The archness fled from her smile, and her eyes grew pensive and far-seeing. |
She looked at him with a concern which was to me more engaging than her archness. |
Moreover, his fascination with B-movies, science fiction and the rest of pop culture was self-conscious but not qualified by archness or irony. |
Her archness was a shade stiff, but her neck was one of her chief attractions. |
There came an archness into her look that inflamed me the more. |
The archness doesn't really get in the way of the crime fighting, but it does lift this book from potentially boring to perfectly diversionary summer reading. |