Avant-garde album

Usage examples of artsy.

An artsy sax player sporting a little silver goatee squeezed his eyes shut in ecstasy, leaning into his spotlight serenade.

She looked slowly around the room, passing over artsy types and business types until her eye found a man who was a combination of both.

Or was it his artsy friend, Philippe, in one of those tongue-in-cheek, swaggering monologues of his?

Boy ascribed a low coefficient of irritant potential to Miss Stern, regarding her as a typical young American intellectual woman seeking a cause to justify her existence, until marriage, career, or artsy hobbies defused her.

Cineplexes show movies from cartoons to chick flicks to action films to artsy dramas.

Family portraits, artsy shots of nude men and women, even several examples of family pets.

A photographer stood three feet back from the wall, killing time taking artsy shots of the hands.

Ryan was moving again, running past the back-street shops, the once-Victorian houses that now had artsy paint jobs and craftsy signs.

I got up and walked to one of the artsy framed photographs on the wall.

Ryan was moving again, running past the back-street shops, the once-Victorian houses that now had artsy paint jobs and craftsy signs.

As the initial funders had died off and the enthusiasm of the dedicated artsy money had waned and endowment had been sought in more down-to-earth quarters, the curricular emphasis had switched to other arenas.

What lives in folk memory is truer than how some artsy poet says it.

You may think of the theater as being sophisticated and artsy, but our roots are in traveling troupes that were closer to carnivals and snake-oil shows than any black-tie opening night.

In the past decade, my employers have included three carnivals, four roadside peep shows, two direct-to-video horror movie producers, and an artsy off-Broadway troupe bent on reviving Le Grand Guignol.