| When that whole emphasis on arts was brought in five years ago, everyone pooh-poohed it as being, you know, arty-farty nonsense. |
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| I don't see many arty-farty bodies supporting, say, writers of romantic fiction. |
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| I don't think it would go down very well and would be seen as another arty-farty scheme. |
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| It sounded like the sort of soaring, gorgeous, melancholy stuff Radiohead used to write before they got too arty-farty to bother with tunes. |
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| My publishers are farting around at the moment but they will bring it out in a kind of lavishly tooled arty-farty volume. |
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| One trait of his that I did find annoying however, was his consistent response to what he called airy-fairy or arty-farty explanations of how things worked. |
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| It would entirely upset my long-term image as an arty-farty anarchist. |
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| After checking in with the receptionist, I was directed to sit next to one of those pieces of modern installation art you typically see around arty-farty offices of late. |
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| He merely finds it difficult to understand what the two of them, the light-headed rich daughter and the arty-farty, pseudo-intellectual woman about town, see in each other. |
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| And then he clams up because there's nothing arty-farty about Peter Cattaneo. |
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| In a bid to protect its sodden chase track, Punchestown will today use its fences for only an arty-farty Grade 1 contest. |
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| Iknowitallsounds abit arty-farty but trust a bit arty-farty but trust me, it's brilliant the way they work. |
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| It's clever without being clever-clever, arty without being arty-farty. |
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| If anything, he had been prepared for a life of arty-farty posturing. |
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| At school I was arty-farty, somewhat sensitive and prone to exorbitant longings and extravagant demands. |
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| That arty-farty reputation of McQueen feels especially relevant this season, as the label's creative director Sarah Burton looked to early 20th century art for her inspiration. |
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| So it sounds as though he tunes into the late-night arty-farty show. |
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