You explore the twee city as you take on different jobs, which mostly revolve around the not-so-twee act of killing people.
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I know, I know: real books, how obvious and twee.
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The film's twee qualities shouldn't be taken for fatuousness, however.
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It's crammed: pop, rock, funk, balladry and even some twee indie.
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Hard to believe a twee guy like him deflowered Lori Maddox.
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By Mr. McIntyre's standards, this narrative is bordering on the twee.
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It's also getting marketed to the most twee of demographics: pet parents.
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Here's a teaser showing Gregor Samsa after transitioning into a twee bugman.
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It is filled with some 85 restaurants, ethnic and cheffy and twee.
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It isn't marketable or twee or inspirational, at least not by conventional standards.
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Are you familiar with any cyber-twee musicians, like Poppy or PC Music?
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The Scandinavians have dark winters and darker thrillers to balance out their twee.
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Here he is, playing drums in the so-twee-it-hurts Honey Brothers.
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It isn't trying to be twee or deliberately offbeat—that's not Cruz's aim.
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But it was infuriatingly twee, so you can't hate on it too much.
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The film tips into the maudlin and quickly scoots back to the twee.
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We can be happy for new parents without sugary frosting or twee decorations.
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Most importantly, it isn't just hiding an excess complexity behind a twee aesthetic.
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But I feel like these guys' self-consciousness makes them even more twee.
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Singing such moonlit, almost twee material amid such acrimony felt counterfeit to him.
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Did I really have patience for a Nazi Youth send-up this twee?
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A pre-planned line is often too cute or too twee to be organic.
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It might come off as unbearably twee, or naive, or confusing and poorly plotted.
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This twee little Sundance indie was an odd choice for a Hall H panel.
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So, how did you come to own this very twee book called Me WithoutYou?
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Having once been a teenager and having always loved twee movies, I understand this.
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While rainbow jewelry is often dismissed as twee, these sparklers are all grown up.
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There's much that appears self-serious, even as it relishes the twee and bathetic.
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She takes it to a place reminiscent of the twee (and beloved) K Records style.
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Nor are the Scots, or, heaven forfend, the Irish (saying "heaven forfend" is definitely twee).
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Just like any counterculture thing, it's very twee and it's ... You know what I mean?
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Scott Hutchison fronted a mildly successful indie rock band with a twee name from Scotland.
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I view bands like Belle and Sebastian or The Field Mice more twee than this.
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And when does a word go from "fresh" to faddish, twee, or just plain annoying?
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Dolefully lyrical, bar a bouncier middle section, it proved as twee as the orchestration implied.
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And here, my love of all things twee ends in an abrupt line in the sand.
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It's twee instead of funny, with a misplaced confidence that all human behavior is worth watching.
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He is not as clean but has a twee, giggly delivery that I thought might appeal.
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But, for all its twee escapism, vanlife is a trend born out of the recent recession.
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Consider other nuances: Portlandification can be Brooklynified, as happens when ambitious media-savvy types commercialize twee.
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"We wanted it to feel a bit like a kid's party, but not twee," she says.
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It has Carrie's supernatural angst, Juno's oddball quirk, and the smart-twee edge of Scott Pilgrim.
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The premise is more than a little twee, but it's worth keeping an eye on Run.
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While Gerwig's films can edge toward a constructed quality associated with treacly white hipster twee-ness.
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Once wrote an excruciatingly twee lyric along the lines of 'now you're crying in your Ready Brek'.
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To some, Mr McCreadie thinks, jazz can sound "lame and twee"—or, worse still, "horrible and mental".
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Nearly three decades later, Amazon Prime has brought it to the screen in six very twee episodes.
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The whole point of the book, and indeed the series, is to revel in the twee-ness.
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Because the thing about twee is that, like English weather, its defining characteristic is its very mildness.
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There's some lyrics from around that time where I totally am playing up to the twee thing.
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In most geek properties, and in Harry Potter especially, danger is filtered through a lens of twee.
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This is what Kickstarter is for: twee music and animations in the service of potentially unfulfilled hope.
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The resulting melee could be a twee curiosity if he weren't so gifted at intuitive pop melodies.
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He tinkered with dance music's maximalist tendencies, pairing huge, community-moving beats with introspective, almost twee lyrics.
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In its immediate wake came a glut of twee bands indebted to his is-he-really-serious?
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Everyone's excited about the SNES Classic Edition, what with its twee 90s look and fantastic selection of games.
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That's because it takes the potent twee aspect of the Cooper Hardtop and adds sunshine to the equation.
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Be warned, the show looks exceptionally twee, but the dark twist could make it a lot of fun.
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A letter on January 18th from German leaders urging Britons to stay was endearing, but also oddly twee.
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The butler toddled around on its two wheels, going to answer the door, and generally looked quite twee.
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"Forever," on Amazon, is also a show about soul mates, but it's as twee as it is twisty.
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The poems are often described as whimsical, but if they're not your cup of twee they can grate.
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It sounds like the quintessential hipster-baiting pastime — the perfect pseudo-sport for certain twee, bubble-dwelling Brooklynites.
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You wouldn't think the twee indy act and mega-talented hip-hop superstar would go together this well.
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Scentsy: DNVBs are hip, but they are over-reliant on twee launch videos and Facebook ads to drive revenue.
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Tom: I think it comes back to the twee thing again where we didn't even know what it was.
