How To Use archness In A Sentence
- Moreover, his fascination with B-movies, science fiction and the rest of pop culture was self-conscious but not qualified by archness or irony.
- There is no archness in the presentation of this stuff; it does not read with a hint of irony, it has no sly jokes between the lines, no punchlines whatsoever.
- She kittened and frivoled through the Reign of Terror with an archness that was commendable, though somewhat misplaced, and she let loose a lay figure labeled _Marie Antoinette_ that was designed to frame her own accomplishments. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905
- What makes this almost parodic is the self-conscious whimsy that conjoins animate and inanimate in a gesture of closeness conventionally reserved for animate beings alone, an archness that often cloys in Hunt but that points to a more serious scrambling of subjects and objects in bibliophilic writing generally, where books repeatedly turn into quasi-subjects and persons into quasi-objects. Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object
- There's a sense of delicacy and detail in his approach that saves it from descending into rarefied archness.
- These words in this setting would surely set the teeth of many environmentalists to grinding but there's no irony or archness in Boomtown. Dan Collins: Brooklyn Filmmaker's Boomtown Strikes it Rich
- The archness doesn't really get in the way of the crime fighting, but it does lift this book from potentially boring to perfectly diversionary summer reading.
- 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
- Mockery, irony and archness," Mr. Armstrong says, "is not what we need. Hidden Treasure
- 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
