| 单词 | twee |
| 例句 | She liked the way he said locate, all twee, like a schoolmaster. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Jenga stacks, dinky stainless buckets, twee mini-frying baskets, fake newspaper cones, these all prompt one question: where are the rest of my chips? How to eat: chips 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z In a rather twee booklet essay, Isserlis addresses his decision to repeat a section of the last movement of the Scarlatti by admitting that there is no evidence either to support or to counter it. CD reviews: Cellist Isserlis shows guts in Bach 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In recent seasons, however, it has been repeatedly spoiled by intrusive furniture and twee nondance photographs, as if in an effort to turn its marvelous grandeur into something cozy. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-16T22:42:20Z There’s much that appears self-serious, even as it relishes the twee and bathetic. A Botanist’s Desire Turns Toxic in This Novel of Romantic Obsession 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Whimsical and occasionally twee, some are not going to be everyone’s cup of eggnog. Jeanette Winterson’s 12 Christmas stories are a magical holiday treat 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z He was a trained hairdresser who got into drunken street fights, an East Coaster whose work seemed steeped in California car culture, a large-scale sculptor who periodically turned out twee tabletop constructions. Art Review: ?John Chamberlain: Choices? at Guggenheim Museum 2012-02-23T23:23:12Z But dwarsliggers embody twee in another respect: as displays of individualism, idiosyncrasy, quirkiness. Are Tiny Books a Sign of the Twee-ification of Literary Culture? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Residents worry that such businesses will soon disappear, replaced by twee boutiques of artisanal socks, rain-scented candles and so many succulents. How San Francisco broke America’s heart 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The rest of the mix spans African highlife music, American twee pop and rock & roll, Atlanta hip-hop and twisted electronic music of various origins, among other styles. Download this: "Go Easy With Me," Cairo mixtape #03 2011-05-31T16:22:06Z Almost next door, Little Otsu carried printed curiosities: books, postcards, notepads — all illustrated with a careful, if twee, touch. The Frugal Traveler in San Francisco With His Year-Old Daughter 2010-03-13T03:49:00Z Don't be fooled by the alarm bells this surprise comeback's twee title sets off: her timbre may be more gossamer-thin than ever, but Tube Stops and Lonely Hearts is propelled by pure muscle. Essential summer jams for 2013 2013-05-02T16:18:11Z While rainbow jewelry is often dismissed as twee, these sparklers are all grown up. How to Be a Poolside Pinup 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z This is her first film since then and it is an outrageously twee, spiritual and supercilious drama, set in Australia, about family and grief. The Tree ? review 2011-08-04T21:15:01Z Dolefully lyrical, bar a bouncier middle section, it proved as twee as the orchestration implied. Nelsons Turns Tanglewood Into Bayreuth-in-the-Berkshires 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z But he hasn't the flippant, twee tics of some lesser depictions of Wimsey. Taproot's 'Gaudy Night' an open-and-shut case of fun for mystery fans 2012-10-02T19:53:04Z He is not as clean but has a twee, giggly delivery that I thought might appeal. A 7-Year-Old Walks Into a Stand-Up Club ... 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z To be fair, it's still quite watchable and it's a cut above Midsomer Murders, but it is still unbelievably twee and cosy. TV review: Hitler's Children; Lewis 2012-05-23T21:00:02Z “High Maintenance” has been smart to stay under 20 minutes, though even there the newer, more serious episodes have tended toward the twee and sentimental. Review: ‘Hunting Season’ on Vimeo Starts Second Season 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z A little too twee and sentimental for comfort. Hidden treasures: Sir John Betjeman's Banana Blush 2013-02-15T10:10:12Z Directed by Heather Lanza, it reaches for lyricism but often seems twee instead. Review: Taking In the New York International Fringe Festival, From Ferry to Theater 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Because the “Gilmore Girls” communication style was based around snappy, brainy dialogue, it would be far too easy for the show to rely on cultural references or twee gestures at the expense of depth. The genius of “Gilmore Girls”: When your writing is this good, you can always go home again — even to Stars Hollow 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Watching the pilot again, though, it became harder to ignore the soap opera underpinnings and the twee sentimentality. Television Review: ?Grimm? on NBC and ?Once Upon a Time? on ABC - Review 2011-10-22T00:00:17Z This certainly applies to Anderson, the perceived high priest of hipsterism and twee. How the Wes Anderson aesthetic took over the world 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Then there's a gently sturdy ballad from Alasdair Roberts, a quietly compelling song from Nancy Wallace, and several bands that veer between the pleasantly spooky and twee. Various Artists – Weirdlore: Notes from the Folk Underground – review 2012-06-07T21:53:01Z Arnett’s quirky setup—a sibling love triangle, dead animals—might have heralded a twee, put-a-bird-on-it story, but the writing is subtle and meditative, with the tactile weight of dense fur. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Step 6 is accompanied by a text box with a message from Bob, in an aggressively twee typeface: “You can move mountains, rivers, trees. You can determine what your world is like.” Review | What is the strange allure of Bob Ross? I painted my way to an answer, sort of. 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Nothing here feels cute, quaint or kitsch, though whimsy can fall that way, into a slough of soggy sentimentality sometimes laced with an emetic of twee. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But I refuse to believe it's just me who hears the words "poetic drama" and first imagines something slowly woven from pastel shades of twee. Poetry in Motion: why poetic drama has something new to say 2011-03-02T13:10:18Z It seems so very parochial and twee, more Lark Rise to Candleford. TV review: The Boy Who Can't Forget; The Paradise 2012-09-25T21:10:01Z If all this sounds a bit twee and blurry, that’s deliberate. Review: Getting Intimate at ‘Dr. Ride’s American Beach House’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z As the title suggests, At The Indie Disco is a terribly twee, knowing ode to evenings of emotional constipation and snakebite and black. Singles out this week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z The only surviving vestige of Disney’s prototypical community is the Disney-owned town of Celebration, Florida, a surreally twee place whose orderliness has drawn comparisons to Ira Levin’s novel The Stepford Wives. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Nolan, who I usually find twee and a teensy bit fake, was sweet with them, and Rachel Morris, his resident expert, offered careful advice. Rewind radio: The Nation's Favourite Christmas Carol; Stephen Nolan; Today – review 2012-12-30T00:06:03Z Los Angeles Times’s Justin Chang criticised it as being “terminally self-satisfied” while The AV Club’s AA Dowd called it “the most twee Holocaust movie ever”. Hitler comedy Jojo Rabbit primed for Oscars after winning top Toronto award 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Though swathed in eldritch atmospherics, Zola Jesus's songs pack a brutal, emotional punch, rendering the genteel witchery-woo of Florence + The Machine and Bat For Lashes a tad twee by comparison. Will Zola Jesus herald the second coming of goth? 2010-08-20T23:08:00Z The Guardian called it "soggy" and "twee," describing it as a very expensive "screensaver." James Cameron threatens to tell only "Avatar" stories from now on, despite the harm done 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Tone indicators are most popular within some Twitter and Tumblr communities of young people with overlapping interests in identity representation, anime and K-pop fandom, twee aesthetics, and sensitivity toward mental health and gender issues. Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help? 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z That version reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, opening the pipestream of twee to come. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z How about: obvious, exuberant, unfashionable, twee, un-self-conscious, irritating, even a little desperate? The 50 dorkiest songs you secretly love 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, director Deena Selenow fails to smooth over the plot irregularities in a ponderously paced staging that unfailingly emphasizes the twee. A fractured family tries to piece itself together in 'Kentucky' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The most colorful thing about the place is its twee street names, chosen from literature: Rivendell Lane, Marble Faun Lane, Rocksparkle Row. Here’s a suburban experiment cities can learn from 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z The first album I see as developmental, a bit twee. Bubblegum pop: all the young dudes 2010-12-02T22:00:00Z Remember when Robert Billington became the first twee heartthrob in the tent? Bake Off at 10: the greatest moments from the nine series so far 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z No, but as I continued filing away photos of manicured raised garden beds and twee baskets filled with pea shoots, reality quickly became less important than whimsy. My virtual life as a jam maker in "Stardew Valley," where small-batch food takes down Big Business 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z That was always a bit twee, but today it’s also troublesome. ‘Intelligent Life’ Review: Cecily Strong’s ‘Awerobics’ Workout 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Low on twee, high on excellent ideas and simple instructions. Why we are watching: Sarah Marks and Sara Duchars 2012-08-18T23:29:01Z D'Erasmo displays a sly affinity for the sometimes twee magic of the contemporary music scene. 