But originality and modishness are different things. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Sagging baggies, tattoos, false nails and hair, piercings, what are we of a certain age and with squeamish sensibilities, to make of such modishness?. From Wordnik.com. [Crack Attack!] Reference
Yet my experiences in the salons and at the stand-up recitals of the new literary scene suggest that, despite the occasional piece of irritating modishness, the hyperbole with which some events are trumpeted and the odd ropy performance, there is an energy and invention on offer that the established scene and its practitioners might do well to allow to rub off on them. From Wordnik.com. [The new wave of literary events] Reference
We rarely meet with any thing that savours of modishness in his workmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters]
A figure of exquisite modishness, she perched upon the porch rail near Chester. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Country Sky] Reference
In another he remonstrates against certain frivolous affectations, and some of the coxcombries of literary modishness. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
Jarvis studied the luxurious furnishings of the cabin, the jewels and aristocratic modishness of the girl's attire, and nodded. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play] Reference
According to the dictionary, the slang definition of funky is something "characterized by originality and modishness; unconventional.". From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
"It is necessary to look past the modishness of this MTV Films production, aimed at the youth audience that resembles the film's characters," writes. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
It is nothing less than extraordinary that Voltaire, living in the age of all ages the most obsessed with the modishness of the hour, should have written. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
He watched Janet's graceful gestures, and examined with pleasure the beauties of her half-season toilet; he discerned the modishness of her umbrella handle. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
Her hair, now becoming yellower and more sunburned at the ends, was piled under her felt hat, and the modishness of long cylindrical curls was quite forgot. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of a Man] Reference
Winthrop and Higginson; the royal governors maintained a fitting state, and traveled Americans, then as now, brought back with them from Europe the freshest ideas of modishness and style. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775] Reference
Clarke examines how peculiar British values and humour must seem to the outsider, Europeans particularly, the adult humour hidden in children's stories and the changing tastes and modishness of publishers. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
I class it with being able to wear a pink-barred shirt front with a diamond-cluster pin in it; with having my clothes so nobby and stylish that one thread more of modishness would be beyond the human power to endure; with being genuinely fond of horseracing; with being. From Wordnik.com. [Back Home] Reference
The problem is that the kind of thing that finds favour with Michelin judges is not necessarily what people want to eat - and it sounds unlikely that The Goose, which is five minutes beyond the middle of nowhere and falling victim to cheffy modishness, was actually making any money. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
She showed her devotion by taking no interest whatever in her husband's land schemes; by forbidding Eugene to play football at school for fear he might be injured; by impressing Adele with the necessity for vivacity and modishness because of what she called her unfortunate lack of beauty. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
The resulting collection is a bit different from the usual exercise in meta-linguistic naming and shaming, since in his selected examples, it's generally the (insincerity or offensiveness of the) content that sets people off, not the (alleged) ungrammaticality, modishness, illogicality, or redundancy of the form. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
Here is where we see once again the old affinity between aristocratic conservatism and debauchery, and the new and more surprising slippery slope between extreme conservatism and the cutting edge of modishness - if you like, the much-shortened passage from nerd to hipster extremist that contemporary culture seems to shruggingly accept. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Young Rigby Reeves, generalising, as it later appeared, from inadequate data, swore once that the rector of St. Antipas kept always an eye ahead for the female mendicant in the tattered shawl and the bonnet of inferior modishness; that, if the Avenue was crowded enough to make it seem worth while, he would even cross from one side to the other for the sake of speaking to her publicly. From Wordnik.com. [The Seeker] Reference
Au revoir,” she added with unexpected modishness, and rang off. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
Obsessed with the modishness of the hour. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English] Reference
Should this sudden modishness be a surprise?. From Wordnik.com. [Guilty Carnivore - SideNotes] Reference
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