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But, by the same token, readers who preferred sharper teeth to their criticism found Eggers's output twee, even sentimental.
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This has always been Star Trek's greatest strength, and the new series nails this without being Pollyanna or twee.
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The new page layouts are more text-heavy, with longer articles and fewer glossy photos and twee spot illustrations.
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Vera (Mia Katigbak) is mother to Momo (Tiffany Villarin), also a doctor, and Twee (Tina Chilip), a dilettante photographer.
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There are four little dioramas, each depicting a scene in Baalsrud's escape in an almost twee Wes Anderson fashion.
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His most recent nonfiction book was 2014's Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film.
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It might sound a bit twee or even hopelessly optimistic, but the truth is, I see no other alternative.
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Created from 18-karat gold, with a hand-carved ruby, Lola Brooks's heart-shaped ring is anything but twee.
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Jen's angry and cynical and hard-edged, Judy's rueful and apologetic and twee, and we know where that's going.
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You may find it hard to tell the forest from (forgive me) the twee, the piece is so wholesome.
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One that didn't make you cringe through its awkward Englishness, or verge dangerously close to the edge of twee?
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Both of which would be more fun, if a little twee — later, guys, I'm going on a TV spree!
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The early Safdie films were nearly twee, because the main characters tended to be wistful and a little restless.
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I'm not advocating the twee harmony of a perfect kitchen, of things being spick-and-span or just so.
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This feels like a film from a decade ago: unapologetically twee, and potentially even charming enough to pull it off.
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As is the way with iconic pieces, the beret has sometimes fallen into twee, costume, or hard-to-wear territory.
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Anna Kendrick plays a twee blogger who is dead set on finding her, and legendary director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) directs.
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The worst sort of twee-DM: "I can be your shining star" platitudes slung out over goal compilation synth stabs.
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In her videos, she appears winkingly gracious to her "fans" for listening to "Friday," then performs a twee ukulele version.
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It's an action-adventure game with plenty of gameplay quirks supporting a colorful, twee (but not cloying) world and story.
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Galerie Gregor Staiger of Zurich has twee paintings of bats by the performance artist now known as Marvin Gaye Chetwynd.
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First, "Whenever You're Ready" is just incredibly sincere, which I guess some people will read as sentimental or even twee.
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It's also taking advantage of some partnerships to get custom stickers, starting with some pretty twee little avatars from Stranger Things.
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Have a picnic Picnics might sound twee, but they're really just snacking and hanging out outdoors… who can turn that down?
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When I do find myself buying coffee, it's almost never from a Starbucks, but twee, ultra-premium cafes or gas stations.
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All around the world, hip young people are competing to see who can live in the tiniest, quirkiest, twee-est house.
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She is none of the adjectives that have been used over the past decade to describe this affect: twee, adorkable, etc.
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There's been a conscious rejection of the twee, toothless banter that has rotted mainstream FM shows previously lauded for their bite.
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I'm up here block-printing, and I am up in this twee Connecticut house, tacking things up on the wall, anyway.
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But where Gauld appears jaded and world-weary, Snider exhibits an almost twee earnestness — calling the creative process "genius," for example.
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Isn't it a relief, for once, to feel our feelings and have a precious, twee baby hold our hand through it all?
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Add this adaptor to your twee canning jars and keep wet and dry ingredients separate until you are ready to eat. 2.
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"You could find British cakes in twee little tea shops with lace doilies and such, but they were often dry," she recalled.
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You have an assortment of basic environments: maybe you'd like to make a twee garden world, or a fancy little underwater dome.
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The drawings of figs and protein bars and David Bowie record covers interspersed throughout the book give the impression of twee jetsam.
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It presumes young people lack imagination, that they largely comprehend music as educational, that their interests are circumscribed and almost unrelentingly twee.
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In comparison to a show that's fresh and new and inventive like Broad City, for example, Girls feels twee and tokenistic now.
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The two said they wanted a name that did not sound twee or overly cute, opting instead for one that symbolized good luck.
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Sure. But you'll know right away from the twee aesthetic and too-real red text if this is something you'll be onboard with.
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Twee, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a word that means cute, or precious, but in an excessive, affected kind of way.
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It's been getting so much buzz, and yet its trailer made made the movie look so melodramatic, saccharine, twee, overwrought, and manically romantic.
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Rilke's flowery — and daresay twee — verses do not jibe with today's tastes for cut-and-dry clarity, blasé irony, and Tweet-able brevity.
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Frankfurt was long pitched as a twee German city like Munich, complete with Christmas market and Ebbelwoi (the rather acidic local apple wine).
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This tension between blessing and curse has always made Gilmore Girls a great TV show, more bittersweet and less twee than its reputation.
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There's also apparently room for cake, as you can see in the remarkably twee video above that Google produced to announce new features.
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Although it went on to achieve beloved cult status in the twee annals of Andersonia, The Life Aquatic was a box office flop.
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The film renders the dreamy fin-de-siècle fantasy with Arcadian lakeside scenes and lush gardens that teem with twee wrought-iron furniture.
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But the books never come across as saccharine or twee; instead, the images demonstrate van Es's veneration of the traces of human interaction.
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The twee-ness is an illusion, though, as In the Air Without a Shape is a supremely confident project with deliberate arrangement choices.
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Rich not merely in color, but in pattern and texture, the collection's Anglophilic brio is instantly recognizable; it feels witty but never twee.
