artsy fartsy

Example Sentences

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The oldest of four children, she was home-schooled by her born-again mother, a “very artsy-fartsy” child in a town “full of rednecks.”

From New York Times

“In my head I had always wanted to date someone artsy-fartsy, where it was like, I don’t know what you’re saying, but it sounds wonderful.”

From New York Times

He has been careful throughout the pandemic, he said, leaving home to get groceries, pick up his two teenagers from his ex-wife with whom he shares custody and to practice a couple of times a month with a rock band in which he plays bass with other “artsy-fartsy, loner types.”

From Washington Post

Don’t tell me the artsy-fartsy crowd have won and it’s all going to be The Shape of Water and Wes Anderson nonsense from now on?

From The Guardian

She originally described the project with Shields as an “artsy-fartsy statement” mocking the president.

From The Guardian