A whisper of archness, on one hand, or polemical earnestness, on the other, and the fine fabric of " Far Away " could unravel.
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Or will it be polluted by the self-parodying archness and pretension that led to last summer's colossal failure, " The Last Action Hero "?
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What he has nicely avoided is the tiresome archness and prissiness of so many of the Merchant-Ivory productions, movies that seem to do everything possible to avoid emotions.
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The evening also features two deliciously drawn performances from Laura Benanti ( as Cinderella ) and Gregg Edelman ( as her Prince ) that capture exactly the right balance of archness and anxiety.
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Perhaps Chernov's bizarre de-trousering at the beginning of Act III responds to the archness of Pushkin's world view; it is, in any case, a ghastly lapse in judgment.
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New York Timeswoman Maureen Dowd, the reigning Mistress of Archness on the Self-Obsessed Capital of the World, lobbed some genteel barbs, which McGrory returned with the same blend of sweetness and sarcasm.
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Janine's lonely single mom / tough cop dichotomy doesn't materialize despite several sequences designed to highlight it, and maneater Molly's archness quickly fades into a tiresome, roadshow Joanna Lumley act.
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Roger Ebert gave the film a one-star rating, criticizing it heavily for its portrayal of teenage sex : " The archness of their'innocence'toward sex is, finally, just plain dirty.
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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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The Lettermanesque archness that finds hilarity in the mundane is present in these skits, and so is a hyperbolic delight in the macabre, not surprising, given the prevalence of the violent and the sordid in contemporary culture.
