单词 | effete |
例句 | They were uniformly young: good-looking, effete boys and equally good-looking, loud girls. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Traditionally, effete has meant “barren,” “used up,” or “worn out.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Highlanders dismiss lowlanders as effete sago eaters, while lowlanders dismiss highlanders as primitive big-heads, referring both to their massive coiled hair and to their reputation for arrogance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Writers who might once have worried that showing an interest in food suggested they were either effete gourmandisers or vying for Delia's crown now stake a proud claim for the subject's centrality. A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Thrillingly, no one finds this a problem, least of all Alexander Campbell's gloriously effete King of France, who is so smitten with her that he changes the new baby's nappies. The Three Musketeers and the?Princess of Spain 2010-12-08T22:31:00Z Funny, frail, effete, Bettany’s Warhol is as meticulously impersonal as his art, and my goodness he whines. ‘The Collaboration’ Review: A Basquiat-Warhol Bromance in Bloom 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z It at least suggests a nascent anxiety: that to appreciate the music in a direct and visceral or even emotional way would be untoward for the effete, urbane listener. Riff: Lady Mondegreen and the Miracle of Misheard Song Lyrics 2012-07-13T18:54:28Z Not a passing shower or a tropical gullywasher, not some effete drizzle but constant, temperate rainfall lasting for several hours. Perspective | Your plants are parched. How you water makes all the difference. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Despite his abundance of lyrical talent, we’ll be sure not to mistake him for some effete literary type. What Wins in the Heartland, Machismo or Intellect? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z He was the effete Yale man and the blue blood wimp; the awkward statesman who, when called upon to speak, diced the English language into an uneven and mysterious julienne. Review: In ‘Destiny and Power,’ George H.W. Bush Epitomizes a Vanishing G.O.P. 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z If too many contemporary novels strike you as effete and suburban, here’s survivalist fiction at its rawest from a novelist who sometimes sounds as bleak as our own Cormac McCarthy. Review | The tale of a disaffected teen on the run from a crime he didn’t commit 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z In fact, Wilson hopes the documentary helps shed his profession’s effete reputation. | The Goofy, Cultish World of Master Sommeliers 2013-06-19T22:45:49Z It pains me to say it, but I think Christian Lander — and his colleagues in the “mocking effete white liberals” business — are seriously damaging the culture at large. From Stuff White People Like to #NotYourShield: How irony is killing activism 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Tarantino says, “The days are gone” of Diego “pretending to be effete.” Zorro at 100: Why the original swashbuckler is still the quintessential American action hero 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z In a broadside at fellow musicians, he said that some were sidelining Bach into "a rarefied and effete ghetto" while others were turning "philosophical masterpieces" into "shallow showpieces". Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z Even if the comment is initially meant to be self-aware or ironic, the rest of the book belies any attempt at irony by presenting Owen as an archetypical effete. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z Spouting academic jargon like an effete dictator while wreaking havoc with a fussy sneer, this architect from hell relishes nothing more than remaking the world in his own outlandish image. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Europe was seen as effete, corrupt, supercilious and haughty. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z Bob is the man in charge not just of the magazine’s famously effete single-panel cartoons, but also of its weekly caption contest, where it publishes a cartoon without a caption and readers submit their own. The booby prize 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Waterston’s Elyot is molded in the Coward style: There’s a wisp of the feminine in a voice pitched higher, and in a manner a bit more effete, than you expect from his manly demeanor. ‘Private Lives’: Old flames reignite in smart Lansburgh revival of Coward’s comedy It was held against him as being an example of an effete character. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z The show’s depiction of an effete King George III, Britain’s ruler during the U.S. revolutionary war, also drew some of the biggest laughs of the night from the British crowd. 'Hamilton' takes center stage in London's West End 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z I anticipate living with an effete punk rocker with spiky hair. Dahlia, give me one more chance However, he's up against two cutthroat warlords: the effete, very French Bob and locavore Rose, who grows her own greens, raises grass-fed lambs and wears a very familiar cloche hat. Bourdain book goes graphic: Chef playfully skewers foodie culture 2012-07-10T04:59:47Z I suppose I was supposed to be made effete by the experience. Film: Attitude Adjustment: How Harvard Views ?Love Story? 2010-08-22T01:13:00Z One of the popular misconceptions about university life in America is that most students are effete “elites” who have never so much as looked at an unpaid bill. The case for open borders 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z “It weighs a couple of hundred pounds,” says the actor, whose effete tendencies are reserved for television. Kelsey Grammer 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z The low-budget action movies that the iconoclastic critic Manny Farber called “underground films” in an essay defiantly subtitled “a bit of male truth”— nothing effete about these flicks — were Hollywood mainstays through the 1950s. A Director Who Is Old School With a Vengeance 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z His disrespect for property rights is what ultimately does him in, not his effete manner. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Ian Fried, who performs as Orion Dove, wore fluffy white boots, struck effete poses and used an enormous henchman to do his dirty work. Inside the Ring of Underground Wrestling 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Its first half performs an erudite vaudeville routine, in prose so unrelentingly pregnant that it ends up effete. Final Demands by Frederic Raphael 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z McMahon writes gritty, ultra-realistic horror – a welcome antidote to the effete horror romance currently flooding the market – about the angst of urban existence in the 21st century. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2012-06-01T21:53:01Z Whereas hip-hop could bring joy to the masses while retaining a sense of experimental play, perhaps indie rock had become too “refined and effete,” increasingly detached from “lived, earned experience.” Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Neither the stereotyped effete smiles nor the startling clumsiness of some details — the hand of the clown in white, the brim of his hat — troubled bidders. Auctions: At Auction, the Treasures of a Tycoon War Hero 2011-04-08T13:29:04Z Kaplan says the first Adams was seen By his opponents as an effete New Englander, someone too removed from regular people. How the Bush political dynasty measures up to the Adams clan 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z And, traditionally, the crowds mock us: the effete brainiacs, the absurd eggheads, the mad scientists. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The quartet of fauns scamper with preposterous, effete randiness; the Nymphs get caught up in their floaty bri-nylon veils; the Maidens chomp through their bunches of grapes. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 2010-09-26T21:30:00Z And it improvises on decades of work on the right to stitch the words “effete” and “liberal” together, painting a whole swath of the political spectrum as a feminine affectation. The Medical Mask Becomes a Protest Symbol 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Villon is in most ways the absolute antithesis of the Romantic notion of the poet as a somewhat effete figure starving in a garret and suffering for their art. Poster poems: Crime 2013-01-18T09:00:04Z Armed with this knowledge, Vincent insinuates himself into Oscar’s effete, decadent, and sophisticated world of literary distinction and plots revenge for his abandonment. