| The old lady chuckled, crumpled her lids, and went through the pantomime of archness. |
| There was something half painful in their jocund gayety and archness. |
| 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. |
| Her archness was a shade stiff, but her neck was one of her chief attractions. |
| I found this a satisfying device, teetering on archness, but successful in maintaining a playful tone. |
| There's a sense of delicacy and detail in his approach that saves it from descending into rarefied archness. |
