How To Use Archness In A Sentence
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Moreover, his fascination with B-movies, science fiction and the rest of pop culture was self-conscious but not qualified by archness or irony.
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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.
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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
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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
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There's a sense of delicacy and detail in his approach that saves it from descending into rarefied archness.
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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
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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.
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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
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Mockery, irony and archness," Mr. Armstrong says, "is not what we need.
Hidden Treasure
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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
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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).
Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review
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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'
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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.
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I found this a satisfying device, teetering on archness, but successful in maintaining a playful tone.
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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.
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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
