Example sentences for: arty

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

  • Middle sister Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is the author of arty, titillating short stories and a magnet for studs and weight lifters; she resides in a dim high-rise down the corridor from two unrelated fatties, Kristina (Camryn Manheim) and Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

  • 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.

  • I was impatient with The Straight Story 's opening--the arty dissolves, the crawling pace, the sense of stasis.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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