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It wasn't simply the excruciatingly twee musical choices, or the well-worn trajectory of a plot as contrived as its woolly-hatted heroine.
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When they get home, Vector will recognize their face and deliver your message, presumably with a twee animation to make the chore less onerous.
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The TBS show captured hearts back in 2016 as the "hipster Gone Girl" of TV, putting a twee spin on a gritty city mystery.
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There was an element of twee in Perry's first feature, Impolex (2009), a 73-minute riff on an episode from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
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But it's not all twee; the shows tackle a wide range of issues that often zero in on the impact of tech on society.
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I'd also never heard of nine of the 10 bands on this list of TWEE poppers, but then again, please get off my lawn.
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If you are the kind of person who finds the above scenario twee or unbearably mannered, Forrest Leo's The Gentleman is not for you.
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Based on the twee graphics that illustrate these examples (over-sized flowers, curvilinear lines) they might well be a jab at Instagram-ready art.
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Morgan hasn't divulged a price for the EV3 it has said, however, the production of this twee eco-friendly trike will begin in late 2016.
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Don't be fooled by the twee names and gratuitous puns, Werdelin says: Pets are big business, and the industry is growing at a rapid clip.
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We've reached out to the FTC for comment on Trump's twee and whether this action would even be covered under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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THERE ARE not a lot of things at which the English can still claim to be world champions, but being twee is one of them.
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At times Otrebor's work sounds manic, and at others is startlingly lovely (those tinkling "blastbeats" are so wonderfully twee, even supporting his guttural, hollow roars).
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Even if you hated the film and thought it was twee and stupid and cutesy as fuck, you could, at the very least, say, 'Noël.
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Spanning Good Friday to Easter Monday, the bank holiday is the British equivalent of a US Federal holiday, just with a slightly more twee name.
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Its album is a full-spectrum auditory experience, the sound of renegade toys weeping after a bender — curious, saccharine, unsteady and twee, but not weak.
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It's all pure elation, pure celebration, the kind of episode of television that no other show could ever pull off without feeling saccharine or twee.
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The mustachioed barmen in plaid, and the interior's twee mix of taxidermy and mismatched vintage glasses makes it feel like Buffalo by way of Brooklyn.
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So his demeanor felt both deserved and real — while stripping out some of the possible twee-ness of this family figuring out their new dynamic.
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Other than that, I never got a sense of Henry as a real character, and in fact — sorry, Alissa — I mostly found him pretty twee.
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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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With that in mind, it seems almost impossible to endorse a twee, self-aware marketing gimmick seemingly designed to whip up debate on social media.
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A lot of it was a reaction to being called "twee" and "pop" so we wanted to make these really aggressive songs in strange time signatures.
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From its subject matter to its trim size and multicolored pages — many in pink and red — the volume, published by Princeton Architectural Press, is distinctly twee.
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There's an inherent good-heartedness at the center of improv comedy that is either genuine and important or overly precious and twee, depending on your perspective.
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The song appears on Martha's excellent new album, "Blisters in the Pit of My Heart," full of politically and literarily inclined twee pop and DIY punk.
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Nothing here feels cute, quaint or kitsch, though whimsy can fall that way, into a slough of soggy sentimentality sometimes laced with an emetic of twee.
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Except instead of there being some weird nightmarish monster conspiracy she's running away from, she's mostly just surrounded a colorful and twee coming of age story.
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"Marble Soda" is decidedly more twee than Wasabi's earlier electro-influenced music, like the OST to a Nintendo game that could also be played at a rave.
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Lovely little villages with little model versions of themselves and cosy pubs and shops that sell only brollies (umbrellas) or jumpers (sweaters) or puds (desserts) are twee.
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They have come to quite like the place—it's set in Oxfordshire, perhaps the twee-est county in England—and grown reasonably fond of each other too.
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Kevin Alvir, singer/songwriter/producer behind The Hairs (and formerly of twee pop staples The Lil' Hospital and Knight School) has been documenting his music-filled past.
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Eternal Sunshine posited a medical remedy for this latter scourge—but is such a thing actually possible, outside of twee pseudo-indie movies from the early aughts?
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"To the extent that people are thinking 'fiancé' is a little twee, the new way of saying may not involve a word at all," Dr. McWhorter said.
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Centuries before twee Zooey Deschanel lookalikes started strumming YouTube covers of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a musician named Joao Fernandez hopped off a boat in Honolulu Harbor.
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For me, it captures both the mood of Sofia Coppola films and Gregg Araki films—that sort of sexual ambiguity and also a kind of twee-ness.
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The word "twee" got thrown around a lot as a descriptor in the beginning, but it didn't fit them for very long, if it did at all.
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We live in an age of unprecedented twee, but at least a tea calendar makes sense in that you can feasibly follow the one-a-day model.
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In "363 Questions," the composers Chris Littler and Ellen Winter and the sound designer Joel Raabe have created a radically intimate, slightly twee and seriously winning musical.
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But in keeping with the New Saloon aesthetic — I'd boil it down to twee with brains — more effort goes into feeding the stunt than nurturing the story.
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Unusually, it's all in rhyming verse, but hear an actor like Eddie Redmayne or Sam West in the role, and Shakespeare's verse emerges as darkly troubling, not twee.
