"I miss archness," he murmurs, as if by way of explanation.
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His singing spans several octaves and styles, from new wave archness to gospel expressiveness.
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Fontana imbues Eliot with a forthright earnestness that scrubs away the archness and heaviness in the writing.
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Ms. Smith injected the role with the winning, withering archness that was fast becoming her stylized signature.
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The entire production is steeped in a mixture of archness and earnestness that prohibits emotional engagement and easy listening.
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Playing with him, Ms. Salvant lets go of some of her signature archness, and dips into 1970s soul and Broadway hits.
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But Sing Street replaces Glee's archness and inconsistency with a winning sincerity, both about the value of creation and about family bonds.
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Duch is bravely portrayed by Francis Jue with a flaming archness that neither he nor Chay Yew's production can quite pull off.
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Ms. Barrymore and Mr. Olyphant work well together — despite the archness of the humor, their marriage seems more real than most television unions.
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Both ideas came with a fair amount of conviction and even creativity (no irony or archness here, though that might have been welcome).
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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.
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Not only has she perfected the instantly recognizable voice, but she delivers many lines with an archness that shows her amusement with all of what is unfolding.
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"What critics said: "Although the show shares a certain archness with Wes Anderson films or the recent series 'Maniac,' it is free of the accompanying self-seriousness.
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The show operates at maximum archness, and while the period setting never feels truly real, the moments of emotional authenticity that do break through shine beautifully and brightly.
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The dialogue is imbued with both poetic archness and naturalistic banality, and you can feel the cast being drained and defeated by the strain of struggling between the two.
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By that time Mr. Ebert, whose archness felt a bit forced early in the show, has settled into a prickly confidence that's well matched with Mr. Sears's finely tuned petulance.
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Conversations that could have sparked with the wit and archness of a 1940s romantic comedy are edited in such a way as to make them feel slow and mannered, and it's distracting.
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Gone is the archness and detachment; the formal, furrowed sentences with their fondness for oddly technical language (only in Lerner will a man look into a woman's eyes and marvel at their "dark epithelium and clear stroma").
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The extreme archness of Ford's style proves a good match for the material, a matryoshka doll of narratives about an art gallery owner (Amy Adams) whose first husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) surprises her with a manuscript of his novel.
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The jury praised Bowles' brilliant and creative use of an exaggeratedly antiquated diction and syntax to craft a self-consciously ornate and mannered text that succeeds in capturing the comic archness of Kracht's prose style for English-language readers.
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Maybe a hope for fortitude, maybe a willingness to give the listener a little push forward, maybe a bit of archness in delivery (nobody batted an eye at the idea of him as aristocracy after all), but it was music free of contempt.
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Why Verge readers might care: For viewers who aren't already completely weary of zombie stories, musicals, or dark comedies that take the grimmest tropes with a lighthearted archness, this indie musical comedy about a bloody undead attack on a group of angsty high schoolers is pretty refreshing in its sheer commitment to fun.
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There was something half painful in their jocund gayety and archness.
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Archness became this lady of the sunny hair, tip-tilted nose, and complexion that outvied the apple-blossoms.
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" She compared Bree to Darlene from Roseanne and added that "her raised-eyebrow archness pleases." During Bree's parentage storyling, a reporter for the Daily Record commented "Poor Bree. She's never exactly fitted in with the rest of her family. For a start, she's highly intelligent and the sensitive type – two things that the rest of the Timmins clan are rarely accused of being.
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Of the 1981 Winterfest production, the New York Times wrote that this was a play "of promise." "The play occasionally dips into archness and ends on a predictable note, but, as written from a woman's point of view, it has some enlivening and, for men, some disheartening comments on male-female, husband-wife relations...offers two choice, contrasting roles."Gussow, Mel. "Stage:Yale Winterfest Gives Four Plays in Progress".
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The third season of the animated television series, Archer originally aired in the United States on the cable network FX. The three part episode "Heart of Archness" aired from September 15, 2011 until September 29, 2011. The rest of the season started on January 19, 2012 with "The Man from Jupiter" and ended with the two part episode "Space Race" on March 16, 2012, and March 23, 2012, respectively, with a total of thirteen episodes.
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Poniewozik echoed similar sentiments, who avouched that the actor evinced Archer's arrogant predilection. To Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune, Benjamin delivered a unique inflection and attitude that she described was purely "Archer-ian". Critics have generally applauded the storylines that have involved the character. Alan Sepinwall of HitFix commented that the series shines when the writers "are able to straddle the line between Archer being an ignorant baby and a witty spy capable of being a hyper-competent badass", as palpable in the first part of the third season installment "Heart of Archness".
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In September 1803 it was reported that Brunton had been engaged by Covent Garden Theatre for the season on £10 per week. Her brother, who appeared at Covent Garden 22 September 1800 as Brunton the younger, was with her during her entire time at the theatre. On 5 October 1803 Brunton made her first stage appearance, at Covent Garden, playing Lady Townley in The Provoked Husband to the Lord Townley of Kemble. On 2 November she played Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing and it was said 'her archness, vivacity, and spirit of the part, were well depicted.
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In "Heart of Archness Part III", Ray is shot in the stomach which appears to render him paralyzed from the waist down. He is confined to a wheelchair for several episodes and removed from active duty as a field agent with Cyril taking his position. However, in "Bloody Ferlin", Archer and Lana discover that Ray has been faking his paralysis since being discharged from the hospital following his recovery from his gunshot wound. In the Season 3 finale, "Space-Race 2", Ray ends up being paralyzed for real as the result of Archer interfering with Cyril's effort to land the spacecraft.
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""The barnyard in Mr. Keneally's pagan place" by Hope Hewitt, The Canberra Times, 29 May 1971, p11 Angela Carter, reviewing the book for The New York Times, found it "authentically marvelous", noting "This spirited expressionist performance has stylistic affinities with American high Gothic (e.g., Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles) and thematic ones with James Purdy's parent-child fable, "Malcolm," though Mr. Keneally's tale lacks the stark outlines that characterize the fable as a mode. He offers an embarrassment of symbolic riches, and his prevailing Firbankian archness sometimes effects a tinkling queasiness of tone. One doesn't know whether one is cued in for a belly laugh, a nervous giggle or a shudder of horror.
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He's written many, in both his plays ('Danny and the Deep Blue Sea' and 'Savage in Limbo') and screenplays ('Moonstruck'), and it's no surprise that we can get close to this threesome. That's really 'Women's' strength, and what makes it enough of a pleasure." In reviewing the 1997 New York revival, the New York Times reviewer wrote: "In less capable hands, the trials of these lonely women in this light comedy of Upper West Side manners would be exercises in archness. But the trio of actresses who portray them -- Katie Davis as Billie, Fiona Gallagher as Rhonda Louise and especially Elizabeth Hanly Rice as Judy -- are so at home with Mr. Shanley's biting, smart-girl banter that Women of Manhattan radiates a surprising urbanity and wit...Mr.
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She regularly trades insults with him and consistently berates him for his chaotic methods in the field, but at times she has shown sympathy when he is in trouble or been attracted to him in moments of competence. In "Stage Two" she tried to counsel him through his cancer scare, and in a drunken state of fear he admitted he loved her, a statement that rendered her speechless. She slept with him prior to his surgery, but after his cancer was treated he was unable to say it again. He later admitted in "Heart of Archness" that she was his only friend, but was not able to repeat his confession of love until he nearly died saving her life in "Sea Tunt II".
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