Example sentences for: arty

How can you use “arty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I haven't seen Office Space , but a few years ago at the Burning Man festival, that annual West Coast orgy of all things arty and survivalist held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, I saw computer programmers gleefully blowing up old hard drives and monitors just for fun.

  • Such convolutions of phrasal meaning (an aspect of what some call intertextuality) is a common rhetorical device, especially perhaps at the arty end of journalism.

  • Led by arty kids such as Chris Hitchens, "Mo" Dowd, and Leon Wieseltier--who also edits the Washington literary magazine--the Dramatists profess disgust with everyone on the Hill and in the Gulch.

  • In arty circles, he's famous as the highbrow exhibitionist who wrote and starred in My Dinner With Andre , but there's more to Shawn than grandiose nerd angst.

  • Now that Leonardo Di Caprio has spurned Lions Gate Films and American Psycho , the production company is trying to lure back the director it had rudely kicked off the project, Mary Harron ( I Shot Andy Warhol ). Though the whole thing was her idea in the first place, she was dropped the minute Di Caprio expressed interest and turned an arty $10-million feature into a $40-million vehicle for himself.


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