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Plus, the two cats that roam around the grounds are just about as sweet and twee as the tiny pink-topped cactus you're going to end up buying.
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I don't like the word, because it's used nowadays to describe basically every game and has become synonymous with twee—but the Artisan Homeworld is also, truly, pretty.
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There are also some exceptional food markets that may be a bit twee for some, with their watermelon water and protein bars made from high-protein cricket flour.
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It's as weird as it sounds and, like the streetcar, it seems kind of cool at first, but it's also twee and unnecessary and took way too long.
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Relentlessly introspective throughout, the songs range from 60s baroque to pop-industrial dirge to shambolic beats-driven twee that wouldn't be out of place on the Kids soundtrack.
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Yet what could have easily been twee was modernized by a sense of ease and practicality — Burch said her pinup for the collection was Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Highly influential on most of your favourite indie bands, Smith had a knack for storytelling that never seemed trite or twee, and a quiet wit all his own.
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The relation between the Academy and the Lyceum is a little like that between a twee medieval Cambridge College and the monumental architecture of the University of Chicago.
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It's nearly perfect, marred only by its overly twee indie soundtrack, and there's no posturing when the Boss smokingly switch frontside flips a large four block near the end.
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A new generation of harpsichordists is coming to the fore, one that has given an almost hipsterish profile to an instrument that is popularly stereotyped as archaic and twee.
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At times, the staging bordered on the twee, as when the soprano soloist, Marlis Petersen, sang "Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit" while floating on a swing suspended from the ceiling.
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The first trailer for Wes Anderson's upcoming stop-motion animation project, Isle of Dogs, is here, and it looks like a very Anderson-esque mix of sci-fi and twee.
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Along with the limited-edition Coach collection that launched in June, a Daniel Nicole for Disney handbag line, featuring twee Tinkerbell and Snow White crossbody bags, debuted the same month.
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This very pretty, very musical, and just a little twee looking film got its start on Kickstarter, made a splash at Sundance, and is now heading to theaters through A24.
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"Good Omens" revolves around an angel, Aziraphale (Michael Sheen, combining twee with camp), a demon, Crowley (David Tennant channelling Bill Nighy in "Love Actually"), and the end of the world.
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The twee masterpiece Moonrise Kingdom centered almost explicitly around music, and the second movement of Maurice Ravel's "String Quartet in F major" basically is the essence of The Royal Tenenbaums.
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"Molly's Lips" and "Son of a Gun" might be Vaselines covers, but it's hard not to hear them that way, especially compared to the twee-ful temperament of the originals.
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Another is a rocketship in space with a nasty windshield gash that you need to fix (among other things) so that it's twee astronauts can survive and continue their mission.
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MALKA "Moving Together" MALKA makes Scottish music in the grand tradition of indie rock stalwarts the Belle & Sebastian, the Pastels, and Snow Patrol: catchy, a bit twee, a lot singable.
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Hence denim was quilted with fabrics in twee floral prints, punkish leather biker jackets were worn with pencil skirts, and square-shouldered tailoring was accessorized with little leather watch caps.
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In some ways, it was bad news for smaller grocery chains, twee ones especially, and other fresh food startups who've been working on logistics of delivering fresh food to people.
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With western college credentials and an all-caps name like CIFIKA, the alternately Seoul- and London-based OOHYO debuted in 2014 with an EP of cozy, confident, fleetingly twee keyboard tunes.
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This hay-colored little dome comes twee AS FUCK in a tiny, cute-ass little crate, through which you can peek-a-little-boo-boo at its groovy, extra-wavy exterior.
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Insomniacs can write twee lists of their blessings until the cows come home, but their cortisol levels will still tend to look as if they're gearing up to storm the Bastille.
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This twee presentation is destined for Instagram, the idea of perfume as a behatted little friend with a jaunty name that might wink at you from your vanity while you sleep.
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And while they aren't cosplayers, or historical reenactors, or steampunk enthusiasts—they're something different—some people undoubtedly dislike them on sight because they associate the Chrismans with those unpopular twee subcultures.
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Squash has long been synonymous with prep school, with being weedy and twee, and the most heinous clubs maintain an all-whites rule that encompasses the skin tone of their members.
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"We&aposll have lovely food and really good music, but there won&apost be two men in tuxedos on a cake, white doves or anything twee or contrived like that," Coyle said.
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Using a Raspberry Pi, web interfaces, and Python, Spencer programmed these old machines to knit digital images, like some delightfully twee riff on a 3D printer, documenting the process on her blog.
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Audiences who find Wes Anderson unbearably twee and precious have no business watching 306 Hollywood, which mimics his visual precision, his obsession with order and presentation, and his peppy, intense, recursive soundtracks.
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Their relationship is charming and just on the right side of twee, but it's also fundamentally tragic — and because Ned and Chuck can never touch, their relationship can never be fully resolved.
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The music itself is 100 percent pop, although there's a creepy edge that simmers beneath the surface, and her pastel-colored, cutesy aesthetic is vaguely fetishistic, like a twee, Tumblr-fed lolita.
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It sounds like the premise of a twee children's book, but it's actually the true story of Korabl-Sputnik 19613, a Soviet spacecraft that launched 56 years ago, on August 19, 1960.
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He is known for introducing the notion of "literate programming," emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans as well as computers — a notion that nowadays seems almost twee.