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Years later, when her son came to write “The Time Machine,” his Morlocks dwell in subterranean darkness and feed on the effete Eloi of the surface world. Review | ‘Lives of Houses’ is a lovely book to savor while you’re stuck at home 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Another point of contention was the suggestion that Whitehall would play a “camp” and “effete” character. Jack Whitehall's role as first major gay Disney character sparks row 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Another is that after punk came these grindcore bands who said punks are effete – let's go faster, be angrier and be proper anarchists. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z If much British fiction is effete and American fiction overcommercialized, Indian fiction, on the showing of Mr. Rushdie and now Mr. Ghosh, is alive. Looking Back at Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Circle of Reason’ 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The show’s depiction of an effete King George III, Britain’s ruler during the U.S. revolutionary war, also drew some of the biggest laughs of the night from the British crowd. 'Hamilton' takes center stage in London's West End 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Reynolds's Parody of Raphael's School of Athens, while depicting effete and ugly Grand Tourists cluttering up the salons of Italy, nonetheless provided him with an entrée to those self-same tourists' buying power. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Here he has none of the effete, fussy charm he perfected on “Frasier.” Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z The central character, Myrtle, is a dim but spirited two-bit showgirl who throws her lot in with an effete young man named Lot, the neurasthenic owner of a broken-down house in the Mississippi Delta. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z Nevertheless, he makes an enormous impression as an agile, wily, effete and fearless mentor to the Stark girl. Tyrion, Daenerys ... Hot Pie? The greatest Game of Thrones characters 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Americans don't like abstract theorizing or deep introspection; we are a nation of doers, not thinkers like those effete Europeans. 'America the Philosophical': Deep thinking in the land of the free 2012-06-06T21:19:10Z His Washington rival, the director of national intelligence, Cyril Hoffman, is a pretentious, effete power broker, representative of old, inside-the-Beltway cynicism. ‘The Director,’ by David Ignatius, a Novel About the C.I.A. 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Subtle thought and fine manners — powerful tools no matter to what ends they are put — are still dismissed as unnecessary refinement, effete and pretentious. The French, improving American taste for more than 200 years 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z And as in his “Earnest” for Intiman Theatre, in 1994, Pappas draws hearty laughs from effete humor, while maintaining British restraint. Oscar Wilde’s elegant wit shines in Seattle Shakes’ ‘Earnest’ 2014-03-26T23:59:36Z I was impressed by how unlikable — how needy and ineffectual, how effete and whiny — Mr. Roth was willing to seem. Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z It's worth catching, if only because nobody, absolutely nobody, does effete Englishmen with slight speech impediments half as well as Carvel. Radio: The Reunion takes us back to the birth of Doctor Who 2013-04-06T05:00:07Z Sévère’s evanescent and delicate approach, abetted by the often too reticent pianist Paul Montag, was the same in both pieces, elegantly capturing Poulenc’s Gallic melancholy but proving too effete for the smoldering Brahms. Young French clarinetist in fine form in D.C. debut 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Though you’re of the loathed elite, Condescending and effete, Life can once again be sweet For folks like you. Style Invitational: Do over the do-over — enter any of the year’s contests 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The odes are so beautiful — and Keats’s image as a sensualist, an effete Romantic aesthete, so firmly established — that it is easy to overlook how philosophically accomplished and profound they are. Review | Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Could this be the launch of a hopeful corrective to questions of academic relevance, a rejoinder to the claim that the lit world is politically effete? A canon round for democracy: The literati’s power in a populist era is limited, but vital 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Loved that camp coup de grace, the effete Limey farewell. The Walking Dead season seven premiere: The Day Will Come When You Won't Be 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The clean, zestful sound of the choir never sounds effete, though the Barbican is just a touch too large and dry to support the big choruses. Handel's Messiah/ The Sixteen; Messiah: 500 Voices, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ? review 2010-12-26T00:04:02Z At the start, the emperor, a musician and composer, an effete connoisseur of nature and culture, is in inconsolable mourning for his late wife and rejects all feminine attentions. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z It's got to the stage now where it's like some high-camp, super-soap opera with conniving women running rings around clueless, effete men. TV highlights 30/07/2012 2012-07-29T21:00:01Z Perfetti gives him an effete contemporaneity, but the character needs new lines more than a new look. Review: John Douglas Thompson and Alfred Molina’s clash of titans transcends dated ‘Inherit the Wind’ 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Zeman, a rambunctious, old-school politician with a knack for connecting with ordinary people, delights in offending effete liberal sensibilities and conventional wisdom. Ex-NATO General and Ex-Prime Minister to Face Off in Czech Republic’s Presidential Race 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z The painting shows the artist in profile, his left hand effetely raised. Henry Taylor, the democratic king of portraiture, makes his L.A. homecoming at MOCA 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The network was widely perceived as stuffy and effete. Robert Ferrante, exec who energized NPR’s ‘Morning Edition,’ dies at 87 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Andy Warhol — effete, strange-looking with his pallid skin and silver wig — was emerging as the principal practitioner of Pop Art. Review | Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol’s bond was fleeting. The movies live on. 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z They dive into the players’ sensibilities and seem to understand that being weird, effete or ambivalent might be part of these athletes’ power. Is That Steph Curry … or a Work of Art? 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The picture presented to the nation and the world was of a China about to resume its rightful place as the center of the world after a brief interruption by effete Western values. Opinion | The Chinese Communist Party’s 100th birthday vs. America’s 250th 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z It seemed that suddenly, people — men, largely — who perhaps were always cosmetically curious, but afraid of appearing effete, were giving it a try. Makeup Is for Everyone 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Former president Donald Trump made a point of elevating his own unhealthy eating habits to be the stuff of real Americans, while consigning healthy eating to being a preoccupation of effete elites. Biden’s climate change plan may not nix cheeseburgers, but science says beef should be on the chopping block 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z “I think for starters, Republicans may be intimidated by what are on occasion effete voices. I know the New York Times always used out-of-work actors and artists on the telephone.” ‘Biggest losers’: Pollsters flunk election forecasts in 2016 sequel 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Running on a promise to bring back the coal industry and coal power, attacking Democrats as effete “globalists,” Trump won landslide victories across Ohio’s stretch of Appalachia. The