'Wonderland' vividly captures a rocker's comeback struggle 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z I can also imagine a viewer who sees the quirky, thespian’s-eye treatment of the subject as twee and art for art’s sake. Review: In ‘Station Eleven,’ the World Ends, Beautifully 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Implausible as it may seem, holiday accommodation in rural England isn't limited to twee little cottages, somber stately homes and drafty old castles with terrible plumbing. English Country Goes Rock-'N'-Roll 2011-03-10T12:15:00Z Then there is the twee idea of a traveling troupe of actors and orchestral musicians that roams the land. Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven,’ a Flu Apocalypse 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z A cross between an early synth and a banjo, it produces a limited range of twee electronic sounds, and it's the weapon of choice for low-key but extremely talented young comic Gareth Richards. This week's new live comedy 2011-04-01T23:06:01Z I'm eating dinner outside a twee neighbourhood restaurant – brusque waiter and French accordion jazz coming as standard issue – with Kevin Parker. Tame Impala: a trip inside the head of main man Kevin Parker 2012-10-05T23:03:00Z But, as with the glockenspiel and recorder, there is a bit of a cringey, twee faux-naivety now attached to the uke. Hey, what's that sound: Ukulele 2010-08-17T14:19:00Z But its twee tendencies are redeemed by great virtues: wit, confidence, formal invention and, most of all, a willingness to root its allusions in character and story, and bring everything back to friendship and feeling. "My Community Pulp Fictional Dinner with Andre" 2011-03-25T16:04:00Z But that's the nature of the Company Theatre's approach: too twee, or not too twee? Hamlet the Clown?Prince ? review 2011-03-09T19:45:00Z In the early 80s, as a child of tender years, I was deeply attached to this revoltingly upbeat commemorative volume, twee guardian fairies notwithstanding. Royal baby books: regal or ridiculous? 2013-07-19T09:36:00Z And also fairly embarrassing to partisans on both sides and ruinous to the movie’s sensuous, twee magic. ‘I Origins,’ an Emo-Science Thriller From Mike Cahill 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The way the chef sees it, “One person’s twee is another person’s thoughtful detail.” Review | A chef who reveres the region brings his act to D.C. 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z It includes a song by fellow Cairo act M. Women, with the rest of the mix spanning African highlife music, American twee pop and rock, Atlanta hip-hop and twisted electronic music of various origins. Jo Nesb? thrillers, 'Go Easy With Me' and desk voyeurism are Seattle Times favorites 2011-06-01T22:09:02Z It’s the kind of coffee you might expect to pay four times as much for at a twee shop in a trendier part of town. The Los Angeles fast food revolution 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Michaelson’s twee fifth studio album, “Human Again,” was released last year, and her popular “Holiday Hop” series enters its seventh annual installment this year. Pop & Rock Music Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:54:30Z Twin Sister The best twee music is girded with steel. Playlist: New Music From Mark McGuire and Twin Sister 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z Their backdrops are hilarious: Basically all of the corporate drama in the book happens around fire pits, at themed bars or twee espresso spots, in hot tubs and at Lake Tahoe. Scrolling Through the Rise, and Takeover, of Instagram 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Joyce’s novel, a sentimental nominee for this year’s Man Booker Prize, has a premise that is simple and twee. Books of The Times: ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,’ by Rachel Joyce 2012-07-29T21:26:22Z From track one, "Outside," the second album by Seattle twee pop trio Seapony, "Falling," is off to a good start. Seapony's new album 'Falling' builds on first success 2012-09-10T20:41:04Z It’s a quintessentially Irish bar, but not in a twee sense. Q&A: Dublin, Beyond the Guinness Storehouse 2014-01-29T20:03:24Z Though it’s easy to mock this kind of thing as the twee preoccupation of the privileged classes, it’s much deeper than that. Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig? 2013-04-28T01:00:00Z Green is a standard-bearer for twee, and thus a logical author to lead the American dwarsligger insurgency. Are Tiny Books a Sign of the Twee-ification of Literary Culture? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Predictably, given its twee London setting and cute British cast, Americans are cosying up to it, too; Last Christmas has grossed $22m at the US box office. Last Christmas may be the worst film of the year – so why is it box-office gold? 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Then there's a pleasantly languid early Paul McCartney song, Junk, and a partly spoken treatment of AA Milne's Alexander Beetle that verges dangerously on twee. Jackie Oates: Lullabies – review 2013-03-21T22:00:03Z It was interesting to think that desire was coming from awkward places and not necessarily from the twee, obvious things that we think are feminine, but aren't. The Rolling Stones and all tonight's bands – live! 2013-06-30T00:31:00Z She loathes the “twee” approach to sustainable agriculture and local food taken by many well-known chefs and farmers. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z There are twee ornamental lawns, a pier, candy-striped lighthouse and several pretty churches. Namibia's Skeleton Coast 2010-04-24T23:15:00Z In its twee way, “Rudolph” promised a future that would be kinder to nonconformists. In Praise of Rudolph 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The terrestrial, safe, twee, scallops'n'cauliflower puree world of , the Hairy Bikers and Great British Bake Off. MasterChef? Delia Smith should try watching Man v Food 2013-05-15T10:53:15Z The serious subject matter is overshadowed by over-the-top acting and a bizarre twee song featuring the lyrics: “That’s how you got addicted to heroin”: The strangest Super Bowl spot we’ve ever seen 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z This approach takes getting used to and your mileage may vary; much depends on your tolerance for archness, twee and lightly deployed Anderson-ish tics. ‘Emma’ Review: Back on the Manor, but Still Clueless 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Mates of State hit a lot of twee touchstones that reached peak popularity around the last time Sufjan Stevens wrote an album about a state. Your week in Seattle music: Wale, RL Grime and more 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z This endearing, if somewhat twee, movie gently reminds you of its truth. | 'The Hedgehog': Behind the Prickliness Lies a Generous Heart 2011-08-18T23:17:46Z One of their tracks, Phone, is super-exuberant and almost creepily twee. New band of the day ? No 813: Magic Kids 2010-06-22T15:05:00Z There’s money to be made in twee hieroglyphics. An Emoji Movie Is In the Works 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z By focusing almost exclusively on making clothes instead of tea cosies, The Great British Sewing Bee does what QVC and Kirstie never could: it has taken the twee out of craft on the telly. The Great British Sewing Bee is a crafty move 2013-04-02T14:40:43Z Mr. Boutté deftly doubles as a hothead and a twee intellectual, while Mr. Rozzell matches the poise of Rupert Crosse in the original. Theater Review: ?Shadows? at the Collapsable Hole - Review 2011-11-04T22:40:49Z On Tuesday, there was a lot of the arch diction and twee preciosity, long the stereotype in Britten performance. Music Review: Britten in Juilliard’s Spotlight at Alice Tully Hall 2013-12-04T22:33:18Z The characters are broader than you would expect, and the tone is slightly too twee. Forget Friends! The 25 greatest overlooked sitcoms – from Lovesick to Younger 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z An improbable assortment of critics — mindfulness gurus, twee indie rockers, even, seemingly, Pope Francis — have started to implore these armchair videographers to drop their phones and actually start living again. A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z For example, “ ‘twee’ is a useful term, because there really is no direct American equivalent,” Mr. Sheidlower said. Noted: Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms 2012-10-10T20:37:21Z The twee "Boy Lilikoi" undoes the great good done by "Animal Arithmetic"; there are obvious denouements, and a great deal of soaring. Go by J?nsi | CD review 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Only one succeeds, and it’s the one that doesn’t indulge a twee high concept to try to gin up interest in its characters. Fall TV’s rom-com boom: Why it’s so hard to translate this genre to the small screen 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z And the guy is “instantly annoying: a twee, diminutive hobbit of a fellow whose level of self-amusement seemed almost delusional.” Books of The Times: Walter Kirn’s Memoir About Befriending a Fraud 2014-03-17T21:29:53Z With its bathetic title and prim Yorkshire setting, Last Tango in Halifax looked like it might be a rather twee affair. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z As a pitch, and even in its earliest episodes, it felt a tad too twee — a half-hour sitcom about the notion of a karmic afterlife. Review | What did ‘The Good Place’ teach us? That even eternal bliss needs a happy ending. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It's charming and dire, elaborately imagined, and its whimsy never skews twee. Leigh Bardugo's top 10 childhood reads 2013-06-28T09:00:00Z Not like: "Why can't there be more movies that are indie and twee, with themes resembling that of 2004's hipster classic?" Zach Braff's beard is "The High Cost of Living" 2011-04-22T17:20:00Z “I found him instantly annoying,” Kirn writes, “a twee, diminutive hobbit of a fellow whose level of self-amusement seemed almost delusional.” Walter Kirn’s ‘Blood Will Out’: a true tale of glitter and gullibility 2014-04-03T20:44:52Z “The Scientists” will strike some readers as fairly twee. Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z The set for Act I gives us an economical view of the farmer James’s manor house, but the versions of Scottish attire are both garish and twee. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z He lands a job in an appropriately crunchy upscale grocery store called Anavrin — Nirvana, only spelled backward — with a twee book section curated for image instead of substance . New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z And now we are heading into seasonal territory of twee and saccharine jollity, the nastiness of Saki is a welcome refreshment. Season's readings: Three stories by Saki 2010-12-23T13:04:07Z Now the cinematic maestro of the twee is influencing the digital realm with an indie playback video game. What to Do This Weekend 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z As it is, the opening scene, in which the quartet of actors deliberately speak over one another, to us — suggesting a competition over who gets to speak for him — is a bit twee. Review | John Quincy Adams is the anti-Trump in the new play ‘JQA’ 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z In her videos, she appears winkingly gracious to her “fans” for listening to “Friday,” then performs a twee ukulele version. Now You Can Just Pay Celebrities to Say Stuff 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z I need to ask: how twee is it all? Why we are watching: Sarah Marks and Sara Duchars 2012-08-18T23:29:01Z This stuff verges on the twee, but mostly works. Books of The Times: Questlove Publishes His Memoir, ‘Mo’ Meta Blues’ 2013-06-25T22:04:39Z They seemed harmless enough to me but are an easy target for Londoners who disdain their twee rusticity. | Britain's First Two-Star Pub 2011-10-19T16:28:59Z The work is certainly poetic but not precious or twee. My Five Things: Cartoonist and Illustrator Seth 2011-10-26T17:54:28Z Someone at Cuyana had the twee notion of basing the catalogue on Magritte’s famous painting of a pipe underlined by the sentence “This is not a pipe” in French. The art of holiday catalogues: Selling the $300 ax you never knew you wanted 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z When I first saw the musical “Once” at the New York Theater Workshop last December, it registered as a little too twee, too conventionally sentimental, for the East Village. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z Julia Raeside Second instalment of geographer Nicholas Crane's three-part survey of those conurbations too small to possess the clout and allure of cities, and too big to be endowed with the twee romance of villages. TV highlights 28/05/2013 2013-05-28T06:00:02Z Owners of various businesses, from blow-dry bars to twee shops filled with sundries. How Washington, of all places, became a city of day drinkers and Casual Tuesdays 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z It has led to a fetishisation of the twee and the precious, and it is why there is little profit in waiting for the appearance of the Indian Pasolini or Burroughs or Basquiat. Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art? 2012-08-10T21:30:01Z On paper, Hearts Beat Loud might tick off a few too many twee Sundance-friendly boxes, but there’s something disarmingly likable about what actually lies underneath. No cape required: your guide to the best alternative films this summer 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z By Mr. McIntyre’s standards, this narrative is bordering on the twee. In Philadelphia, Ballet Neighbors Divided by Style 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z It's remarkable how relatively difficult it is to escape the twee and expensively meticulous these days. The Odeon’s Not-So-Bright Lights Still Beckon 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z True to its title, it is dainty and quaint, as twee as can be. Tony winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is good but not a killer 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z I found Victoria Chaplin's Le Cirque Invisible far too twee at the Southbank last year, but clearly many didn't because it's back. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-08-02T12:42:00Z Supportive of the concept but it all sounds twee and self absorbed. For ‘Transparent,’ Accusations Against Jeffrey Tambor Burst an Idealistic Bubble 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z “A lot of television that deals with that golden age of crime can get a bit chocolate boxy and twee,” Cattaneo said. ‘It’s a Labyrinth’: A Meta Detective Story Comes to the Screen 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Following the end of her engagement, Grande dropped “Thank U, Next,” a twee, peppy single that espoused gratitude and self-possession. Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next,” Reviewed 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “Fiddle-leaf fig,” offers an employee of Little Leaf, a twee plant and paper shop that opened in the winter just off 14th Street NW in Washington. Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Her weird compulsion to salute herself in mirrors like some sort of impossibly twee knitted soldier. Olympus Has Fallen – but no one could fall for Gerard Butler in this 2013-01-31T13:10:32Z He painted faces on wooden dolls and created twee costumes for the figures sold in the state-run stores. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Some of the getting-to-know-you stuff in “Traces” is a little twee for my tastes, too self-consciously charming. | 'Traces': Acrobats Meet Skateboards and Basketballs (Watch Out!) 2011-08-10T02:01:08Z I gripe about listening to twee voices singing neutered versions of the songs I really want to hear, but it beats listening to most children’s music. Kidz Bop is the go-to of tot music. But do we really need to replace ‘tattoo’ with ‘hairdo’? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z “Precious,” “light,” and “twee” all describe conventionally feminine qualities, and all have been tossed July’s way as insults. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z Oddly, the band used to be part of the new folk scene that produced the twee strumming of Noah and the Whale and Laura Marling. 2010-02-04T12:08:00Z It comes across as mercilessly twee, which is a pity as it portrays Jones as exactly what she isn't – a safe-for-kiddies, sanitised, patronising writer. The curse of swearing in children's books 2010-09-08T13:07:00Z Confected villages of twee woodsy charm where the housing prices have gone nuts thanks to the great northward creep of tech money. T Magazine: Stranger Than Paradise 2013-05-10T21:59:01Z I’m up here block-printing, and I am up in this twee Connecticut house, tacking things up on the wall, anyway. Maharajahs Ruling in the Connecticut Wilds 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z “If I should fall so deep / May it be with you,” she sings on “With You,” gently seesawing along with a twee acoustic guitar line and a modest string section. Valerie June’s Music Is a Reminder That Life Goes On 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Unlike the twee genre paintings of the era, engravings in illustrated newspapers depicted starving Irishwomen as abject Madonnas, their pathos augmented by the medium’s “coarse network of cross-hatchings … its lack of nuance or subtlety.” When Misery Becomes a Subject for Art 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z This is the arch-sounding premise of Kevin Wilson’s novel “The Family Fang,” which in less adroit hands might have been a string of twee, deadpan moments and not much more. Books of The Times: Mom and Dad and the Two Kids They Damage 2011-08-03T22:00:29Z The poets represented range from Shakespeare and Marlowe to Yeats and Masefield, and if some of the songs are routine and sometimes rather twee examples of early 20th-century English word-setting, others are far more distinctive. Moeran: Complete Solo Songs 2010-05-27T21:35:00Z Alternately insulting and twee, “Senses” dulls the reader. Alice Waters got us to eat healthy. What more can she teach us in her new book? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “PUT a bird on it!” was a catchphrase on “Portlandia,” the IFC satire about the pervasive culture of all things twee. Bo?te: The Wren, a Gastropub in the East Village 2012-02-08T21:25:43Z In “The Pessimists,” she throws together three suburban couples, whose children attend a twee private school, and documents their antics over the course of a year. Review | In ‘The Pessimists,’ privilege collides with desperation 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z It wasn’t simply the excruciatingly twee musical choices, or the well-worn trajectory of a plot as contrived as its woolly-hatted heroine. ‘Adult Life Skills’ Review: In a Shed, and Out of Time 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z There are unison male/female vocals and allusions to nature and fairytales in the lyrics about forests of talking trees, although before things get too twee there are references to "killing machines". New band of the day – No 1,278: Of Monsters and Men 2012-05-29T16:42:57Z More particularly, when I first saw the Tony-winning Off Broadway musical "Once," it struck me as too twee, though I loved its music and its dance. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions, Part 2 2012-12-06T16:13:06Z The heart of the series is his portrait of himself as a lonely, lovelorn, twee fool. ‘Drunk History’ and ‘Nathan for You’ Begin Season 2 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z His final paragraphs urge readers to “flee the twee” and follow him south, toward the “Guyanese grills and Dominican bodegas” where “life is still lived unposed and uncurated and close to the bone.” A New History Celebrates Brooklyn’s Heights, and Depths 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Despite the dangers of sentimentality, Mugridge steers away from the treacherous rocks called twee, and is a distinctive but unassuming stage presence. The Watery Journey of Nereus Pike – review 2013-03-20T18:33:20Z Its album is a full-spectrum auditory experience, the sound of renegade toys weeping after a bender — curious, saccharine, unsteady and twee, but not weak. The New Indie Pop: Off-Kilter, Handmade, Whimsical and Emotional 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Unlike the twee pastiche of “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” this all works, and works perfectly. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z In short, he makes fascism look a little twee. Everything You Need to Know About the Controversies Surrounding This Year's Oscar Movies 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z They are an exceedingly twee group, the kind who don dopey insect-antenna headpieces to amuse themselves. Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The song appears on Martha’s excellent new album, “Blisters in the Pit of My Heart,” full of politically and literarily inclined twee pop and DIY punk. The Playlist: Katy Perry’s Limp Olympics Anthem and Justice’s Grooving Return 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The cover is horrible: twee, crowded and with Kaye's name printed too small. So Much to Tell by Valerie Grove 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z As you might imagine, at its worst it tends towards the unbearably twee. The Secret Sisters: The Secret Sisters ? review 2011-02-17T15:29:04Z I'd usually cringe at the thought of using something as twee as rose petals, but they're actually lovely to eat as well as to look at. Ruby Tandoh: rising star 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z This woman is hiding behind a personal pizza like an adorably twee, plaid-wearing bunny! Pizza Hut desperately wants you to believe their hipster Instagram is real life 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Its predecessor “Only Murders in the Building” pulls this off by essentially adapting the trusty cozy-murder format within a twee, New Yorker-cartoon version of reality. ‘Based on a True Story’ Review: Only Murders on the TV 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z For some it will be cutely melodramatic, for others it will be gratingly kooky and twee. New band of the day – Lowell (No 1,382) 2012-10-29T17:08:21Z But there's also an undertow, the most compelling element in an art-versus-commerce drama that consists of one beautifully aching performance surrounded by a whole lotta twee. 'Swim Little Fish Swim' drowns in tired take on 'artistes' 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Bill Wyman’s song “In Another Land” is a pointed sendup of twee psychedelia, as its sweet harpsichord-backed verse gets a rude awakening in the chorus, and “On With the Show” bristles with sarcasm. Blasts From the Past From the Rolling Stones, D’Angelo, Neil Young and Can 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z This twee detail was my cue to admire the tiny blue egg on the table, and I did. California’s Luxury Dining Circuit: Delicious and Dull 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z “To the extent that people are thinking ‘fiancé’ is a little twee, the new way of saying may not involve a word at all,” Dr. McWhorter said. Why the Word ‘Fiancé’ Is Falling Out of Fashion 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The first few of these storytelling high jinks seem forced and somewhat twee. ‘Arcadia’ by Iain Pears: A plot built for an app. In fact there is one. 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z What’s more, this production makes a compelling case for “Cripple,” which once felt far too twee to me, as one of Mr. McDonagh’s most substantive plays. Theater Review: Daniel Radcliffe Stars in Revival of ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ 2014-04-21T02:00:12Z Homes, including Katie’s twee shack, are fetishized into nearly the same importance as the gorgeous actors. Safe Haven: Something Borrowed, Something ‘Boo’ 2013-02-14T13:00:55Z This hard edge of realism keeps the novel from feeling overly writerly or twee. ‘Weathering’ review: A haunting debut set in the British countryside 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z By contrast, the Royal’s Snow scene, with Clara and the Nutcracker — played by adults — dancing alongside the Snowflakes, is insufferably twee. Critic’s Notebook: Inspired by Tchaikovsky in New York and London 2013-12-18T22:50:55Z London Following in the longer-than-you'd-actually-think-it-would-be line of friendly twee nights playing sweet sounds to cuddle to, So Tough! Clubs picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z One day you’re puzzling over how an exploding rose ended up on multiple dust jackets, and the next you’re confronted by an onslaught of twee illustrations. Eight trends in book cover art, from busy botanicals to women walking away 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Cults are the latest exponents of 60s girl-group-adoring twee pop, but they may just be the best, even better than Summer Camp, who we raved about in January. New band of the day ? No 780: Cults 2010-05-06T15:00:00Z Stewart’s “Kopp Sisters” series is sometimes guilty of being a bit twee. ‘Lady Cop Makes Trouble’: A feisty heroine inspired by a real detective 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z I mean, it's one of those condiments that honestly seems like it just emerges on supermarket shelves and hot dog stands, fully-packaged in twee little jars and yellow squirt bottles. Faith of a mustard seed: My almost spiritual journey towards making the perfect homemade mustard 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Yes, they’re impossibly twee, with their air of belonging to a private club for two and their little pet obsessions. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z The twee factor that was always lurking in the movie advances front and center. ‘Shakespeare in Love: The Play,’ in London 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z The Acme Corporation’s entry into the category takes the opposite tack, as you might discern from its twee title: “The Institute for Counterfeit Memory.” When the Audience Is Stuck at Home, the Play Is in the Mail 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s an elaborate, slightly twee conceit, but now there’s another place to eat roasted oysters, and many of the other throwback preparations are also surprisingly delicious. Amelia Lester: Elaborate Throwback Cuisine at the Runner, in Clinton Hill 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z The band have so far run to two albums of sideways glances at life, an approach that can sometimes lead them towards the quirky, domestic and twee, but often rejuvenates familiar constituent parts. This week's new live music 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z Nearly every review of Slow Club's first album, Yeah, So, referred to the Sheffield duo as twee. New music: Slow Club ? The Dog 2012-02-09T14:38:00Z There's always a danger when you're playing a lot of love stories that it can become twee or sickly. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z “A Series of Unfortunate Events” was marked by Handler’s winkingly ornate prose and neo-gothic whimsy; “All the Dirty Parts” is spare, stripped down and devoid of anything twee. Daniel Handler's new novel 'All the Dirty Parts' is raunchy, original and real 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z One minor thing that the hit thriller does is to shatter any twee notions of the Danish capital. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z But what we got was something tiresome and insufferably self-regarding, all too obviously a twee personal "project" which probably means a great deal to her family and friends. Cannes 2013: A Castle in Italy (Un Chateau en Italie) – first look review 2013-05-21T16:39:04Z An Amazon ad, “Delivering Rainbows,” spins delivering packages during the pandemic into a twee, heartwarming pursuit. The Pandemic Ad Salutes You 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z But in keeping with the New Saloon aesthetic — I’d boil it down to twee with brains — more effort goes into feeding the stunt than nurturing the story. Obsession, Mourning and Migration at Under the Radar 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Some of them were twee, but they raked in millions. | Laura Ashley 2010-10-22T15:39:00Z Photograph: Talkback Thames Kitting ferrets out as little people, as at the coming wedding in the chapel of Beamish's pit village, may seem twee or even offensive but that too has a long history. Inseparable ferrets to marry at Christmas 2012-11-12T07:00:00Z You get Lesley Gore, who doesn't come off as twee as the Pacemakers, but who gets a proper stomping by the Supremes. The best concert film you've never seen 2010-04-11T18:01:00Z You know what you’re in for when a twee acoustic indie rock song underscores the first few scenes. This is Us: manipulative drama is in desperate pursuit of your tears 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, her conservative-minded mom, for whom twee and starchy beauty pageants are the perfect activities for a young lady of Bliss's age, knows nothing of her daughter's new-found career. You review: Whip It 2010-04-12T14:03:00Z The serrate art-punk band Wire was at its nervy best, and Belle & Sebastian sounded completely at peace with its ageless twee pastorals. Music Review: Dancing Under the Sky 2013-07-22T22:01:52Z But these days it “feels to me sort of twee. … I need more comedy, more urgency, more white space.” Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Tweedar is a way to detect the “twee” content in things, my own and other people’s — when things are so self-consciously arty that they’re unbearable. Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The first lady of UK folk spoke to Rebecca Nicholson about the perils of finding fame so young and why she isn't as twee as people think. Laura Marling 2010-04-02T10:42:00Z And then she included a poem, which, depending on your perspective, will be either painfully twee or gently comforting: Yoga With Adriene: how the YouTube star won lockdown 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The Good Place, with its pastel hues and twee, euphemistic cursing was his most whimsically escapist yet. Forking hell! Is The Good Place the ultimate TV show for our times? 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The counterpoint between the animal and human worlds, so brilliantly caught in the famous David Pountney production at ENO in the 1980s, is regularly undermined here, replaced by something far too twee and sentimental. The Cunning Little Vixen | Opera review 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z I don’t know what Netflix’s algorithm knows about me, but it’s mostly offering whatever twee indie made its way to New Releases. June Diane Raphael: 'So many women are kicking ass as they get older' 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z But perhaps there is something irredeemably twee in the character of Eliza Doolittle herself, a posh person's fantasy of the working class. Emma Thompson doesn't go lightly on Audrey Hepburn 2010-08-10T09:21:00Z The less charitable describe him as “twee,” meaning quaintly sentimental. The voice of Winnie the Pooh is something of a teddy bear himself (with claws) 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z The poems are often described as whimsical, but if they’re not your cup of twee they can grate. ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z And Cirque was built on arty, sometimes twee clowning that can’t fill up a large space like Radio City. Arts & Leisure: How Do You Make a Whole Show Fly? 2011-06-08T12:00:00Z Some people find that irritating or affected or twee, I guess, and certainly when his work fails to connect it can deliver that effect. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z This is a man who seems to have stepped straight out of the Juno soundtrack in search of something more twee. Songs against monogamy and melancholy 2010-04-07T14:48:00Z Maybe regulators thought the movie was too twee? For ‘Christopher Robin,’ Outselling Tom Cruise Is an Impossible Mission 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Like the twee diversions of knitting, table tennis and the Women's Institute, bingo – particularly the rebellious kind - is currently experiencing something of a revival. Clubs picks of the week 2010-03-20T00:08:00Z Chopping parsley and whisking cream as the sun fills up her kitchen, Adler doesn’t appreciate being pigeonholed as “twee.” Tamar Adler and the rise of the quiet cook 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z At times, the prose can feel fusty and twee, especially in creaky turns of phrase: the way a slug chortles “Ho-ho-ho!” over and over or a character is labeled “a most odd-looking little man.” Dark Fairy Tales From a Now-Vanished Agrarian Japan 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It so happens that Daybreak is sponsored by Clipper Tea, a link established during commercial breaks through a little skit in which the elements of a tea party have a twee conversation: "Hello, spoon." Daybreak, 10 O'Clock Live and TV's slow starters 2011-04-12T20:29:00Z Some may find their music to be twee, but the group resists the notion that they are a novelty act. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z But in the airier west galleries, a spread-out installation of twee paintings and sculptures disperses the ghosts. Art in Review: ?THE HOUSE WITHOUT THE DOOR? 2011-07-28T19:52:58Z That sense of ambition and direction extended to the Crutchfields’ music, which grew to include elements of twee indie rock, traditional emo and also pop. Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z The vignettes of this imaginary friendship get by on a puckish, slightly twee astringency, making for a thin but savory broth. Books of The Times: ‘A Bintel Brief’ Is Liana Finck’s Graphic Book of Letters 2014-04-22T22:00:27Z Creepy, twee Chaplin, with that creepy, twee walk, every joke so painfully contrived even a 10-year-old could see every punchline waddling over the horizon? Bravo Charlie 2010-07-30T11:15:00Z There’s a large gap between the offbeat and the twee. Inconsistent tone, uneven direction plague 'Off the King's Road' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The answer to that question is Young & Old, an album that insists that this band is more than just cute sea shanties; that said, that delightfully twee pop is just too difficult to bury. For the band Tennis, Being Cute Isn?t Just a Gimmick 2012-02-15T13:00:21Z The curious effect of these micromanaged images is to make even the most violent events seem twee. ‘Stanleyville’ Review: The Most Senseless Game 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Which is true: a garishly twee oil painting of cute birds hangs behind him. Bradley Cooper: boy to man 2011-03-22T21:30:00Z Some of it is so twee and old-fashioned it feels like it's the 1950s rather than the 1970s. Julien Temple on The Clash and punk 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Perched atop the twice-rechristened McCarren Hotel and Pool, Sheltering Sky is a departure from the area’s crusty dives and twee mixology dens. Sheltering Sky in Williamsburg 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z It will shock no one that one destination is Portland, and theatergoers’ enjoyment of this show will likely correlate with their tolerance for all things twee. In ‘Everybody Knows,’ a dance troupe struggles with a long-distance relationship Benjamin is like an overly chatty but skilled magician; she earns herself a few twee flourishes by telling a modern and energetic story about a marriage on the skids. Rage Sets a Couple on a Collision Course. Who Will Absorb the Impact? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The drawings of figs and protein bars and David Bowie record covers interspersed throughout the book give the impression of twee jetsam. In ‘I Might Regret This,’ Abbi Jacobson Hits the Road. Insomnia, Heartbreak, Hilarity and Self-Discovery Ensue. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z However, the judges have to first snip off the twee shoulder bows before they are happy with his lingerie dress. 2010-02-12T15:13:00Z Some might say it's on the twee side but it more than fulfills the brief: Village green? Five Reasons to Visit the North York Moors 2010-06-17T09:25:00Z The understated narrative, presented in a way that borders on twee, but never trite, contains themes of surprising weight and consequence. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Proust’s epic now feels to me sort of twee and also not discontinuous enough. Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z I just couldn't imagine why anybody would want to read such a twee, simpering narrative, overwritten and unimaginative. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 22: The Eyes of the Dragon 2013-06-20T15:00:35Z Of the play, reviewer F. Kathleen Foley says the story never condescends to its subjects — even as they remain quirky — but, unfortunately, the directing puts too much emphasis on the twee. Essential Arts & Culture: The Bard and Harry Potter, art after Fidel, John M. Miller's passing 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z As if to underscore the similarities, the movie even opens with a handcrafted, pleasantly fastidious title sequence with credits inscribed on tees and golf balls that fairly exudes twee Andersonia. ‘The Country Club’ Review: Who’s Your Caddy? 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z In the Copland, you would never have recognized the second movement’s almost twee character in Dudamel’s insistent, spirited treatment of its delicately interlocking motivic cells. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Comes to Town, Megawatt Appeal on Display 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Rakel’s intellectual prowess and twee sensibilities are carefully demonstrated and amplified throughout the book’s many sections. Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z As the album progresses, the mood shifts from maudlin to twee, with a song about "a little room", and another called My Love Will Clap Its Hands for You. The Candle Thieves: Sunshine and Other Misfortunes | CD review 2010-04-01T22:15:00Z But in Portland, a city where the lines often blur between it and “Portlandia,” its comically twee IFC TV counterpart, the seriousness of this craft endeavor seems fitting. Heads Up: Bringing the Wine to Portland, Ore. 2013-08-29T19:58:37Z She wasn’t sitting around lecturing people about what it was like to be her age or making twee lists wondering why she was squinting so much. Everything the Internet taught me about being 39 is a lie 2014-01-11T22:00:00Z The series can tend toward the twee, and the characters can exasperate. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Ben Brantley of the New York Times offered a dissenting review, writing that the "twee factor that was always lurking in the movie advances front and center" in the new production. 'Shakespeare in Love' opens in London to mostly raves 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Just the sense — and it sounds twee, but it’s not — of everybody’s positivity, everybody willing each other on. Put five actresses on set with a female director and you get — well, a pretty calm set 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z The sort of music they put in banking commercials: A grasping, aspirational hymn to togetherness, with lyrics Coldplay would have rejected for being too twee. Eurovision 2023: Every song ranked, from Albania to the UK 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The marketing is often notably twee, heavy on cartoon fonts and rainbow colors, the most kawaii of all the yeasted brews. Milkshake IPAs turn a hoppy beer into a drink that feels like dessert 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z If you think it’s nauseating to see sausage being made, consider the making of a twee advertising campaign. Column: The right wing pitched an absurd tantrum over M&M's. It worked. 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Through fate, design, or lots of lucky accidents, the whole morning with Murdoch was durably twee. Belle and Sebastian, still giving twee a good name 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z When I was teaching English, I sometimes recommended “Rule of the Bone” to mature students who had enjoyed “The Catcher in the Rye” but had begun to find Holden Caulfield a little twee. Review | Russell Banks wrestled with our hopes, ideals and regrets 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z A first-act set piece takes place in a classroom so impossibly twee, it seems like a tribute to past collaborator Wes Anderson. Page to Screen: An exuberant 'White Noise' reinvents Don DeLillo — and Noah Baumbach 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z During the weekend before Hanukkah, I found myself in such a place, driven into a state of dissociation by twee mugs and balsam-scented candles. The case for spending less money on holiday gifts 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The twee etiquette of the period is putty in her hands. The 10 best TV shows (and three best dance sequences) of 2022 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Across three albums, Alvvays has proved itself adept at jangly and gentle twee pop, songs so brimming with romance that heartache is inevitable. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Sure, the beginning is arch, and it’s twee, but it’s not some mindless gimmick. Review: If 'The Wonder' doesn't quite live up its title, it remains something to behold 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Only in the past few decades has a new economy evolved around the brewpubs, fine restaurants, twee gift shops and a pricey coffee shop that would fit in Brooklyn. West Virginians fear a road meant to help their towns could destroy them 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z What could have been twee and uninvolving is in fact heartwarming and enthralling. Review | The Thursday Murder Club is back in action and as entertaining as ever 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z It sounds like the plot of a twee patriotic movie: A Savannah, Ga., barber spends his days cutting hair and his nights carving busts of U.S. presidents. ‘We Are Made of Stories’: Artists who transcend the self-taught label 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Her meandering three-page recipe for this magical elixir may test your tolerance for the twee. Review | ‘The Year of Miracles’ is a welcome reminder to savor the small stuff 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z But picketing a restaurant — no matter how expensive and twee — can’t fix this situation. Opinion | Sorry, protesters. Picketing a restaurant won’t stop gentrification. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The tone of twee amusement set by the jaunty score, which portends a silly, perhaps even clownishly derisive caricature, one that looks down on its protagonist with an air of superiority? Review | ‘The Phantom of the Open’: A slyly beguiling portrait of a golf legend 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Although most of the action takes place in gritty, working-class Newcastle, “The Duke” exists in a kind of twee parallel universe of low stakes and charming eccentricity. 4 movies open May 6 at Seattle-area theaters; here’s what to see 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z For all of its expansive details, “The Swimmers” is sometimes twee in its first half. Review: A survivor of internment sinks into forgetting in Julie Otsuka's 'The Swimmers' 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Mira’s twee wildness of spirit is muted by her utter bewilderment. Review | In Sheila Heti’s ‘Pure Colour,’ the plot is just an excuse for philosophical musings 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The twee levels are off the charts, and there’s no amount of vintage sweaters and slangy lingo that can make playing the clarinet cool, despite Decker’s best efforts and Joe’s claims otherwise. Review: 'The Sky Is Everywhere,' and so are its very, very big emotions 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z People who think of Vespas as an accessory and attend highly anticipated restaurant openings do not find twee puns and sunny greetings charming. 'Emily in Paris' is back. Let's break down Season 2's most deliciously basic moments 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Her world was twee, familiar and painted in an icky soft-focus glow. Caroline and Martine: Picture book heroines who fought for French hearts 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Sounds a bit twee, but it’s actually funny, clever and often unexpectedly poignant. 3 mysteries and more paperbacks to help you ease into fall 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z "Suddenly I was not the twee thing on the hill." 'Baking boom saw them fighting over my flour' 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Nintendo’s life-simulation video game “Animal Crossing: New Horizons,” in which players build and share twee island towns populated by animal villagers, became the year’s surprise hit. How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Popular styles featured twee pastels, punchy neons, floral prints and, of course, the classic white leather models. Wheel good fun: How old-school roller skates became the perfect pandemic pastime 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z I certainly no longer get involved in these twee little exercises, so I’m not going to address that list. David Fincher has had plenty of hugs. Thank you. 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Describing football songs as "a bit twee", he was no more enthused when New Order were brought on board. 'It was like herding cats' - World in Motion revisited 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Run The premise is more than a little twee, but it’s worth keeping an eye on Run. 10 new trailers you should watch this week 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z This sounds slightly twee, a sort of pie in the sky for those who want to peddle the value of stories. The sky’s the limit: why together we’re greater than the sum of our parts 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z If the primary media we absorb and create is individually created and shared via images and videos, our society thus becomes more interested in food that is visually elaborate, appealing, even twee. The saga of the 2010s, explained through Starbucks 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z The early Safdie films were nearly twee, because the main characters tended to be wistful and a little restless. The Safdie Brothers’ Full-Immersion Filmmaking 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Embracing its twee touches, including a tinkling playful score by Alex Somers, the film finds its way into an eerie, magical fantasy space that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Review: Shia LaBeouf bares a tortured soul in autobiographical 'Honey Boy' 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Or even odder, the popularity of Tonight You Belong to Me, an eerily twee unrequited-love song made famous by sister act Patience and Prudence in 1956. 'Extremely discombobulating': why are teenagers on TikTok obsessed with the past? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z “I tried to do handstands for you,” she sang on 2008’s twee yet melancholy Bruises, which made the Boulder-to-Brooklyn transplants ubiquitous after it was used in an iPod advert. Caroline Polachek: 'Women in music are taught that once you’re 35, you’ve expired' 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z These updates won’t make them unrecognizable or twee, but they will make them taste fresh, flavorful and special. How to upgrade your sandwich with clever twists on 5 classics 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Fortunately, it was saved, although a nearby plague pit and a few curiously musty antique shops prevent this cobbled street of wattle-and-daub houses feeling as twee as similar offerings in the rest of the country. 10 reasons Norwich is one of the world’s most irresistible international holiday destinations 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It was a home church but far from the twee set-up you might imagine. The preachers getting rich from poor Americans 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z There was also a twee tepee made of sticks, a crude bow and arrow, and a wee fire pit — the perfect setting to learn to play responsibly with matches and DIY weapons. Chelsea Flower Show wows with a royal treehouse and climate change garden 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z You can pick from three colors with twee names: “just black,” “simply white,” and “the new purple-ish.” Google Pixel 3A review: a $399 phone with a great camera 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Is there a future beyond the rapaciousness of agrobusinesses and the vacuity of twee tourism? Voters are right to fear for their dying villages as Spain goes to the polls | Giles Tremlett 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z His storytelling is smart, restrained and, in a gruff way, formal; the phony familiarity and twee interjections that mar so much podcast narration are nowhere to be heard in “Conviction.” Review: ‘Conviction,’ a true-crime podcast that's more than a whodunit 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The twee, alliterative duo sound like affected comfort foods, which belies the intricacies that define Phan’s cooking. Review: At Porridge + Puffs, rice is Minh Phan's canvas for sophisticated self-expression 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z He is known for introducing the notion of “literate programming,” emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans as well as computers — a notion that nowadays seems almost twee. The Yoda of Silicon Valley 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z But the season begins with a tooth-rottingly twee trip to Paris, followed by a cloying trip to the Catskills, a setting far better served by “Dirty Dancing.” The Cloying Fantasia of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Insomniacs can write twee lists of their blessings until the cows come home, but their cortisol levels will still tend to look as if they’re gearing up to storm the Bastille. Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s been getting so much buzz, and yet its trailer made made the movie look so melodramatic, saccharine, twee, overwrought, and manically romantic. 