"Why Am I So Single?" is about two young writers – best friends and plainly based on Marlow and Moss – who are trying to ...

For Matt, the idea was kids telling stories. Sam decided it should be more about the archness of the stories themselves. It gave us a chance to be even weirder and break out of the sitcom form we ...

Yet the traits I have associated with the "storybook" manner may help to explain the archness of Hawthorne's allusions, the idle reverie that clouds up his mere sketches, the sometimes coy ...

This has its own small unity and a nice little humorousness at the end; but the structure weakens, the sturdiness of tone evaporates and the humor turns into mere archness when we read it this way ...

An evocative but nebulous term, this short history attempts to outline some of the key players and ideas from the genre. Part of the problem is that “art rock” has all too often served as a ...

He experiences venerable cinematic forms from the inside, with an ingenuous spontaneity and an emotional responsiveness that dispel all irony and foreclose any archness. He makes classic-infused ...

There are many good things about the modern world of streaming, but we’ve got to say it’s still such a pleasing feeling when a buzzy film comes to streaming without making you wait for a ...

Because that kind of experience is a meditation, and when the archness is balanced with as much sincerity of musicianship and expression as you get here, it can be a shared meditation. The potentially ...

"Few things are more tiresome than seeing a joke analyzed. . . . Beard’s book avoids pedantry but also its opposite, the archness that preens itself on 'not taking humor too seriously' and signals ...

The staccato string arrangements bring just the right blend of archness and accessibility to all of them. As Reed suggested, “It Was a Pleasure Then” grew out of a wild, avant-garde improv ...

Now, they are buzzing with memes, videos and messages of congratulation, but also a strain of sceptical archness. So what does a glimpse inside some of these private chat domains tell us about ...