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You don't want to become Manhattan (too dense), Portland (too twee), Boston (too expensive), Seattle (too tech-y), Houston (too sprawling), Los Angeles (too congested), Las Vegas (too speculative), Chicago (too indebted).
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Daisy Jones Releasing a "twee" indie Christmas track that doesn't make you vom sausage rolls all over your ironic reindeer woollens is no mean feat, so big up Best Coast and Wavves.
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And too much of the staging had the twee surrealism of a Michel Gondry film: A man in a suit and bowler hat flew across the stage with a typewriter, and Mrs.
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Whenever the show threatened to get twee, it veered toward spooky grandeur: an assault on Akhnaten's temple is headed by a Grand Guignol general wearing a top hat capped by a skull.
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Twee as this all sounds on paper, you'd be hard-pressed to hear these songs, much less witness the 20163-year-old deliver them live, without feeling the prick of genuine emotion.
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The Brooklyn-based Finch's work can often edge into twee (see: sunset-colored ice cream), yet does have a core earnestness for engaging his audience with surprising moments of connection with nature.
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Opened in 2013 as an antidote to the twee aesthetic overtaking Brooklyn nightspots, Bossa Nova Civic Club is a divey tiki bar that makes no bones about its sweaty, dance-party intentions.
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A twee, ruthless form of capitalism looms over every exchange between these superb cast members, but for the most part we learn about this world from the hopes and anxieties of Tacoma's characters.
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Kate Nash is a British singer-songwriter who appeared on the scene in 2007, during the height of the "twee" aesthetic, and she played into it even while turning it on its head.
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All the old favorites are here: Erotic Art Collecting Squirrel, who, just as a twee art-collecting couple acquires a statue called "Le Sonata du Mon Twat Fromage," messily explodes from their heads.
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The trio turned heads during a yacht trip earlier this summer, posing on jet skis in cheeky numbers that scrapped last year's retro, twee swimwear trend in favor of something decidedly more Baywatch.
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So it is with the members of Kota Yamazaki's Fluid Hug-Hug (twee name, but never mind) in "Darkness Odyssey Part 2: I or Hallucination," performed this week at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
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It leans into all of season one's worst impulses: It's just a little too twee and whimsical, and a little too focused on romantic relationships at the expense of the core familial relationships.
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We talked about music in Britain in the '50s, and did lots of research, and among all this slightly twee, pastoral, folksy stuff, Britten really stood out for having the darkness to it.
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It's the kind of document Wes Anderson could only dream of making as a film prop, but subverts the twee-ness that often results from intentionally trying to make something so naively styled.
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But as the above video shows, Futura wasn't always the darling of twee design: It started as an idealistic German's vision for the future of type — at least until the Nazis made other plans.
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This voiceover tactic could seem twee, but it's handled just lightly enough to be mostly humorous, and it manages to crack some of the conventional ways we might expect these stories to be told.
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By then Dev was performing slick, 80s-sounding synth tracks under the name Blood Orange, clearly now way more into squelching funk grooves and electronics than ferocious punk chords or twee, folk-pop acoustics.
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I'd listened to the album it's based on years before the movie came out, and I find it hard to turn down the offer of a super-twee musical with Belle and Sebastian's aesthetic.
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In fact, it pretty much sounds like a reinterpretation of similarly twee One Direction deep cut "I Want to Write You a Song", which had the added corniness of a pencil scratching against paper.
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Since the 23000s, Mr. Barnes has shepherded the group's revolving cast of characters through twee, synth pop and funk-laced earworms, and the group's visceral performances often more nearly resemble stage plays than concerts.
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As a people, being awkward defines the British more than "tea" or "queuing" or any of the twee stuff you'll find in listicles titled "23 British Quirks Every 'Sherlock' Fan Knows to Be True".
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Bill Wyman's song "In Another Land" is a pointed sendup of twee psychedelia, as its sweet harpsichord-backed verse gets a rude awakening in the chorus, and "On With the Show" bristles with sarcasm.
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A full skirt in a just-this-side-of-twee print, a blush pink sweater, retro-cool cat-eyes and — most important — saddle shoes will help you get away with good old-fashioned plotting.
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The easiest way to identify a bachelorette party is by their matching T-shirts, emblazoned with Nashville-inflected slogans in twee calligraphy ("When I Sip You Sip We Sip"; "BOOTS and BOOZE and THE BRIDE").
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It is, therefore, a simple decision for any viewer: regardless of the actual plot, acting, set design, or any other aspect of the content of "Good Omens", those who like twee will like the show.
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To that end, British clowns have developed a system that sits at the exact intersection of twee whimsy and nightmarish menace that makes clowns such an enduring fixture in both children's entertainment and horror movies.
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His films are more stylized, too, as if Baumbach's sometime collaborator Wes Anderson had gone the other way through the fun-house mirror, not toward twee settings and uplift but headlong into claustrophobic domestic dread.
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In a society where God is definitively dead, and the age of Aquarius now seems twee, a belief in the power afforded by manipulating the internet and personal computation has risen to near religious levels.
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And where Farrow & Ball made an art out of twee names (Elephant's Breath, anyone?), Clare and Backdrop give it an on-trend spin: Clare's natural green is Avocado Toast; Backdrop's warm beige is Palo Santo.
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" Unlike the twee genre paintings of the era, engravings in illustrated newspapers depicted starving Irishwomen as abject Madonnas, their pathos augmented by the medium's "coarse network of cross-hatchings … its lack of nuance or subtlety.
