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. From Wordnik.com. [CMJ Music Marathon: A Few Reasons to Like We Are Wolves - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
There was no archness in her glance; her humor was wholly masculine. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
More often she substitutes archness or mild cleverness for real wit. From Wordnik.com. [2006 November 14 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
There was a certain archness to the mage's reply that held Aubri frozen. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Gryphon]
‘Edith of course does not,’ said Mrs Skewton, with a ghastly archness. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
“You thought I cared very much for dignities?” said she with keen archness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ball at Sceaux] Reference
"For me!" she exclaimed, bridling, and raising her brows with juvenile archness. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
"And," said Doc, with an archness that ill-befitted him, "who might this lady be?". From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Tycho]
"I shall leave you to answer that question," replies she, with all her old archness. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
For instance, I found the increased posing and archness of indie rock musicians distancing. From Wordnik.com. [Left Behind: Black Music by White Musicians] Reference
I came to Pomona's English Department expecting to find a hurricane of archness and ferocity. From Wordnik.com. [Lapham's Quarterly: David Foster Wallace, R.I.P.] Reference
Lord Allen has a good deal of archness in his countenance, though not of the ill-natur'd kind. From Wordnik.com. [Barford Abbey] Reference
Reviewers of these two books grew increasingly impatient with their archness and shagginess and scale. From Wordnik.com. [Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon] Reference
Sally May was a delicious Mrs. Bennet -- her archness, her querulousness, and above all her talkativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
She had no archness or coquetry like some, no voluptuousness like others, no arts to win applause like others. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
“My confidence is here,” cut in Miss Jessica, smiling at Campion, but there was no archness in her manner. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
She laughed with much archness when I shewed her the bread, and its vigorous resistance to the edge of my knife. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Somehow I thought that she avoided my eye, and answered my remarks with less than her usual archness and vivacity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
She gave a smile in which, in spite of everything, there was a certain coquetry, if not indeed a hint of archness. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
Unlike many bloggers, he is cogent, factual, and can turn a phrase with the archness that some of us only dream of. From Wordnik.com. [December 2005] Reference
Wefollowed them into the great hall: Mr. Selby had archness in his look, and seemed ready to blame us for withdrawing. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Theroux shows you've often felt that, archness aside, Louis was firmly in control, but here, oddly, he seemed more like the. From Wordnik.com. [frederick william jackson] Reference
Her face had a cheery and agreeable expression, not unmixed with piquant archness and a sort of dainty, bewitching coquetry. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
But Miss Grandison, in her behaviour to Lord G. is governed by motives of archness, and, I may say, downright roguery of temper. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
As he did this, she was struck with the expression of his countenance, which exhibited a strange mixture of archness and malignity. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian] Reference
"I haven't time," I said, with that imperious archness that the sons of princes use to remind others of authority they don't yet have. From Wordnik.com. [Enjoyment] Reference
In their pleasantry, archness, and good-natured raillery, these two little articles of Elia's remind me of some of Addison's happiest papers in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
The archness of manner with which these words were uttered was triumphant, and every unpleasant feeling was lost in the mirth which was necessarily excited. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
Mademoiselle gave me one fleeting glance, saucy merriment dancing in her eye; then she turned to Bonaparte, and, curtsying low, she said with pretty archness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
A spirit far less candid than skepticism -- a tone of archness and a misplaced hunt for "human interest" -- badly vitiated William Glaberson's February 28 New. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: Guantanamo Justice] Reference
"You're impatient to be there, of course?" assented Mr. DIBBLE, with what might have passed for an attempt at archness if he had not been so wholly devoted to squareness. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870] Reference
My beloved Queen spoke presently and even -- marvellous to relate -- with a touch of the gentle archness which so adorned her before His Majesty's all-overshadowing malady. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
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