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"Everything about Tobias and Almut is so easy and sanitised, so positively twee and precious, that they are borderline unbearable to watch."

Despite its heavy subject matter, We Live In Time has been praised as "life-affirming", although other critics have described it as "positively twee".

Amanda found herself being insulted for her looks and her weight, while the music weekly printed death threats from readers who hated the band and their twee image, which stood out during the swaggering Britpop era.

July’s work has frequently been described as whimsical or twee, but those adjectives can’t convey the molten core of this book, which is at once hilarious and dead serious.

In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Isaac asks Tracyanne about a certain word that’s often used to describe Camera Obscura: twee.