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Helmed by the singer-songwriter Lyris Faron, this recording project cultivates a twee aesthetic and bright, singsongy sound similar to that of the New York-based jangle-pop band T-Rextasy, which Faron also fronts.
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On Tuesday, Fox Searchlight debuted a brand-new clip from Wes Anderson's upcoming stop-motion film Isle of Dogs—and only Anderson could make a dogfight over a moldy rice cake look this twee and fanciful.
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Located in a twee movie-set version of the city, complete with a fountain, café and overpriced bistro, it could easily pass for the real thing, were it not for the diminutive scale and cheerful waiters.
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For 20 years, in song, on stage, and in videos, the band has dealt almost exclusively in haymakers: soaring hooks, one-liners that cut to the quick, giddy, carefree dance, and a decidedly twee multimedia presence.
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If twee and hipster culture was a backlash to the bling and brand names of the aughts, domestic cozy is a rejection of the aspirational lifestyle aesthetic and the monetization of every hour of the day.
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If you're interested in getting ahold of one of these twee EVs from our friendly neighbors to the north, you can now place a fully refundable $194.11 US ($250 Canadian) deposit for the SOLO online at electrameccanica.com.
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At 6:30, our server, whose affability pleasantly undermined his twee polka-dot bow tie, moved us beneath a sprawling mimosa tree to a table for two draped in white linen, and turned up the heat lamp.
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It walked right up to the line between charming and twee, and occasionally may have put a toe over that line, but by and large it was one of the most absorbing games I played all year.
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Swanky, aggressively twee "speakeasies" staffed with bow-tied mixologists, sports bars with way too many taps, faux dives where you pay for the atmosphere, nondescript been-there-forever joints that are just places to sit and drink.
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A lot of it falls into two camps: it's either twee indie songwriting where it's about some girl who's perfect and runs through fucking flowery fields, or it's like, 'She done me wrong, she's a bitch-whore.
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The Hitler Youth training scenes gave off strong "evil Moonlight Kingdom" vibes, and the combination of twee with a decent heaping of darkness feels a lot like The Grand Budapest Hotel or, more indirectly, The Royal Tenenbaums.
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Since computers have no souls (yet) and can't measure, say, the wondrousness of Oscar Wao's life or the twee-ness of a Miranda July story, you might take this analysis of fiction with a grain of salt.
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Unlike the 17-foot-long CT6, which is large enough inside to seat Shaquille O'Neal and all of his gigantic kids, the Jag has enough room for two twee Brits and maybe a Valencia orange in the trunk.
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We saw the same thing back at Castle Black: It's in the GIF-ready look Tormund gives Brienne; it's in Brienne's assessment of Jon Snow's single characteristic ("a bit brooding"); and in Sansa's twee, Etsy-looking wolf shirt.
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It's a film with a seemingly twee and homespun title sequence that actually took eight months and involved repeatedly running high-def photos "through a 'bad Xerox machine' 'til they looked nearly hand-drawn," according to director Jason Reitman.
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Either way, Etsy was perfectly tailored to the movement at the time: an agora for the whimsical and the twee (crocheted toilet paper, anyone?), as well as for the useful and the beautiful, like handmade clothing, ceramics and furniture.
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It seems fair to impute at least some of Nuno's energetic contempt to de la Pava himself: This twee fucker in a vest, the kind of douche who corrects someone calling him a writer by specifying he's a novelist.
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That twee tone can veer too close to the muted humorists at The New Yorker, which is aggressively satirized in another recent example of literary humor, The Neu Jorker, a meticulously realized 80-page parody of that media institution.
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Don't even get me started on why we need a moratorium on the twee and overly familiar descriptor "baby bump," which effectively disassociates a woman from a part of her anatomy while also making her sound like a Teletubby.
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"Young Han Solo" may be a bit too twee for this day and age, but it explains everything you need to know about the film (and references that other prequel to a Harrison Ford portrayal, ABC's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles).
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The comparison between Sufjan's performance — twee and beautiful, in the way things not already industrialized by Hollywood can be — is easily compared to Elliott Smith's in 1998, when he was nominated for "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack.
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A Rolling Stone interview around the release of What Will We Be labeled Banhart the "high priest of the LA freak folk scene" and revealed in him an earthy twee that might have been insufferable if it didn't also seem genuine.
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Thursday evening, Entertainment Weekly posted about that exchange (as well as a few other celebs who responded to the SNL host hashtag) and expressed disappointment that a video hadn't accompanied Bloom's twee t… and the Golden Globe winner responded via Twitter.
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Other inclusions in "Property" are puzzling; "The Self-Seeding Sycamore", "The Royal Male" and "Negative Equity", despite their sometimes eclectic lexicon, are neatly droll, erring-on-twee stories depriving the reader of breadth of vista or, indeed, Ms Shriver's reassuring bite.
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I'm not gonna say this isn't what it sounds like (a kinda twee movie with a manic pixie dream girl problem) based on the name alone, but it definitely isn't exactly what it sounds like, because it's also about aliens.
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Inside the CD booklet there's a picture of the Modesto Arch that has the words "Water, Wealth, Contentment, Health" printed across it in its early twentieth century twee capitalist enthusiasm and another of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
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Hadley Hooper's illustrations — in a breezy, twee territory not far from William Bee and Ed Fotheringham — move us all around the park, zooming in on blades of grass or rising to an aerial view as Lizzie gets bolder and bolder.
