The place oozes the atmosphere of another age and makes no concessions to modern modishness.

Admission that his interest lay in book's modishness.

There is also a chic and classy modishness to her paintings that make them collectibles for all.

During the past seven centuries of Western modernity, the most extreme bodily modishness always was reversible.

How does the cycle of change, from modishness to disrepute and back to camp revival, affect our perception of the world around us?

J Map In quaint Trastevere, the modernist modishness of this place stands out.

As in every army, there is a bizarre modishness, based on the new Russia's access to Hollywood's vision of war combined with a Chechen setting.

In a curious fashion, the play does have a certain modishness as a period piece foreshadowing all those ghostly romantic comedies currently filling movie screens.

Mandrake is another strip with double-appeal-to the men for adventure action, and to the women because of the accurate modishness of Narda's wardrobe.

Only in the film's jarringly weak and grandiose ending does Mr. Joanou's modishness truly get the best of him, however.

The more the bra seems like underwear, the sexier it is; when it's more like a bikini top, the effect is simple modishness.

But he said that it might yet yield a few surprise scandals in a state where he noted that misconduct is unexpected for other reasons besides Connecticut's modishness and manners.

The buildings were the same assemblage of disparate once-recent styles as those at the university: the same jarring fragmentation of space, the same dismal failure at modishness.

Milan, which she dislikes, brings out her best, as she mocks its modishness, its thirst for glamour, its faultlessly dressed matrons, its cultists and its gurus.

In a fine white shirt and gold chain, Mr. Dholakia sat in his round white office, its sterile modishness far from his dusty youth, and analyzed his ascent.

In his New Biographical Dictionary of Film entry on Schlesinger, David Thomson writes that the film "deserves a place in every archive to show how rapidly modishness withers.

Mr. Russo, who designed the men's wear for the Spike Lee film "Mo' Better Blues," makes clothes that have the modishness to suit a musician but are calm enough to be worn for business.

With a rare bit of modishness, Ms. Champalimaud added sparkly Italian glass floor tiles and an ocher Chinese wall frieze - herons en pointe near rocks - by artists imported from Lisbon.

Despite its current modishness and eternal thorniness, Mr. Artschwager's art takes as one of its big themes the anonymous and inexorable passing of the American scene, of its people, objects and buildings.

Sir Nugent, becoming momently more like an actor in a Greek tragedy, was lamenting over one boot, while Pett nursed the other, and recalling every circumstance that had led him to design such a triumph of modishness.

The reviewer from the Independent was "reasonably impressed", appreciating flashes of lyricism behind the modishness, and adding "It's not every day you get to see a soprano bend a percussionist backwards over an upturned bucket and use his arms as beaters."

The latter was notable for the size of her hat (striking in black, though so large that whoever was sitting behind her in the Abbey might have felt irked) and the modishness of her grey Paul Costelloe outfit, which augurs well for Zara's own forthcoming nuptials.