archness

Example Sentences

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His adoption of Instagram may just be very weird, but there has been just enough of a twinkle to suggest a deadpan archness to what would otherwise be curiously well-constructed shots of overwhelming banality.

From The Guardian

This approach takes getting used to and your mileage may vary; much depends on your tolerance for archness, twee and lightly deployed Anderson-ish tics.

From New York Times

But the satisfactions of archness are short-lived, and I left the movie feeling like Marmee got short shrift once again.

From The New Yorker

I’d been a bit worried about the movie ever since I heard of its existence; sly wit is hard enough on the page, and even harder on screen, where it can easily dissolve into archness.

From Seattle Times

It was both hysterically silly and deeply earnest in a way that, in this age of archness and irony, few shows dare to be.

From The Guardian