11 new trailers you should watch this week 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z If you loved Paddington, with its vision of pretty, twee London, but would have preferred a flying woman instead of a talking bear, you are in luck. Lin-Manuel Miranda: ‘A Trump musical? I don't know how to score that yet’ 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Sometimes that feeling is forced, as in the recent, hopelessly twee Grandma’s things doc “306 Hollywood.” Review: Spanish documentary 'Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle' finds plenty to love about Grandma - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “Forever,” on Amazon, is also a show about soul mates, but it’s as twee as it is twisty. Meeting Cute on “YOU” and “Forever” 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z There are craft cocktails, listed on a card tucked tweely into a pocket inside the menu, as though it’s a library book; tiny portions of crudo; and a seven-dollar bread plate with rosemary lardo. The Sprawling, Swanky, Slightly Sterile Legacy Records 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z His blobby ink lines are playful, animated, and frequently twee, conjuring cherubs, unicorns and golden slippers. Warhol for hire: Andy's ads for Idaho potatoes (and other lucrative sidelines) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “People often think of these traditions as being rather twee,” he says. Unleash the Burryman! Britain's weirdest folk rituals 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z The writers played up Jess’s twee personality in the beginning, focusing too much on her eccentric behavior. Perspective | How Zooey Deschanel’s ‘New Girl’ character avoided the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Call me twee and sentimental, but that was pretty good. Winter Olympics 2018: closing ceremony – as it happened 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Surface finds the right tempo: The performance is wry, never twee. Review | Constellation’s ‘Skin of Our Teeth’ misses by just a hair 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Be warned, the show looks exceptionally twee, but the dark twist could make it a lot of fun. 7 new trailers you should watch this week 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Despite the twee being occasionally laid on too thick, “Goodbye Christopher Robin” is ultimately a pleasant enough wallow in British childhood, games of Poohsticks and wistful nostalgia for innocence lost. ‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ review: a tale of innocence lost 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The burst of frenzied violence that follows sends Ingrid to the psych ward, where motivational posters issue twee promises to the lost and searching: “Believe you can and you are halfway there.” Instagram comedy 'Ingrid Goes West' skewers our social media addictions with a warning for a fave-thirsty culture 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Firms like Paperwhite Studio specialize in turning restaurants into Instagram bait by designing twee sugar packets, menus, and coasters bearing slogans like “hello, my sweet” and “hug more.” How Instagram is reshaping restaurant design 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z I am totally guilty of coveting twee food. Perspective | Craft coffee, million-dollar condos and D.C.’s relentless gentrification 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z If past history is any indication, there will likely be another Instagram tweely alluding to the irony of Brits celebrating Independence Day. Everyone Who Might Be at Taylor Swift's Fourth of July Bash 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z This amiable sports drama may feature some of the hallmarks of the genre — training, isolation and competition — but its twee tone sets it apart from the pack. Olympian Alexi Pappas packs 'Tracktown' with heart 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The beauty of releasing twee, social media-friendly products is that the marketing is done for you already. Unicorn Frappuccino mania: Starbucks aims at Instagram 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z But, for all its twee escapism, vanlife is a trend born out of the recent recession. #Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The restaurants and shops on Church Street were only slightly less twee than those on Newton’s Piccadilly Square. Suburban? Just Don’t Call Her a ‘Jersey Girl’ 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z His books are creepy, empty, over-long, cheap, twee writing posing as whimsy. I do not like that Dr Seuss | Emma Brockes 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The antiques store opened two years ago, styling itself as “rustic, hipster, chic” with a twee strapline: “Mostly old with a little new.” ‘I love Trump. He’s doing what he said.’ President’s supporters keep the faith 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z He twee, "China is our enemy, they want to destroy us." Trump on Twitter: A history of the man and his medium - BBC News 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Whenever the show threatened to get twee, it veered toward spooky grandeur: an assault on Akhnaten’s temple is headed by a Grand Guignol general wearing a top hat capped by a skull. Modern Opera Thrives in L.A. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z It is filled with some 85 restaurants, ethnic and cheffy and twee. Suburban? Just Don’t Call Her a ‘Jersey Girl’ 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z There’s a proud Northern real-estate agent who wields her fingernails like talons and a crazy-eyed Irish entrepreneur who peddles twee, overpriced ceramics. Wigs, accents, and great characters mean 'Tracey Ullman's Show' picks up right where she left off 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z “Portlandia is fueling mass displacement in Portland,” it claimed, because realtors are using the show’s “popularity and insipid humor” to market the city as “something twee and whimsical for the incoming technocrat hordes”. Portlandia is ruining Portland: feminist bookstore publicly cuts ties with show 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Beneath the game’s twee character models and simplistic banter lies a tale of monstrous inexorability. Review: 'I Am Setsuna' Will Scratch Your Nostalgic Roleplaying Itch 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z “Microbe and Gasoline” bears one of the hallmarks of a Michel Gondry film — a fiercely independent D.I.Y. streak — without another of the French director’s more annoying quirks: a self-consciously twee sensibility. ‘Microbe and Gasoline’: Michel Gondry at his simple, quirk-free best 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z This is the story of “Honeyglue,” which plays a bit like a twee “The Fault in Our Stars,” or “Me Before You,” with a gender-bending twist. Bees and dragonflies can't save the heartfelt 'Honeyglue' 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z While its heart is in the right place, “Welcome to Happiness” is too fixated on its twee peccadilloes to truly succeed. 'Welcome to Happiness' fails to amuse amid all its sadness 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “It’s very twee, very last century to say they’re my guilty pleasure.” Ugg: the look that refused to die | Marisa Meltzer 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Music critics often find the folky, homespun earnestness of the lyrics twee, and they assume the fans of such lyrics are little more than faithful hipster sheep. Americana: is the 'dirt in your ears' genre a way forward for country? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z By 2009, though, they had become the reluctant poster kids for a popular wave of twee indie thanks to a ubiquitous Apple iPod Nano advert, which featured the cutesy bounce of their breakout song Bruises. Chairlift: ‘You have to be honest with where your inspiration’s coming from’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Squash has long been synonymous with prep school, with being weedy and twee, and the most heinous clubs maintain an all-whites rule that encompasses the skin tone of their members. Squash for the Midlife Slump 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The butler toddled around on its two wheels, going to answer the door, and generally looked quite twee. Up close with Segway's Advanced Personal Robot 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z At first glance, “The Great British Baking Show” seems as though it must be a recruitment video for membership in some twee and cutesy new reboot of the Empire. ‘The Great British Baking Show’ Is the Key to Understanding Today’s Britain 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Instead, he constantly interrupts his own narrative with twee drum noises so that it takes longer. “Little Drummer Boy,” the worst holiday song of all 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z This is what people who think Christmas is twee don’t get, and what unites those who embody Christmas spirit at its best. Kate Moss is the naughty fairy at the top of our Christmas tree 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z But in the run-up to Halloween, Twitter is ruined; rendered practically unusable by people of the journalistic persuasion changing their names to twee, confusing, un-funnily spooky almost-puns. Journalists' bad Halloween pseudonyms ruin Twitter for the rest of us | Nicky Woolf 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z I celebrate the downfall of English, and basically any other written language that doesn't rely entirely on twee glyphs. Emoji, emoji everywhere, and not a way to search them 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z To each his just deserts Thus the prime minister, like the Bake Off, belongs amid a great reversion in British culture to the twee and the gentle. Keep calm and vote Dave 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z His digressions often come off as twee and self-indulgent. Genetics: Dawkins, redux : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s somehow twee, conceptually small, and endlessly fascinating at the same time. NHK World is the chillest channel on TV 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z This is not just because it’s insufferably twee, although it is. Journalists' bad Halloween pseudonyms ruin Twitter for the rest of us | Nicky Woolf 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Men’s fashion has moved out of the realm of the obscure, the twee or dandy. Lessons from Men’s Fashion Week: Don’t worry, fellows, this won’t hurt a bit 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z “Zounds!” was a twee shortening of “By his wounds,” as in those of Jesus. How Dare You Say That! The Evolution of Profanity 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z I was 10, and already felt twee and repressed. Forget EL James, let’s have some real dirty fiction 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z If this sounds all too twee, critics and opponents quickly learn not to underestimate her. