| 1. | Mary Jackson, with archness in her voice, deflected the question.
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| 2. | The film mostly sustains its archness despite such hints at a lecturing tone.
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| 3. | And just her point of view, sometimes her archness, is cause for comedy.
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| 4. | It's a split that defines the difference between style and substance, archness and art.
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| 5. | But the ripe street vernacular of early Mamet has been replaced by perfumed locutions of improbable archness.
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| 6. | Also, major league pop hooks from Ocasek and a Roxy Music-like archness and textural sensibility.
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| 7. | "Con Air " is hardly the first movie to bring archness to ack-ack.
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| 8. | Goodhew's archness wears thin, leaving no room for the pathos that these last scenes require.
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| 9. | Anna Paquin has had more than enough time to grow out of prepubescent precocity and into adolescent archness or awkwardness.
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| 10. | By the mid-19th century, the vehement expostulation had acquired a connotation of archness associated with elitist gentlewomen.
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