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While most people think twee, unsustainable small business when they hear Brooklyn, these zones play an integral part of the regional economy, acting as a pipeline for well-paying jobs, and a source of goods and services for companies citywide.
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Twee but with substance and backbone, Izzy True's sound layers comforting melodic structures with jangly guitar that is just as at home on the present day indie rock spectrum as it would have been in the 90s on Merge Records.
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The cast on view under the direction of Bijan Sheibani commendably refuses to succumb to the twee but, as of opening night at least, had not entirely mastered the art of playing teenagers without in some way standing outside the parts.
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The décor is a collection of twee, timeworn signifiers for the L train set (think beadboard, yellowing maps, exposed brick and lots of wood), although the Gray Mare is at the southern edge of the East Village's Second Avenue bar crawl.
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The Derby tweets were the ones in which Embiid reminded us that for all his maybe- just-this-side-of-twee charm online, he could also easily crush our skulls in the palms of his enormous, enormous hands if he wanted to.
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The shop is run by him, a 38-year-old Memphis native who keeps barbecue sauce in the back fridge and who affectionately uses the words "chief" and "dude," not by a twee old British man whom many tourists ask to meet.
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With its twee name and Etsy-fied graphic design (the "i" in "TinyLetter" is sometimes dotted with a heart), it's more of a small-batch brew tailored to the creative class, particularly those seeking to hone their prose skills in a semipublic forum.
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MELISSA You haven't specified, but I suspect your outrage is fueled by animal cruelty concerns — hunters on horseback and packs of hounds chasing after defenseless little foxes — and not by the absurd Anglophilia of twee riding breeches, fitted blazers and velvet caps.
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Basically, celebs with already enviable hair flock to her because she knows how to mix in elements one might not immediately associate with allure — headbands, '40s sets, half-up styles — and make them sexy (not twee) through texture, volume, and a casual, undone finish.
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This game, the long-awaited follow-up to Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP by Capy, is a slow, dark, tense descent into a mysterious cave; it's almost totally wordless and shown with a pulled-back perspective that makes things feel both twee and terrifying.
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I hate to mention it but if I don't mention it it's notable by its absence: "International Tweexcore Underground," which is abysmal, and was meant to be sarcastic but then I think it stopped being sarcastic… We did invite the "twee" label upon ourselves.
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There was quippy sidekick Michael (David Krumholtz), doe-eyed and floppy-haired new kid Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), effortlessly and often infuriatingly twee Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), the tragically underrated Mandella (Susan May Pratt), and of course, the mewling, rampallian wretch herself, Kat (Julia Stiles).
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Like deep affect, constantly in that mode, either hyper solemn and depressed and serious or very twee and like you know trying to be charming by dropping references or by you know doing basically word games with people constantly, you know what I mean?
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It's been four long years since Allison Williams first introduced the world to Hannah Horvath's best friend Marnie and proceeded to alternately entertain and infuriate fans with her blind optimism, too real for comfort singing career, and on-again, off-again twee romance with her bandmate.
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His view of Scotland continues to be defined by caricature, from the two bagpipers that serenaded his entourage as they walked about to the continual twee evocation of his mother's heritage, without even bothering to find out which way the country had voted in the EU referendum.
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Despite the show's vaguely existential feel, Search Party is very much a comedy (it was co-created by Michael Showalter, alongside Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers) of the twee, Brooklyn-centric, whimsical kind that mines at-times uncomfortable laughs from New Age cults and nosy neighbors.
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Like frequenting brand-new bars with dark wood paneling and twee banjo performances on Thursday nights or collecting tin signs with the names of long-shuttered corner stores, it plays into a fantasy — a piece of 19th-century history that you can buy in the Urban Outfitters checkout line.
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This makes "Fox 8" an artifact of a slightly more twee atmosphere than people will tolerate lately, and it's certainly full of the standard jokes of the modern animal narrator: A typing canid is almost always unfailingly enthusiastic, easily delighted, easily confused and highly optimistic in its spelling.
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It could be the beginning of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, before the inevitable darkness seeps in, but rather it's the backdrop of a budding aesthetic movement called cottagecore, where tropes of rural self-sufficiency converge with dainty décor to create an exceptionally twee distillation of pastoral existence.
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This put a pretty substantial limitation on my fill options (as it turns out, O is a very useful letter in crossword puzzle constructing), so the grid isn't quite as clean as I would like (see TWEE crossing ENE), but I think it mostly came out all right — eventually.
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Gondry's sensibilities are so distinct that they've been the subject of numerous parodies — for the most part, they double down on stop-motion animation, puppets, objects that swiftly become quite literally larger than life, and a certain twee-ness that's nonetheless too wild to be compared to Wes Anderson.
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Jones's iridescent Easter egg of a suit is a perfect balance between festive and sober: That playful, joyous fabric would be on the verge of overly sweet or even twee in a gown, but the dapper cut of the suit is just businesslike enough to make it work for Jones.
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Just like "FloriDada," the album's first single, the bulk of the songs that make up the band's response to 2012's somewhat critically doubted Centipede Hz are a kaleidoscopic mix of frenetically layered studio tricks, off-kilter atmospheric effects, and vocals that are both fidgety and twee, caffeinated and sugary.
