Sentence examples for somewhat arch from inspiring English sources

Under Sanders, to be somewhat arch, the daily press briefing has evolved into the monthly press berating.

"Ford Pardons Nixon, Who Regrets 'My Mistakes'," blared the New York Times the next day in a somewhat arch headline.

Compared to Mr. Harris's and Mr. Kuchar's works, the films in this program seem somewhat arch and self-conscious.

Greg Hicks, though, finds a streak of grim camp comedy in Caesar's here somewhat arch and petty-seeming attempts to conceal encroaching frailty behind a grandiose public image.

The opening dance quartet of Neil Greenberg's new "(like a vase)," at Dance Theater Workshop on Tuesday night, has a low-key air, cultivated but quirky, mildly camp and somewhat arch.

Hello! weathered the sales storm somewhat better than arch rival OK!, with circulation down 5.4% period on period and 14.6% year on year to 352,985.

The same researchers reported several years ago that walking barefoot is associated with lower knee loads than walking with shoes, perhaps because the unshod foot flexes and pronates (rolls in somewhat, so the arch gives) in a more natural fashion.

It is an arch and somewhat disappointing story, perhaps because Clareese is so lacking in self-knowledge.

Gratitude at hearing Marlowe's virtually unknown play was somewhat tempered by the arch infantilism of Tim Carroll's modern-dress production, which seemed to be influenced less by the spirit of Virgil's Aeneid than that of Enid Blyton.

Mic Mills at the broker Capital Index, commented: "The shine may dull somewhat on the Golden Arches".

Start by heading southeast on Setthathirat Street, with its regal colonial villas, before turning left on Lanexang Avenue, which leads to Patuxai arch, Vientiane's somewhat shoddy version of the Arc de Triomphe.