Elegiac and archly insightful, the quality of the writing displays a striking talent, and one that stays in the memory long after the varied merits of the performances fade. |
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This most expatiatory and archly loquacious of novelists is obliged to hold the reins tight. |
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Conversations with friends are archly intellectual, more sporting than serious. |
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And modern stained glass is amply precedented in the area: there are rather archly showy examples by Augusto Giacometti, a nephew of Alberto, in the Grossmünster, and by Marc Chagall, in the Fraumünster, a nearby church. |
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Phoebe lay down by me, and ask'd me archly if, now that I had seen the enemy, and fully considered him, I was still afraid of him? |
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But, from the start, D'Ambrose tells this story in an allusive, elliptical, symbolic, and archly comedic way — a way that's both derivative and original, quotational and personal. |
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Investment bankers archly observe that judgments on which bit of the business is the casino ought to be withheld until the end of the credit cycle. |
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In the 1960s, rock musician Tuli Kupferberg and his bandmates archly named their group The Fugs. |
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Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality. |
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That the series archly referenced such modern-day scandals as Enron and, in its loonily bizarre finale, Halliburton, will likely be lost on most voters and viewers. |
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Margaret Thatcher tried to do it again, digging in her heels, lecturing archly on her achievements, illuminating our European partners on the superior virtue of her ways. |
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Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter. |
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