seven political states of Ohio 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z I am an effete quasi-intellectual with no practical skills of any kind. We mocked preppers and survivalists – until the pandemic hit 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Reagan defined himself against effete, urban New Deal liberalism. Review | Southern elites, Western libertarians and the conservative coalition 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z These protests also lay bare the larger incoherence of the right-wing mythology that conservatives are rugged individualists who are tougher and better prepared than those supposedly soft, effete liberals in the big cities. Michigan manbaby protest: Wait, we thought conservatives were "rugged individuals" 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Furthermore, he is a two-fisted, spit-in-your-eye, down-to-earth cove with none of our effete English intellectual pretensions, and the sheila has not been born who can resist his vibrant sexual magnetism for more than seven seconds. Will Greg Norman reach superstardom? - Golf Digest 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z That playbook worked in 2000 against Al Gore, who was characterized as effete for his environmentalism. Did Bernie Sanders praise George Wallace? No, but expect a lot more smears like that 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z People in cities like Prato, next to Florence in the heart of Tuscany, have come to see the left as a tribe of effete technocrats, prescribing globalization as the solution to every problem. The Chinese Roots of Italy’s Far-Right Rage 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z For you effete coastal residents who are unfamiliar with the delights of flyover country, “DQ” means Dairy Queen. Opinion | ‘Texodus’ bodes badly for Republicans 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z On the surface, a Pittman painting might seem to conjure effete mannerism. Love, sex, death and the language of painting: Lari Pittman on his Hammer retrospective 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z “There’s a lot of effete thinking,” he said. Sterling Ruby’s Mixed Media 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Andrews soon learns that he is on a fool’s errand and sheds his starry-eyed Transcendentalism, along with other effete East Coast illusions. John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “Squash courts? Just what the girls need. That’s got to be the height of effete, elite snobbery.” The Private School vs. the Radical Priest 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z She is a villain, cursed for obstructing the president’s will and embodying the caricature of Democrats as a bunch of effete left-wing nut cases. They say terrible things about Nancy Pelosi. Her response: Just win, Democrats - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z That gave him the star's effete British accent and, more importantly, told everyone on the set of the Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody that he was ready for action. How Rami Malek became Freddie Mercury 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z I don’t know that such rumbling matters much to the electorate: For voters who back Trump partly because they see him as anti-elitist, fussing by effete intellectual snobs is less a demerit than a credential. Opinion | Desperately Seeking Principled Republicans 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z What makes the internal poll results so tantalizing—and embarrassing for Trump—is that Republicans have spent years gleefully caricaturing Pelosi as the embodiment of effete, out-of-touch coastal liberalism. Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is more popular than President Donald Trump, RNC poll finds 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Now sure, if this behavior was just limited to either side of the country, it could be written off as the effete fiddling-while-Rome-burns antics of the coastal elite. Yes, let's wipe out Trump. But take neoliberal Democrats with him, too | David Sirota 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In office, he assailed intellectuals as “an effete corps of impudent snobs” for coddling student protesters. ‘Nattering nabobs of negativism’: The improbable rise of Spiro T. Agnew 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z They have grown tired of decency and tolerance, which they dismiss as effete. Opinion | Trump is a bully. Brett Kavanaugh will stand up to him. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The president’s recipe for political success is to appear more down-to-earth than his effete critics in the media, and so robustly transactional that his political rivals appear hypocritical by comparison. Why Stormy Daniels is so dangerous 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z And Mahaffy strikes just the right note of effete hubris as the Dauphin. Shakespeare purists may flinch, but this shortened 'Henry V' is a rousing ride 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The film, which opens Friday, centers on a caveman named Dug and his Stone Age tribe, whose peaceful existence is threatened by effete Bronze Age warriors with Monty Python French accents. Nick Park is back in the stop-motion animation game with 'Early Man' 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z We're done with politically correct, effete, and arrogant politicians, who are one thing in public, and quite another behind closed doors. Opinion | Trump Shows Us the Way 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z To his base, Trump is a conquering hero “triggering the libs,” a middle finger to the globalists and the intellectuals, a source of anxiety to those effete Europeans who cheered Barack Obama in Berlin. Perspective | Trump’s first year: A damage assessment 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The problem, Longstreth suggested – to Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold of all people – was that indie rock had become too “refined and effete”, detached from “lived, earned experience”. 'My identity is not your fad': how indie got woke 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z I am a social liberal, an effete east-coaster with a graduate degree, a multilingual person with international business experience. Flynn May Have Broken Law by Not Disclosing Russia Dealings, Lawmakers Say 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z They’re not the hateful caricatures that some liberals expect, any more than New York liberals are the effete paper cutouts that my old friends assume. We must win over, not deride, Trump voters 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z His father, Prince Philip, thought him weedy, effete, and spoiled. Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The end of the effete, philosophical founding generation. Opinion | Trump has picked a deeply disturbing hero 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The French nobles are effete and opportunistic, and serve an unworthy monarch: at Timbers’s request, the Dauphin’s cape has been altered to include a hoodie with dangling white drawstrings. A Protest Musical for the Trump Era 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z A few minutes later, just as the pianist switched from Schubert to Haydn, an effete, penguin-suited waiter presented the sparkling riesling with a bow. Navigating Vienna’s Imperial Past — Through Pastries 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “Weren’t they opposed to the devious money-grubbing Jews and the effete, sophisticated ruling classes that chased after alien gods?” Review | Inside the anger that gave us Trump — and that will long outlast him 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The show is fawned upon by effete elites such as myself. The real winner of the ‘Hamilton’ scrap 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Earth's history is full of barbarian victories over effete civilization, but this time some of the biggest barbarians are already inside the gates. It’s No Cold War, but Vladimir Putin Relishes His Role as Disrupter 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In its reluctance to disobey itself, it often seemed effete. