| 11. | He offers an embarrassment of symbolic riches, and his prevailing Firbankian archness sometimes effects a tinkling queasiness of tone.
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| 12. | In this den of swinging'60s archness, Dyer the boy-toy lug doesn't stand a chance.
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| 13. | Imagine Du Bois, his notebooks, his Vandyke beard, his academic archness, sitting and listening to this farmer.
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| 14. | The comic archness is no problem, and Garber manages to unearth Fredrik's longing as the play draws on.
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| 15. | But there's a suffocating conceptual archness to " Personal Velocity " that smacks, finally, of condescension.
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| 16. | One always senses a bit of the knave in Mugler, and it was perhaps that archness that made the collection near perfect.
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| 17. | If Christie occasionally errs toward stiffness, his upright manner seems on the whole only to reinforce the archness of Rameau's humor.
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| 18. | Johnson is a particular standout, his archness and hints of bad-boy rocker behavior a winning complement to the sweetly funny Isaak.
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| 19. | In less capable hands, the trials of these lonely women in this light comedy of Upper West Side manners would be exercises in archness.
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| 20. | The performers'sense of play softens the archness, especially the eerily affecting McMillan and Rossellini, who's never been more besotting.
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