archness

Snodgrass, who was as modest as all great geniuses usually are, felt the crimson rising to the crown of his head, and devoutly wished, in the inmost recesses of his own heart, that the young lady aforesaid, with her black eyes, and her archness, and her boots with the fur round the top, were all comfortably deposited in the adjacent county.

Melvilleson, in the revived Caledonian melody of "We're a-Nodding," points the sentiment that "the dogs love broo" (whatever the nature of that refreshment may be) with such archness and such a turn of the head towards next door that she is immediately understood to mean Mr.

you bad boy!" she said, with a slightly-labored archness of look and manner.

With Kerima Polotan, she embodied the best of Filipino word craft, regardless of gender, employing a pen honed to steely sharpness and an awareness chockful of irony and wit, humor and archness.

"There is an enjoyable archness about this; Isabel sometimes seems half-aware of herself as a character in a novel, but Banville is also a great storyteller.

While his early figurative work held a certain Philip Guston-influenced archness, involving cartoonish still lifes and flashes of the postwar painter's favored emerald green and pork-chop pink, McLaughlin's most recent output pursues a rigorous intimacy of scale and vibe.

And from the beginning we recognize the archness of tone when the narrator tells us of the universal opinion that Tom is born to be hanged.

For all of the archness with which his work treats its source material, Sachs is earnest in his fascination with and affection for it.

But, filming them on a sparse, bare-bulbed Brechtian stage sets only served to amp up the artificiality and archness of the whole enterprise.

But, filming them on sparse, bare-bulbed Brechtian stage sets only served to amp up the artificiality and archness of the whole enterprise.

Andrew R Burns & the Tropicanas Delaydeez EP FANS who like those languid godfathers of indie Orange Juice or the archness of Prefab Sprout will enjoy this (even more than that battered but never read Oxfam copy of Belle et Sebastien).

Her observations about Streep in Out of Africa express a similar eroticism, but in this case in question is the speaking mouth, not the chewing mouth: "Meryl Streep has used too many foreign accents on us, and this new one gives her utterances an archness, a formality--it puts quotation marks around everything she says" ("Sacred Monsters" 79).

Chairman of the Board Daniel Haughton allegedly replied, with archness reminiscent of Marie Antoinettes mangent a la gateau, "So why don't you just put it in the LA Times?