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Only the effete ideologues who support what they call "net neutrality" could ask consumers to pay more in the name of consumer choice. Net Neutrality Isn't Progressive 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z It used to be that Republicans were the effete ones and Democrats the salt-of-the-earth. There are no Reagan Democrats: The GOP has become the party of rich, white Southerners 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But I’m not effete and I don’t walk with a mince or anything. Lindsay Kemp: ‘I was destined for stardom … I’m still waiting for it’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z All these years we’ve assumed that such purveyors of effete, Big City values were anathema to the heartland values of Real America. The mad king of New York: Why the Empire State lies at the heart of Donald Trump’s sinister appeal 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z It is an arresting thought – an effete French aristocrat in some bug-infested cabin, reading about his own nation being pulverised at Agincourt. West side story: how Shakespeare stormed America's frontier 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Polari’s weapon was camp – turning on its head the idea that “camp” was effete and submissive, instead transforming it into something powerful and defiant. In with the in crowd: secret languages can confuse, exclude or empower 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Consider his appearance: suit three sizes too small, effete crew cut, clamp-on red bow tie. 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' is an oddly comic odyssey 1985-08-09T04:00:00Z I will only vote for the presidential candidate who declares that Pluto IS the 9th planet despite what some effete, intellectual snobby astronomers say. Ninth Planet May Exist Beyond Pluto, Scientists Report 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Dewey’s defeat in 1948 haunted the Republican Party: was he too liberal, too eastern, too effete? Ghosts of the G.O.P.’s First Nationally Broadcast Debate 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z And there were buyers, people who had status — effete, precious snobs — who wanted to show off. The Lives They Lived 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z I like that Cheney is not effete – his coarse words reminded me of his blue-collar background, something I relate to and respect. Trumpeting Trash Talk 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z It’s impossible to imagine the effete reality-show billionaire at the head of a Beer Hall Putsch or going to prison as a martyr for his cause. No, Trump isn’t the next Hitler: But his real historical comparison is still scary 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z He stands for a kind of effete deviance that is attractive to someone like Will, who knows that he is not like everyone else and there is darkness lurking deep inside him. Hannibal recap: Season three finale – The Wrath of the Lamb 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Viewers tuned in by the millions to watch the founder of National Review go toe-to-toe with the effete writer of “Myra Breckenridge” in a series of increasingly heated exchanges. ‘Best of Enemies’: William F. Buckley, Gore Vidal TV debates brought out intellectuals’ worst 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z It was, as all this suggests, a rather effete culture. Why “The Tale of Genji” Is Still Seductive 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z In other words, he’s weak and effete, with a poor constitution. Lena Dunham’s Not an Anti-Semite, She’s Just Clueless 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z “Let them sip their pumpkin peach ale,” the ad copy read, in between cliché-ridden images of mustachioed men in hipster glasses sniffing effete brews out of fancy glasses. The Frothy Backlash to Budweiser Ad Mocking Craft Beer 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Because of this military power, Bowlby was confident that imperial China's rulers - "effete and faithless Mandarins", he called them - would "soon be suing for mercy". The palace of shame that makes China angry 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z In its simplest form – such as that offered by Scalia – this means that, in Hollywood-ish fashion, there’s no place for effete concerns about “morality” when a nuclear bomb is ticking away in Los Angeles. Dick Cheney and Antonin Scalia Dismiss Moral High Ground in Torture Debate 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z His effete, indie growl of a voice doesn’t touch your heart well enough to pull you in deeper. Review: Justin Townes Earle falls short on new LP 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The ban served Putin’s propaganda purposes, deepening the divide between the vast majority of patriotic Russians and the tiny minority of effete Westernizers. Putin’s Sanctions Against Russia 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Ernst’s side wants to paint Braley as an effete trial lawyer more comfortable at a Washington fundraiser than an Iowa barnyard. Democrats struggle in critical Iowa Senate race 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z No, but Grammer seems to be playing a slightly less effete version of the same character. Partners: Grammer and Lawrence break first law of sitcoms – be funny 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z It's only in the US that football becomes a wussy game for the effete elite. 'Soccer' is a virus invading America. Where are all the rowdy football fans? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The image of the southern dandy with his silk hat and seersucker suit satisfied a populist imagination that viewed effete southern slave-owners with disdain. Brian Schweitzer's 'gay-dar' did pick up on something about Southern men 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z The response to the shorts heard 'round the world plays in to a common anxiety in our culture: that America is a nation in decline, that our men are too effete. The suits-with-shorts 'trend' is just fine. Now get over your dandy panic already 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Contemporary art today, much of it at least, is less effete than industrial, a battle of calloused hands and computers fighting the limits of resistant materials, in a mad search for beauty or provocation. The Saturday Profile: In Struggles of Artist With His Work, Hints of Mexico’s Own 2014-02-22T03:20:37Z And I was just a very intellectual, effete kid — I was probably reading Proust at that point in my life — and that experience made me a lot grittier and tougher. Corner Office: Be Yourself, Redfin’s Glenn Kelman Says, Even if You’re a Little Goofy 2013-08-24T17:10:06Z The National Rifle Association can’t paint them as effete foes of the Second Amendment. Letter From Washington: Honoring an Advocate of Gun Limits 2013-05-05T19:02:23Z An Arsenal defeat is often met with accusations of an effete approach while victories usually spark epithets of eminence. Arsenal's will makes up for lack of domination, says Arsène Wenger 2012-12-23T22:59:01Z And when I say “our,” I mean we as Americans, not just the coterie of effete gourmands I tend to eat with in New York City. What Happened to the American Middle-Class Meal? 2012-10-17T12:20:50Z This is not a sport for the effete or the afraid. London 2012 Olympics: in defence of dressage 2012-08-10T12:41:46Z And Germany, the favourites, are playing with Gomez, a striker who embodies both the poacher and the – occasionally effete – big man, both presumed on the ailing list. Euro 2012: Talk of death of the striker has been greatly exaggerated 2012-06-17T13:13:09Z Has India's politics and economy become hostage to petty interests, helped abundantly by a government which is seen as effete and weak? Is the India growth story over? 2012-06-01T10:05:26Z Structure has sold 1.4 million copies and the overused "paradigm shift" has attained the status of effete cliché in countless, numbing business conference PowerPoints. A Q&A with Ian Hacking on Thomas Kuhn's Legacy as "The Paradigm Shift" Turns 50 2012-04-27T18:15:02.480Z In that civilisation Christianity had indeed been legally enthroned; but the philosophies and traditions of Paganism, and the ingrained habits of an ancient, and at the same time an effete society, continually paralysed its energies. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Bold, bluff, genial, hearty, and obliging they were, even though given to occasional outbursts of expletives and possessing voluminous repertoires of “cuss-words” such as would startle the effete East. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Their attire was a weird mixture of effete savagery and of the civilisation of the sort which is picked up from living in touch with white Africa and missionary societies. