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1 The energy in St. Mark’s fairly smoldered as soon as they strutted their stuff in and only intensified as Mr. Ninja wound his delicious limbs in archly elegant formations.

2 That includes the film’s most cited line, which is delivered directly and archly to the audience by Ms. Wynn.

3 Naked figures writhe in viscous space; women gaze archly out of chaos; an emaciated male is on the verge of being devoured by an octopus.

4 “You know I’m D.C.’s living legend,” shop owner and milliner Vanilla Beane replied archly.

5 It's a version of what might be called the "underwhelm" phenomenon – when journalists archly declare themselves to be "underwhelmed", as if informing the reader: do you see what I did?

6 She wants you to kill the child, "Temigast explained archly."

“她想要你杀了孩子。”泰米格斯特解释到。

7 Dani ultimately gets a measure of revenge—though even this, in Aster’s archly plotted script construction, offers Dani some mixed motives of her own, a measure of mercy along with her rage.

8 “Piety turns away with horror from so fearful an act of desecration,” he writes archly, yet facts are facts and metaphors are metaphors.

9 “No Dames!,” set in the archly named Swingin’ Dinghy, starts with a nod to sand dancing — performed on a floor sprinkled with sand — but instead of sand there are peanuts shells.

10 Michael J. Fox was archly entertaining, as usual, as Canning, and Bill Camp was fun to watch as the touchy-feely professor who was probably in the right but slimy nonetheless.

11 "You can't fool me," Shirley said archly.

“你骗不了我，”雪莉傲慢地说。

12 "I was a patient there," she announces, but archly refuses to say any more.

13 The theatrical styles of Underwood's smooth and mellifluous Othello and Thomas' rather archly villainous Iago aren't especially complementary.

14 “What does Webster’s say about soul?” he mused archly.

15 Just listening Klepper archly utter the words, “I’m woke!” is enough to elicit a spit take.

16 “Don’t even go down this road,” she says archly.

17 Every time Willie is onstage, something unexpected and marvelous happens: a kooky line reading, an archly raised eyebrow, a Kabuki grimace.

18 Though her diction was often unclear, Stravinsky is partly at fault for the sometimes awkward way he set the clever but archly poetic English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

19 The offbeat illustrator proves a rich subject for a play, and the writer-director Travis Russ’s “Gorey,” from the Life Jacket Theater Company at the Sheen Center, does his archly kooky world justice.

20 In “Agora,” her latest film, she returns to the Nile to play another woman of a scholarly bent — but that is where any similarity to the archly comic-horror “Mummy” series ends.

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