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The phrase "arty about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English. It typically means someone is excessively interested in or is trying to appear sophisticated and cultured in the arts. Example: She was always very arty about her taste in music, only listening to obscure indie bands and claiming to understand the deeper meaning behind their lyrics.
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There's something quite cool and arty about wearing glasses and smoking.
There is nothing arty about Mr. Dullaghan's film, which opened Friday.
Clean-cut bohemians might be the most accurate description, although there is nothing especially arty about their demeanor.
Part it and go down the basement steps, and you will emerge, probably surprised, into a softly lit cocktail bar where plenty of writers and artists go precisely because there is nothing arty about the place – just friendly service and good drinks, a mixed clientele and no dress code.
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Kate Plays Christine, Robert Greene's arty documentary about an actor struggling to inhabit Chubbuck; and Christine, Antonio Campos's moody character study, starring British actor Rebecca Hall as Chubbuck.
"Kartik," billed as India's first mumblecore movie, is full of them, and arty ideas (about narratives within narratives) and visuals (much soft focus, digital effects and blinking robots).
Pour Elle has a lot in common with her most personal role: Frankie (2005), a little-seen arty saga about a model who goes into psychiatric meltdown, scripted and directed by Kruger's best friend, Fabienne Berthaud.
Posted to a small town deep in the interior, he finds himself a foreigner in his own country, wary of cholera, defenseless against mosquitoes, and shocked by the sight of a tribal woman: "They exist, he shrieked silently, outside arty films about tribal exploitation and agrarian reform".
While Petra has a kind of arty eccentricity about her, and a "fierce triangle of hair that made her look like one of those Egyptian queens," Calder is never without his beloved set of pentominoes, which the author describes in a preface as "a mathematical tool consisting of 12 pieces," each one "made up of five squares that share at least one side".
And then he clams up because there's nothing arty-farty about Peter Cattaneo.
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