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z She is doing duty to-day, and is by no means an effete example, but an excellent and useful vessel. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z I dissent from this cahier because it is effete and futile; because, if for no other reason, the time when it could have been of service is past. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z To Cipriani the English school owes some refinement tempering the rough originality of Hogarth, but his art, "the worn-out and effete art of modern Italy," left few permanent traces on that of England. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z And yet it was upon this ground that the great French thinker renounced Christianity, proposing his new religion of humanity as a substitute for a selfish and effete supernaturalism! The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Political subjection to an effete despotism, and addiction to opium, had enervated the national mind, and rendered the Chinese helpless as a race. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z It has several times been stated that in cholera the urine is diminished, and that, therefore, the blood retains a larger proportion of effete products than in health. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z If this is admitted, it might be alleged, that if such be our fated tenure of life, recourse to medical aid becomes useless, and the efforts of physicians must prove effete. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z If there be any sour or sodden or effete soil into which the roots have not run, this should be carefully picked out with a pointed stick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Men of sturdy common-sense, men with brains and the knowledge how to use them, are every day bursting the trammels of an effete orthodoxy.” Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z Mr. Putin heaped abuse on the demonstrators as effete agents of the U.S. Russia After Putin 2012-02-25T04:03:25Z Doubtless, as in other cases of renal obstruction, an increased proportion of effete matter is eliminated by the skin, if not by the bowels. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Possibly they all combined to assist the physician’s efforts, or rather aid his effete treatment. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The old town is the effete body into which the new is infusing young blood, warming and invigorating it into new life. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z To his amazement that effete person declined altogether to interfere. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Those who talk of the "effete despotisms" of the Old World, would be amazed at the signs of vitality in this old but not decaying empire. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z But his ration would doubtless consist to a greater extent of hay and straw-chaff, containing a larger proportion of indigestible and effete woody fibre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Such incidents cannot be ignored: they illustrate a movement which is not quite effete. South America and the War 2012-02-10T03:00:17.163Z I'm afraid those effete prejudices are still very strong in you. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z The Scots subsist on booze and haggis — sheep’s offal cooked in the animal’s stomach; the English are effete meddlers poking their snooty noses into Scotland’s affairs, stealing its North Sea oil revenues. Letter From Europe: The Move by Scotland to Go It Alone 2012-01-16T12:40:08Z The Nizam himself, an effete individual, had a red fez, a pearl watch-chain, and dazzling emerald rings, but was otherwise in European dress. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z It is the conqueror who becomes effete, and it is the conquered who learns discipline and the qualities making for a well-ordered State. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Besides, railroad trains were luxurious and effete; they were not for him. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Still, you have a few effete aristocratic notions clinging about you. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z I recollect his pronouncing one word "effete" in a soft charming accent. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The journey to this spot of incomparable beauty could then be made soft enough to suit all but the most effete. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z A paralysis of thought characterizes the whole community, for thought deprived of its legitimate results is like the human race debarred from its productive functions—it becomes effete, and soon extinct. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z We have seen this illustrated in the person of the learned Bishop D�llinger, who has been excommunicated simply because he refused to accept the new fangled notions of an almost effete old pope. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Through Beaumarchais, the Tiers État was at last finding a voice and rising to self-consciousness; it was rising also to a consciousness of the effete condition of all the upper strata of society. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Geoffrey, then at the brigand age, looked at this custom as the mannerism of an effete civilization. Life's Minor Collisions 2011-11-03T02:00:17.547Z "We are effete, and we deserve to die out root and branch." The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z We see the effete races infused with the fresh blood; the vigorous juices of the Scandinavians march forward with unparalleled pace to the triumphs of reason and philosophy. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z It has been usual to include all the Eastern Romans of all the centuries between Constantine I. and Constantine XIV. in one sweeping condemnation, as cowardly, corrupt, and effete. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z Some regarded the ancient religions as effete; some denied that Christianity touched them at more than one or two points; some treated them simply as preparations for the crowning faith of Christ. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Plainly, Mr. Christie does not come across as either an effete intellectual or an overbred aristocrat. City Room: The Day: Chris Christie's Regional Handicap 2011-10-06T12:31:40Z I looked into Pullman patriarchal tyranny and into Carnegie despotism, and recalled the more humane, more democratic, attitude of masters to men in the effete monarchies abroad. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Even our public schools, that favorite emblem of our omniscience, have been declared by authority to merit interest but by no means grovelling admiration on the part of the effete peoples of Europe. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z “Is it, in its strange mixture of the barbaric and the effete, a frequent type?” asked Mrs. Church with all the force of her noble appetite for knowledge. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z These were but the evidences of an effete civilisation. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Nietzsche looked forward to the human race emerging from an effete culture, burdened and clogged by tradition, and re-establishing itself on a basis that is in harmony with man’s primitive instincts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Pestalozzi performed a similar service to popular education by his attempts to reform effete systems. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z But Mitt Romney might strike everyone in America as an effete phony with no principles. GOP elites think Perry's unelectable, but GOP voters disagree 2011-09-12T17:20:00Z The Greek derided it—but it has seen his philosophy effete and his Acropolis in ruins. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour 2011-09-03T02:00:17.117Z And, finally, if after their appeal to force they succumb, they are regarded as effete idiots. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z They were not an effete nation like the Romanized Spaniards; but a people full of life and martial energy. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z She sang with a presentable contralto, a passable baritone, an effete basso, and an almost despicable tenor. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z I don’t think my verses will wash, They’re somewhat effete and inane— I think that a Ballade is bosh! Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.103Z Does he imagine that at the advance of effete southerners, we retreat to our outside lavatories with ripped-up copies of the News of the Screws. Manchester still ahead of the game ? despite sniping from the south 2011-08-06T23:04:11Z And remember, I spent two years in the effete East.” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z This is food heaven to a jaded, effete food writer like me. BBQ's Best Secret Is Out: Fame Comes to Rodney Scott 2011-07-27T05:20:00Z Because of the lack of physical threat they pose they have been written off as essentially effete and their size deceives expectations. Praveen Kumar's rare style of swing bowling is as bold as it is old 2011-07-26T22:00:09Z "Does he imagine that at the advance of effete southerners, we retreat to our outside lavatories with ripped-up copies of the News of the Screws?," he wrote in the Radio Times. Clarkson 'deluded' over Salford 2011-07-19T08:41:40Z When, in the direst circumstances of personal economic crisis, he saved BSkyB from ruinous collapse, he achieved something that the effete panjandrums of British broadcasting could only gasp over. News Corp saga is gripping: let's soak up the family drama 2011-07-16T23:07:17Z We’ll freight in our supplies with mules and communicate with the more effete centers of civilization by stagecoach for some time to come I reckon. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z A hotel guest asking for such a thing would have been pointed out to bystanders as a curiosity of effete dandyism. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Nothing, as a rule, is more depressing to the poor creatures of an effete civilisation than an early morning start. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z We walk about our Zion and go round about her and tell the towers thereof, and they speak to us of a living faith, not of an effete ecclesiasticism or of mere arch�ological interest. York Minster 2011-06-30T02:00:34.813Z We go on with things endlessly—just our sickening, effete pride! Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z He had pinned his faith to the masses, dismissing the classes as effete and lapped in luxury and indifference. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The 'red-blooded' who formerly looked at the Young Men's Christian Association as rather effeminate and effete must, in view of what it has done in Europe, forever close their lips. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Meanwhile, I undergo much humiliation; whilst ladies make with comfort and ease delightful ascents to neighbouring peaks, I humbly pant up an anthill or two, resting at every third yard—puffy, helpless, effete. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z At sight of the trim figure at the wicket, he too became suddenly happy, and it looked as if the effete East was losing two of its merriest citizens. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Texas was rather more bizarre and unconventional, more daring than his companions from the "effete East," and his detective efforts were apt to be more interesting for that reason. On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration 2011-05-15T02:00:09.877Z I admit that there are more effete cities than Chicago. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Who, breathing the free, fresh air of the pampas, or bounding over them on the back of a half-wild horse, would care to remember the petty joys and sorrows of an effete and corrupt civilisation? The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z What I haven’t got is friends—not one among all these millions upon millions of effete folks. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z Liberty was infectious: They would bring new life to the effete Old World and encourage political progress there. What they really mean by "American exceptionalism" 2011-04-08T12:30:00Z This year the effete, stumbling, bumbling Mariners will open their season on April Fools' Day. What sports readers are saying 2011-03-26T22:55:04Z I might just as well have been in an effete monarchy trying to approach the throne on my hands and knees. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The one would wait upon Providence—only help it a little, like Mr. Greeley—and permit our poor old effete world to pass out of existence by gentle euthanasia. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z I couldn't help thinking how funny it was that the Normans, who were regarded as barbarians by the French, were looked upon as tremendously effete by the English. Seeing France with Uncle John 2011-02-26T03:00:47.827Z Wayne Barrett is not what you think, certainly nothing like an effete snob, as seen in the conservative caricature of the liberal news media. The (Ex) of the Village 2011-02-25T19:24:01Z And a buzz went through the room as men repeated this mot, and people asked each other, "Is this the man we are calling on to retire as worn-out, effete, and exhausted?" Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z He hated and despised the voluptuousness, the imbecility, and the tyranny of the effete monarchy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Moreover, Harold had before his eye as a precedent the displacement of the effete Carolingian line in France, by the new house of Robert the Strong and Hugh Capet, seventy years before. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z "We wrestle just to prove that Britain is not the poor old effete thing the Herr Doctor thinks she is." The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z Unfortunately, he decided at once that I belonged to the effete aristocracy—why I don't know—and with his keen manner let me know it. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z One staffer given his marching orders is a senior trader played by Stanley Tucci, an actor with a facility for toggling from effete to macho who displays a dash of both here. Margin Call is a fine crash movie, but no banker 2011-01-25T12:06:31Z I remembered him extremely well as one of those representatives of the people with whom a paternal Government had leavened the effete ranks of the Irish magistracy. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z He is young and strong; he is one of our sturdy race—a Iugo Slav, not a Greek, or an effete Turk eaten away by vice and debauchery. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Yet there were many old planters, partisans of an effete party,—once Democratic in principle,—who clung to slavery with a tenacity like that of barnacles to a worm-eaten hulk. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Of course, as a production man, it is my duty to regard inspectors as effete. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z The effete Portuguese race has been ingrafted upon a stupid, stolid, Indian stock, in that country. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The Republicans out of power inveighed against standing armies as a monstrosity, a relic of effete Monarchical tyranny. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z As I have said elsewhere, if I were forced to choose between Materialism and Idealism, I should elect for the latter; and I certainly would have nothing to do with the effete mythology of Spiritualism. Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions 2010-12-20T17:12:31.233Z There he sat, sick with alarms, cowardly, spiritless, effete. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z They looked for the fresh new child; it is born with wrinkles and dreadfully like his grandmother, only looking older and more effete. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Colleagues at The Observer remembered her as brassy and vulgar — not an easy fit with the salmon-colored broadsheet’s effete ethos. Outraged, and Outrageous 2010-10-09T22:05:00Z Does he not remember being demonized as an effete, wine-swilling, French-speaking, surfer boy-man who hunts in clean clothes and resides in a mansion? John Kerry is right: Americans are ignorant 2010-09-28T12:30:00Z It is that feeling of being lulled to sleep by gruff amiable Australian men abrasively joshing some flustered and suddenly effete domestic radio export. Talk about the Ashes: you know you want to 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z Top, if it doesn’t sound too effete, with sliced grilled pear. The Minimalist: 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling 2010-06-30T04:00:00Z As a result, early male food personalities were generally gay, from the effete Gourmet columnist Lucius Beebe to the earthy but flamboyant James Beard himself. Dude Food Extremes: Male Chef Guy Fieri, Cook to Bang 2010-05-11T17:00:00Z It is to paint Kagan, her president, and their party under the confirmation-battle klieg lights as effete liberal elitists, to fire up the conservative base, and to win over independents. Kagan to Be Attacked From Left and Right 2010-05-10T15:57:00Z Politically, I'm basically your typical effete coastal liberal elitist. Introducing Alex Pareene 2010-04-28T14:25:00Z "I'm sick of this effete GOP nothing sandwich," he adds, growing more animated. Citizen Breitbart: The Right's New Web Impresario 2010-03-29T17:40:00Z Circumstances change, but not the basic urge, which these days means decrying what he sees as the cultural blindness and effete concerns of Obama and his minions. 