artsiness

(link) Excessive artsiness is great when something actually happens: witness Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Royal Tenenbaums.

amuchmoreexotic: And another thing amuchmoreexotic 2004

For example, before I stepped inside Adams House for the first time, enough upperclassmen had either raved or warned me about its supposed "artsiness" that I thought I had an idea of what to expect from the residents.

The Harvard Crimson | All Articles Vidya Rajan 2010

For example, before I stepped inside Adams House for the first time, enough upperclassmen had either raved or warned me about its supposed "artsiness" that I thought I had an idea of what to expect from the residents.

The Harvard Crimson | All Articles Vidya Rajan 2010

The names they've chosen for the boy don't seem to fit with the "artsiness" of Syrus Eugene, though,

Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

Her affinity for what she calls "artsiness" stands her in good stead among her current clientele.

unknown title 2009

Her affinity for what she calls "artsiness" stands her in good stead among her current clientele.

unknown title 2009

I swear there was nothing Jungian about it–except maybe the vague artsiness of it.

John wasn’t turned on by CHLOE | Obsessed With Film 2010

Put together, the film becomes Gesamtkunstwerk at the level of Wagner's Nibelungen cycle or Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy: a total, totally absorbing work of art that delights and also exercises the senses, the cortical emotions, the intellect - and achieves this feat without loudly advertising its intent or, for that matter, its artsiness.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Andreadis Unibrow Theory of Art 2010

I don't feel much of a connection with her, though I'm unduly pleased, in a slight and pretentious way, by the artsiness.

Doppelganger Becca 2008

I don't feel much of a connection with her, though I'm unduly pleased, in a slight and pretentious way, by the artsiness.

Archive 2008-04-01 Becca 2008