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Yet the Future Library begins to look less twee, less inattentive, when one considers the bonfire that consumed 40,000 books in Alexandria in 48 B.C. or, this summer, the stray paper lantern that set the Museu Nacional of Brasil on fire, destroying manuscripts and artifacts collected over two hundred years.
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On the surface, it's a modern fairy tale about a woman seeking to acquire an actual unicorn, after receiving an offer from The Salesman (Samuel L. Jackson in a wonderful pink suit and Beyoncé -inspired tinsel hair), owner of The Store, a place filled with hay, ice cream, and other delightfully twee items.
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The Brooklyn band doesn't have a management team sculpting their brand, or a consistent message, or even an easy genre tag—they've been called "twee" and "surf" and "riot grrrl," but those labels don't quite fit, since the musical style varies wildly depending on which of the band's four songwriters penned the track.
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The Australian duo broke out in 2008, emerging alongside M83, Miike Snow, Owl City, and pre-oontz Calvin Harris as part of the late 00s twee-DM wave—that soft-around-the-edges crossover between the last gasp of indie rock and the incoming electronic takeover best described as Garden State: The Next Generation.
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There is nothing tame or twee or sanitized about any of this stuff and, for me, it's in this version of the English pastoral that Watership Down resides—it's a story that understands the country as a place so full of threat, and where death is so close to hand, that life seems at its most precious.
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The right-leaning think-tank also argues that the market alone cannot solve the problem because it is dominated by vested interests, such as giant housebuilding companies (the only ones with the time and resources to negotiate the complicated planning laws) and architects (who for the most part subscribe to modernism and look down on what they regard as "twee" designs).
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It seems trite and twee to paint it as the difference between artisanal makers and mass-market producers (Essential is still hoping to make at least a million of these in its first year, after all), but there's a dynamism and vitality, along with a sense of personal investment on the part of Essential's employees, that also make it an apt comparison.
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Whether or not you've spent the entire six hours with A Year in the Life just yet, you've likely had the chance to reminiscence, catch up, or introduce yourself to the Gilmore girls in all their twee sartorial glory, and its shades of Connecticut, all things prep school, or that period in Taylor Swift's life when she was dating a Kennedy.
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But not only have they asked Belle and Sebastian heads about the cruise (a simple query on Twitter would not be on brand enough for the Twee-est Band in Indie Rock, after all), but they've set up a very organized Survey Monkey poll, so that the fans can really sound off about the idea of a Belle and Sebastian cruise.
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Arte Povera isn't the only ghost of midcentury modernism inhabiting the project — there's the twee cafe, with its Formica furniture and veneered wood paneling; the new tower restaurant, with its furniture bought at auction from New York's Four Seasons; the cinema, with chairs imported from '70s-era Milanese movie houses; and the sun-baked, deeply shadowed squares, conjuring up de Chirico.
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Football and literary references sit side-by-side in their lyrics, which are both sincerely poetic and self-deprecating; the "twee" label they were slapped with (for, presumably, featuring female vocals, a glockenspiel, and none of the tragic, thrusting machismo that indie lad-rock brought to the table) helped map them initially but undercut the experimental and often somber pop of everything that followed their first album.
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Letter from the Editor Every year, when the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, there's usually an article or two published about which past recipients' works have failed to stand the test of time — say, those of Pearl S. Buck, the first American woman to win the award, whose 1930s novels about Chinese peasant life now read as twee and patronizing Orientalist fairy tales.
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The hissing, static-veiled quality of his home recordings (many were done on a $59 boombox) would come to influence the sounds of early-aughts twee acts like The Microphones and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, which then came to manifest genres like chillwave (think the played-from-outside-your-window reverberation of early Washed Out) and even bedroom rap (the DIY, "yep, i'm sad" sensibilities of Lil Peep and XXXTentacion).
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A lot has been written about this decade's moral whitewashing of the English countryside—how it's become a place painted polite by people looking to sell things: companies selling cider; Mumford & Sons selling records; internet dating sites selling a twee facsimile of love via Hobbit-looking ukulele dickheads; The Great British Bake Off selling dull evenings in; the Tory government selling its own authenticity through the landowner fantasy of power born-to-rule.
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J.P. Let me offer you some free advice: reject a universe in which Maroon 5 swaps its usual not-always-unpleasant twee pop-soul for somnolent tropical house; guard your eyes from the group as it feels secure enough to attempt a concept video about … the celebrity grind, I guess; pray that the brainwashing required to convince Kendrick Lamar to contribute a dumbed-down verse still five times too smart for this song is only temporary.
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"Love and War and Snow" (season 1, episode 8) This is one of those very early episodes where we can see the show really figuring out its formula: The town will have some aggressively, endearingly twee event — in this case, keeping vigil in the snow to reenact a Revolutionary War battle that almost happened — and Luke will grumpily tend to everyone's welfare while Rory and Lorelai deal with mild romantic drama and interference from Emily and Richard.
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Zoé de Las Cases and Benjamin Dewé, a French interior designer couple, were shocked when they discovered that Airbnb had replicated the design of an apartment that they listed on the platform for a meeting room in the company's San Francisco corporate office, down to a trio of faux-industrial pendant lights, a twee chalkboard, and a floating shelf full of almost identical art objects (in 2012 Airbnb itself had rented Las Cases and Dewé's space to host a party).
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