about their strange, sad story. —”

  Listen Up: Imelda Marcos, the musical? For Byrne, it's 'Love'

• “She was dressed with great simplicity, in plain frock, apron, and white cap, to represent a fair young Quakeress, and she sung a song about her lover with much "archness" -- a delightful quality in woman.”

  In Luck at Last

• “As for our Mr Westray, your Mr Westray, I should say now, "and she assumed that expression of archness which is considered appropriate to such occasions," I am sure he is a sound Churchman.”

  The Nebuly Coat

• “As such, while clearly aspiring to the archness and oblique melodies of early Pavement, Mazes have unwittingly become a facsimile of the Wannadies, the amiable and irrepressible Swedish indie pop success story of the mid-90s.”

  The Guardian: This week's new live music

• “All Sayers's hallmarks are here – ingenuity, in-depth research (but without the hairballs of factual information that too often clogged up the originals), dialogue peppered with quotations, and archness of tone (but without the grating snobbery).”

  The Guardian: Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review

• “These words in this setting would surely set the teeth of many environmentalists to grinding but there's no irony or archness in Boomtown.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Collins: Brooklyn Filmmaker's Boomtown Strikes it Rich

• “Mockery, irony and archness," Mr. Armstrong says, "is not what we need.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hidden Treasure

• “Theroux shows you've often felt that, archness aside, Louis was firmly in control, but here, oddly, he seemed more like the”

  frederick william jackson

• “But a healthy injection of archness would not be amiss.”

  The Huffington Post: Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Misanthrope, Honey Brown Eyes

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