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘Charlie Hebdo changed Paris. But everyone said: You will not kill our spirit’ 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z It is now at once the twee height of Englishnessbut also the most basic solution to any problem, a coddle in a mug. Tea is a national disgrace | Joel Dolby 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z There has been a ceaseless embrace of twee traditionalism as a lifestyle choice over the last decade. I have become Boring. And happy | Rebecca Nicholson 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z But the search for a twee English village isn't what brings millions of people within a stone's throw of its boundaries. UK airport expansion threatens to take out entire villages 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z With her clear, penetrating eyes, she occupies the precocious kid role without being overbearingly twee: Sure, she says cute things, but she’s also a tiny assassin. Always-cool George Clooney can’t lift meandering ‘Tomorrowland’ 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Not just because Rose City stars in a television show focusing on its most twee characteristics, which are abundant. The world's first vegan mini-mall. Yeah, you're in Portland 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It suited the twee Belle and Sebastian playlist I listened to on the plane in an attempt to fall asleep, and sounded great with hip hop or harder rock music. Sol Republic's Shadow is a comfortable, lightweight wireless headphone 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Try it, try it, you may see His rhymes and pix are not so twee. Do we really want a new Dr. Seuss book? 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Along with choosing twee names, the businesses use a similar model: The delivery companies form partnerships with brick-and-mortar stores, and consumers use the delivery company’s website or app to shop. Same-Day Delivery Resurges, Adding Alcohol 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z It's a reductive argument made all the more patronizing by the authors' twee pandering. John Boehner's staff is using Taylor Swift GIFs to attack Obama 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “We’re not about being twee or making the neighborhood clean and nice,” he said. Chocolate Factory in Brooklyn Asks: What, Us? Gentrifiers? 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Instead, you became a nest of twee images and sexist drivel. The internet fixes Barbie's 'I Can Be a Computer Engineer' picture book 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z At a debate on October 11th in Davenport, on the west bank of the Mississippi, the two traded heavily-rehearsed barbs and twee small-town biographical details. The importance of being Ernst 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z This is having a raucous night out with other high-minded food people, hold the twee platings and garnishes. Hello Again, Madrid: Finding What's New in What's Old 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z What if you discover you hate culinary school or that your town really doesn’t need another twee antiques store? How To Pursue Your Passion Without Sacrificing Your Sanity 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The show's supposed to be this safe haven for twee sensibilities, a television timewarp, where all that matters is that your plum is suitably duffed. Haven't had a baby? That's you written off, then 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Maybe it will spend less time making twee jokes nobody really wants to hear. Give Neil deGrasse Tyson an Emmy 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z And what started out as a twee, ingratiating indie-music comedy becomes a more complex, even moving meditation on authenticity, self-knowledge and the dubious mythologies that attach to creative genius and mental illness. ‘Frank’ movie review: An unconventional star turn by Michael Fassbender Even the more nontraditional, “empowering” jobs sometimes tended toward the twee and overtly nurturing: Barbie has been a doctor several times, with specialties including “kid doctor,” “baby doctor” and “newborn baby doctor.” Start-up Barbie and the changing feminine ideal “What If” is also more twee and foul-mouthed than your average spin on “When Harry Met Sally.” ‘What If’ movie review: The line “Just like an animal, I protect my pride” on single “Coming of Age” is a bit too twee on its own, but the glammy echo and ’80s neon framing highlight it even more. REVIEW: Foster The People Struggles on Sophomore Album 2014-05-03T13:00:59Z It’s a risky approach to story telling as there is a danger here of it feeling twee and too cute. 'Child of Light' Depicts Joy And Heartache Of Growing Up 2014-04-03T15:59:00Z While plenty of his trademark twee lingers throughout, The Grand Budapest Hotel packs a farcical edge that recalls the stronger works of O. Henry or even Monty Python. Austin’s Silver Screen Winners: The Top 10 Films at South by Southwest 2014-03-14T20:06:49Z The Bring the Happy live show manages to avoid being not too twee and smug, however. Show seeks the secret of happiness 2014-03-06T02:21:38Z So it’s hard for me to watch the twee rituals of the current Windsors — their easels, their hats, their funny syntax — without seeing the older rites of a far more powerful enterprise. Viewpoint: The Argument Against British Royal Families 2013-07-24T08:05:26Z So it’s hard for me to watch the twee rituals of the current Windsors—their easels, their hats, their funny syntax—without seeing the older rites of a far more powerful enterprise. The Argument Against Royal Families 2013-07-23T17:22:54Z If they resist using your twee phraseology, it’s time to dial it back. 3 Signs Your ‘Amazing’ Company Culture Actually Isn’t 2013-04-25T16:45:07Z If they resist using your twee phraseology, it's time to dial it back. 3 Signs Your 'Amazing' Company Culture Actually Stinks 2013-04-22T17:52:44Z He lives in one half of a former school in the twee market town of Tavistock in Devon in southern England. The Last of His Species 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z Not only is it picturesque in that slightly twee north Oxford way, it is also still the only free first class ground in the country. The most beautiful cricket grounds in the world – in pictures 2013-01-25T18:40:33Z Though it probably doesn’t hurt that it’s also super twee. Couple breaks up, sings about it, teaches us something 2012-12-07T18:23:00Z Stately and twee, the Elves inhabit a kind of Middle Earth Renaissance Faire. The Hobbit: A Lot of Trudging 2012-12-05T14:35:00Z “I thought it was a bit twee,” said Ms. Tobias, a yoga instructor and author from London, when the conversation turned to the Olympics and its opening ceremony. At American Hotel in Sag Harbor, Tales and Drinks Still Flow 2012-08-07T02:56:59Z It was a bit bucolic and bits of it were hideously twee but overall it was hugely spectacular, and I'm saying that as a professional cynic. My Olympics: 'It's fantastic when the underdog wins' 2012-07-29T16:15:55Z Not the twee aid worker or disingenuous politician’s/ career bureaucrat’s morality. Viewpoint: Africa must do more to profit from China 2012-05-22T03:46:26Z I must have seen the twee crossed keys of UBS a million times, but my brain refused to supply the name. Logos Quiz Game Snags Financial Times Editor, Dear Lucy columnist "Became a Slave" 2012-05-22T13:06:35Z Not only was it quite twee, but it was also relatively modest – and remarkably exposed for a "celebrity" home. On the trail of Steve Jobs in California 2012-05-19T23:05:28Z "But I thought their men were awfully twee," said Olive. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z Then he would hop down from the tree, perch on the gate, and begin his sweet wee song: “Twitter, twitter, twee!” Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Anglophilia, a demented form of cultural fetishism, is directed not at the things that make Britain great but at those — bowler hats, Harrods, people with names like Bonham-Carter — that make it twee. Why America's Anglophiles Are Missing the Point of the Royal Wedding 2011-04-28T09:10:00Z There's usually a twee, antiquarian sensibility about it, maybe you grow a handlebar moustache and print a label with an ancient letterpress. In Ohio Ice Cream Chain's Success, Hope for Other Artisans 2011-03-09T07:50:00Z Bap! is the knock of the stick, or "lick of the stick" as they say. twee twee, the squeak of the rat. no make, don't let. it the worst fe carry, etc. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z It was a little vignette, if that's not too twee a word for a mud-wrestle of this kind, that summed up the afternoon. Leicester 21-12 Wasps 2011-02-19T20:17:08Z Undoubtedly, the surreal brilliance of the concept is less pronounced the second time around and Stephen Fry voiceovers are beginning to sound like twee self parody, no matter where you hear them. LittleBigPlanet 2 review 2011-01-19T14:33:06Z T — Mary Bullock More twee jive from the world capital of it–BKLYN. Giving Away Art Is Easier in Brooklyn 2010-09-16T16:43:00Z Instead it all looks rather twee: another centrepiece is Kinectimals, a virtual pet simulator which lets children play with cuddly imaginary tiger cubs and the like. Why talk to a computer? Surely talking to a human is traumatic enough? 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z It must have been "devey" and "twee" to have gone through all those experiences. The Dop Doctor "There's your perfectly twee little desk, dear old officer," he said, pointing to a massive piece of furniture facing his own. Bones in London Its voice is as homely as its appearance—a harsh but plaintive twee, twee, twee. A Bird Calendar for Northern India You stand up there against the twee, and I'll make good shots. A Little Mother to the Others I can't remember at all about the funny water and the twee with the flowers, and all of it. The Golden Scarecrow It was the year when "devey," and "twee," and similar abbreviations first became fashionable. The Dop Doctor And Birdie Brown sang Twirrrr twitter twirrrr twee— Apples and cherries, roses and honey; Little Boy Blue has listened to me— All so jolly and funny. At the Back of the North Wind C. Forncrook, Hermitage, N. Y. I claim the combination of the valve, d, adjustable bridge, g, chamber, B, and tweer, A, arranged and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth. Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. "I'm afraid we should say it was 'twee' in England," Mary smiled, "which sounds worse." The Nest Builder "Yes, I'd rather my house were a sheep than a 'twee,' because I do at least know that a sheep is useful, and I'm sure a 'twee' can't be." The Nest Builder Well," Constance went on, "you must be particularly 'twee' then, to James' mother, who is a Quaker from Philadelphia, and an American gentlewoman of the old school. The Nest Builder |
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