10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARTY-CRAFTY»
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arty-crafty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Cotswolds: A Cultural History
“Arty Crafty” Lifestyles Arts and Crafts in the Cotswolds had their comic aspects.
In Chipping Campden some of the arty incomers adopted what they took to be a “
rustic” style of dress, with knickerbockers and flannel shirts for men, and smocks ...
2
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... virginal con cunning, insidious, sly, wily; calculating, designing, intriguing,
scheming; artificial, insincere ant artful; affected arty adj syn PRETENTIOUS 3,
arty-crafty, big, high-sounding, imposing, overblown arty-crafty adj syn
PRETENTIOUS ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
3
Cauchy3 - Catchy Poems: 1-2-3-Darkness
Arty crafty worlds . . . Arty crafty rule our worlds. Over steps are pushy bosses.
Over play are common hands. More on primes have prides to act. Promise
takings get your earth. Hit your laws as ball on beans. Small to prints are talking
laws.
4
The Shoelace Problem & Other Puzzles
Illustrators such as Kit Williams and Mike Wilks have used objects and animals
hidden within seemingly normal illustrations to create amazingly subtle puzzles.
In this puzzle, the art style is more akin to Mondrian! A ARTY-CRAFTY How hug ...
5
Chi-thinking: Chiasmus and Cognition
CATCHY, OFTEN CRAFTY, BUT NOT NECESSARILY HIGH ARTY-CRAFTY
Chiasmus is ubiquitous and exceedingly ordinary. Because it is exceedingly
ordinary, it is ubiquitous. If attuned to, yet not in fact on the look out for the AB:BA
...
Patricia Ann Lissner, 2007
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Cf.: azt'y-and-crafty; arty-crafty. Artistic but not notably useful or comfortable: coll.:
resp. 1902 and ca. 1920. OED. Arty Bishops, the. See Bishops, the. arty roller. A
collar: Aus. rhyming s.: since ca. 1910. B., 1945. arvo. Afternoon: Aus.: C.20.
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The Cultured Handmaiden
That his mother's affection was weighed in his direction didn't seem to make up
for the indifference towards him shown by his father: too arty-crafty was the term
he used about him, and later made it obvious that he would never be any good in
...
8
Screening Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V
It was, in fact, this sequence that prompted those remarks by Cedric Messina
about "arty-crafty" shooting, which I have already quoted. After discussing what
he saw as the healthy habit of shooting for fifteen minutes without a break,
Messina ...
9
The Rough Guide to England
Spitalfields, Commercial Street (Sun; Liverpool Street tube), is an arty-crafty
market similar to Camden, but on a much smaller scale, which also offers organic
fruit and veg. Nearby, Brick Lane (Sun; Aldgate East, Shoreditch or Liverpool
Street ...
Rough Guides (Firm)., 2004
10
Chronicle of Singapore, 1959-2009: Fifty Years of Headline News
See also 1983. speech, MP for Anson C.V. Devan Nair ridiculed “arty-crafty types
”, a minority group of writers and literary critics who eschewed materialism and
technology. These “posturing humbugs” were out of touch with Singapore's ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARTY-CRAFTY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
arty-crafty is used in the context of the following news items.
Folk heroes
It spills into the arty-crafty pre-fall collections in the form of shaggy, patchwork coats and peasant dresses that wouldn't look out of place at the ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
Maurice Hamilton: Battle of the F1 TV channels
With the luxury of time to play with, both sides went arty-crafty when formulating their introductions. SkyF1 presented a moody image with "Rage ... «ESPN, Apr 15»
Michelle Obama, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun? Why the Sulk
And/or distressed, disenfranchised women. Make an obligatory chakkar of the Dilli Haat. And go home loaded with arty-crafty junk. Michelle did ... «NDTV, Jan 15»
Visual arts: Commercial galleries adapt to rise of the fairs
... developed on the model of the seasonal art-and-craft fair, with all the attendant arty-crafty associations. There's nothing wrong with such fairs, ... «Irish Times, Oct 14»
Dream Gardens: It's time for pots of fun
NOWADAYS the homemade, arty-crafty look is big news and even if you're not weaving a rustic fence or nailing spare tree branches together to ... «Express.co.uk, Aug 14»
Fifteen-thousand new homes planned for Ebbsfleet "Garden City"
The term garden city might evoke visions of genteel, arty-crafty Kentish folk tending allotments, yet what is proposed between Bluewater and ... «Homes & Property, Apr 14»
It Hugs Back - Recommended Record
... readers slobber over, any reasonable person could easily mistake London-based foursome It Hugs Back and their arty-crafty pipecleaners 'n' ... «musicOMH.com, May 13»
How We Met: Sir Jonathan Miller & Barrie Rutter
What I like about Barrie is that he's straightforward with no silly arty-crafty pretensions. I'm particularly pleased with how he's helped get rid of all ... «The Independent, Jan 13»
Do we all dream of life in a garden city?
If garden cities were seen as arty-crafty, middle class, and the antithesis of heavy-duty manufacturing towns such as Crewe and Swindon, the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 12»
Eating Out: Theoretically, it's Theo's!
There are several arty-crafty shops dotted around the property and then a little oasis of manicured green lawn, lovely roses and a picture ... «The Zimbabwe Standard, Sep 12»
