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- noun The quality of being
arty .
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Examples
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The "artiness" of signs is not the concern of graphic design.
Graphic Design Is Not Art Jonathan 2004
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More retro-artiness for the 'dance your abortion' comfort-zone crowd.
Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer Movie Trailer | /Film 2010
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Maybe because its sometimes self-conscious artiness makes it easy for critics to praise.
Crimefest IV: How to make a classic movie for £7,000 Peter Rozovsky 2010
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A lot of this stuff comes across today like '60s artiness, but it works better than do the period touches in other '60s movies I've written about here.
Archive 2010-01-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010
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But having lived in New Mexico, and understanding the comparisons between Todos Santos and Santa Fe, I can tell you that conceptual thinking (which I'm interested in) and artiness are not always the same.
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A dance-rock band I liked better, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, slammed out the kind of early-1980s dance-rock beats that the Rapture also uses, but they traded yelping for filtered vocals (like Daft Punk) and artiness for rowdiness.
SXSW: Unstoppable Late-Night Beats - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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It is above all a presentation style - of openness, of scepticism towards the old fusty-dusty forms, of irreverence, of irony, of artiness, of political and environmental engagement.
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The group's music merges indie artiness with the optimism of early Springsteen, but it also nods to other, older musical forms: folk, jazz, the ambient swirl of fairground music and the chanson tradition of Quebec.
Arcade Fire: 'The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to us' Sean O 2010
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A dance-rock band I liked better, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, slammed out the kind of early-1980s dance-rock beats that the Rapture also uses, but they traded yelping for filtered vocals (like Daft Punk) and artiness for rowdiness.
SXSW: Unstoppable Late-Night Beats - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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But having lived in New Mexico, and understanding the comparisons between Todos Santos and Santa Fe, I can tell you that conceptual thinking (which I'm interested in) and artiness are not always the same.
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