Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old form of
artery. Marlowe .
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- adjective
comparative form ofarty : morearty
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Examples
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I just read an interview where you said that, because the studio balked at Anchorman 2, you've got time to do artier films like Everything Must Go.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Everything Must Go Marshall Fine 2011
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On an artier front, we looked into the soul of an Atari 2600 and what we saw was very similar to late artist Jeremy Blake's digital art output, saw the most sinister (ly cute?) art-game to ever spring from Unreal Tournament, and saw fantastic pixel-chic fineries.
Boing Boing 2009
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He personally coined it his 'Wal-Mart film' after the artier and more personal Unbreakable was ill-received by mass audiences, but it's still a potent and often terrifying piece of work.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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Past the “disaster porn” of 2012and the artier, comparatively restrained melancholy of The Road, three new postapocalyptic thrillers debutjust after the new year.
Previews: Daybreakers, The Book of Eli, Legion « Screaming Blue Reviews 2009
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If you consider it arty to write an opera with the Knife, and to perform mysterious electronic music wearing a false nose, then one might concede that Janine Rostron, the British woman who records as Planningtorock does indeed operate at the artier end of things.
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Well, in writing it's similar: every other writer is either a hack (someone you look down upon because their writing is more commercial than yours) or an artiste (someone you look down upon because their writing is artier than yours).
Hacks and Artistes camillalexa 2009
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He personally coined it his 'Wal-Mart film' after the artier and more personal Unbreakable was ill-received by mass audiences, but it's still a potent and often terrifying piece of work.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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He personally coined it his 'Wal-Mart film' after the artier and more personal Unbreakable was ill-received by mass audiences, but it's still a potent and often terrifying piece of work.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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Whatever you write, I'll buy and read -- you have an artier sensibility than I do, so my suggestions wouldn't do you much good.
Pickled shrimp with lime | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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In fact, such expectations actually discourage actors from stretching or trying artier or more challenging works.
Scott Mendelson: Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, and Miley Cyrus Are Genuine Movie Stars 2010
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