2010-02-12T21:33:00Z The Uses of the Perspiration.—Besides liberating from the blood this large amount of water, with the effete matter it contains, the perspiration serves to regulate the temperature of the body. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers Under his rule internal dissensions were quelled, effete customs were abolished, new and necessary laws were introduced, architecture was encouraged, trade was fostered, and a recognised currency was adopted. Cathedral Cities of England The lower the Merovingians sank, the higher rose the sons of Pipin, from the banks of the Meuse, until they equalled and outgrew the effete race. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII Seneca is far more modern and advanced than even the greatest of the Neo-Platonic school, just because he saw that the old theology was hopelessly effete. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius His energy, and his apparent disdain for the effete civilization which he protected, but which did not affect his character, make his personality one of the most interesting of the 4th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" In the former case it is pure and fit for the support of the tissues; in the latter, it is impure and charged with effete materials. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers It keeps up in the system that centrifugal tendency of the circulation of which I have already spoken, and which is so favorable for the rejection of all effete and irritating matters. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician If these defunct soldier-monks did not leave ghosts behind them, the power of such spirits after death must be effete. The Story of Malta But now our sun hath waned, weak and effete, And moons are ever full. The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches Since in very many the influence is so effete that it can hardly be perceived, those weak stones are surpassed by prepared pieces of clay. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Old and effete cells are often empty of solid matter, containing only water with whatever may be dissolved in it, or air, according to the time and circumstances. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The various emunctories or outlets of the body should, undoubtedly, be kept open and free, so that every portion of worn-out or effete matter may be effectually got rid of. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician George had no doubt that he was the man, for those were the days just before hazing was frowned out of existence by an effete conservatism. The Guarded Heights It was the way he took of letting the parish know that culture could have no dealings with effete superstitions. The Great Discovery One which performs its function more feebly indicates a defect and an effete nature. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Are they the last relics of a once gifted class,—worn out, effete, and exhausted,—degenerated like modern Greeks from those who once shook the Parthenon? The Fortunes Of Glencore We should do scant justice to the blameless character, simple dignity, and moral purity of the primitive Christians, if we forgot the thoroughly effete and corrupt society by which they were surrounded. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs I then got some expensive eggs from the effete east. Cordwood With the nineteenth century, he believed that the long novel would pass out of existence; three-quarters of what was written was unnecessary, evolved simply out of obedience to effete formulas and standards. Lafcadio Hearn Loring was rather subdued by the "highbrows," though he carried it off in private to her with an air of indulgent toleration for the "fool ceremoniousness" of an "effete" civilisation. Shadows of Flames A Novel We welcome in him a painter who, in his treatment of a religious subject, breaks with the traditions of an effete school. Fragments of an Autobiography I tell you the degenerate Romans of to-day are an effete and worn out race. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs The Revolution, according to him, meant the sweeping away of effete beliefs and institutions, but implied also the necessity of a reconstructive process. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Later on, when the proportion is adjusted and he sees the possibilities of his land, he will produce things that will make the effete East stare. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The nobility which claims to rest upon hereditary honor is effete; it is incontestably a dying institution. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Our best workers have grown jaded and effete, and our reputation is suffering. Young Wallingford Manifestly some "effete monarchy" in the most degraded stage of its decadence. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. In health there is constantly taking place an exhalation of watery vapour from the skin, by which not only are many of the effete products of nutrition eliminated, but the body is kept cool. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" In this way he would be behaving with the futile orthodoxy required by our effete social system, and yet give the opportunity necessary to the female for the successful pursuit of the male. The New Warden The lace work of 15th century Gothic is not a lie, it is an effete form. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions Oh, a market is merely one of those effete contrivances of civilisation. Lord Stranleigh Abroad Although this primitive superstition is almost effete among civilized nations, yet it still retains an important place in the religious beliefs of savage and uncivilized communities. Folk-lore of Shakespeare The more effete Earth preparations didn't rouse the slightest enthusiasm, but the bivalve found its place in the hearts and stomachs of the natives. To Choke an Ocean So now effete parties are kept alive for partisan or patriotic ends by those who seem not to have realized that we are living in a new America. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. In that effete land of worrying necessities the shrine of beauty, when allied with reputed wealth, has many devotees; the Carters were known to be "cattle kings." The Song of the Wolf Now it claims ten thousand, has bricked streets that used to be cow trails, electric lights, a street-car service, and all the comforts and culture of an ‘effete East.’ Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure Nobody knew exactly how she felt about it, for one thing must be said for the people of those effete old civilizations: their breeding carries them through any crisis without the turn of a hair. Ancestors A Novel In worms especially, the skin seems to excrete many effete substances, pigments included. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" We effete aristocrats can do with a strain of new blood occasionally, eh, what?” Cynthia's Chauffeur There was general laughter at her presumptuous and effete pose and phrase. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time As a fighting force the Manchu garrisons both in the capital and in the provinces had long become quite effete. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" E'en the Germans, once the best, Even Tuiskion's sons, Our dear cousins primitive, Even they have grown effete. Atta Troll The rest, perhaps, will be found somewhat artificial and effete. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Such a state of moral chaos there has constantly been when an old effete mode of thought required to be destroyed. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I The farther Western civilisation travels from that effete Eastern ideal, the greater will be the hope for human progress in physical, mental and moral well-being. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast To him I was, possibly, a mere annoyance, an impertinent interlude in his entrancing studies of his mouldy mummies, indecorously calling his attention to the existence of a modern effete civilization. Aliens For the greatness of Germany is not to be explained by her unwieldy army, her red-tape bureaucracy, her impotent Reichstag, her effete Churches. German Problems and Personalities But in France the very acts that result from weakness and despair have been greeted with enthusiasm by the anarchists and the effete intellectuals as the beginning of new and improved revolutionary methods. Violence and the Labor Movement The cleanliness of the stable and yard is much advanced as the effete matters, which would otherwise litter them, are carefully removed to the compost. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools Since his association with Richard Strauss has weaned Hofmannsthal from the somewhat effete estheticism and pessimism of his youth, it is a matter of interesting conjecture what further effect it may have upon his development. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature And the fact was that she made a goddess and an only child of the effete and tearful lady; and even as she waited at table her hands would sometimes itch for my lord’s ears. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston Fresh blood adds new energy to effete stocks. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe We were to lay aside finally all the effete uses of sophisticated life. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Relate, my Muse, the fame of him Whose calling and peculiar mission It was to wage with courage grim A battle ’gainst effete Tradition! The Casual Ward academic and other oddments Once very brilliant, probably never very efficient, he is now worn out and effete. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III The religion of Constantine was young and progressive; that of Julian was effete. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion To-day you see them bouncing, buxom, red as cherries, and round as apples; to-morrow they exhibit themselves effete as dead weeds, blanched and broken down. Shirley I rejoice that I belong to an effete country; and that I sit at table with almost the last representatives of the culture, the learning and the ideals of centuries of civilization. A Modern Symposium Is not the Church being rejected by the nations of Europe because of our intolerance, our oppression, our stubborn clinging to broken idols and effete forms of faith? Carmen Ariza Sweating, in addition to regulating heat, is also an active agent in removing effete material from the blood; therefore this secretion can not be checked without danger. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle I, the sceptic, the blasphemer, the scoffer at all things sacred, who had laughed at the legends and dogmas of Christianism as though they were incredible and effete as the myths of Olympus! Arrows of Freethought The oratory of Danton, like that of Marat, only excited the people to dissatisfaction; they struck down effete institutions, but they were not the men to inaugurate a new society. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Let them not idly hark back, misled by effete traditions, to the old European dream of the kingdom of heaven. A Modern Symposium But I procrastinated; I vacillated; I 353 still clung to effete beliefs and forms of thought which I knew were bound to manifest in unhappiness later. Carmen Ariza ‘The p. 138Radical party is evidently effete,’ she writes to M. Victor Cousin; the probable ‘leader of the Tory party’ is Mr. Gladstone. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies Let no German ever again say that she is effete. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone The form of Islam seen in the large centres of population in the Hausa States is that of a virile, aggressive force, in no sense effete or corrupted by the surrounding paganism. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It All orders become worn out in time, and effete. Marion Fay He treated our prejudices and our effete institutions as though they were something external to us, which had come out of nowhere and could be flung into the void from whence they came. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle The truth is, as Wellhausen has admirably shown,1 that the working religion of the country had become before the period of Islam entirely effete. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Important as are the commercial aspects of the place, it is not these which interest and arrest the attention of the stranger, but rather what is old, quaint, and perhaps more or less effete. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Tell the effete and feeble rulers and princes, 'Awake from your deep slumber. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It Law and government must keep pace with the progress of humanity, else the nation itself becomes effete, superannuated, deteriorated. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy No mistaking you for anything but what you are—the sickly product of an effete civilisation. Audrey Craven It was the strength of a simple, honest mind as yet unfouled by the grosser evils of an effete civilization. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills It's before Wolfville gets that effete it mixes drinks, an' any one who knows 81 water from whiskey can 'tend bar. Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories Emotion never sells where it can give: that is an old-fashioned, effete benevolence. Dr. Sevier From the very correct gardenia in his buttonhole to the very immaculate spats upon his feet, he was a careful prototype of the Piccadilly exquisite––a little faded, perhaps, slightly effete, but perfect in detail. The Crevice Correy was my first officer, a square-jawed fighting man if one ever breathed, a man of action, such as these effete times do not produce. Priestess of the Flame They were not in danger of taking the moral corruption of an effete civilisation for the Christian faith. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I "Of course, you're liberal minded and free from effete prejudice, but I hardly fancied the wives of your best citizens would care to meet such ladies." Thurston of Orchard Valley But we observe that this miserable botch of a monument is to the ruins of the Acropolis, what this modern absolutism, this effete Turkey is to the magnificent tyrannies of yore. The Book of Khalid The Gothic conquest of Romanized Spain had converted an effete civilization into a strong semi-barbarism. A Short History of Spain The old Adam and his deeds needed stern repression after the wild iniquities of the effete society of imperial Rome. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland These legislators and administrators of laws claim to be superior to the effete errors of the age. Pius IX. And His Time Saints—so we are told—have been the cruellest persecutors; and kings, acting from purely selfish ambition, have consolidated nations or crushed effete and mischievous institutions. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Young Japan is a “hustler,” to use a modern word, and it has no time and mayhap not much inclination for what it perhaps regards as somewhat effete matter. The Empire of the East They try not to be pharisaical about the narrowness of the East, but they achieve a sincere scorn for the hidebound conventions of an effete society. Introduction to the Science of Sociology So soon as we are rid of the desire of one section of society to enslave another, the dogmas of an effete creed will lose their interest. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals This is said as Fenwick opens negotiations rather mechanically with the fresh coffee Mrs. Lobjoit has produced, and as that lady constructs for removal a conglomerate of plates and effete eggs. Somehow Good It has at least not been discarded as effete. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition It is this that causes effete dynasties and nations to disappear from the face of the world, and their places to be supplied by those full of life and energy. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Have you forgotten that the finest warship your country ever built, with six hundred of her devoted citizens, was sent to the bottom by the treachery of one of this effete race? The Double Four Moors, like every effete people, are unable to grow a great quantity of hair on their faces. In the Tail of the Peacock It lives not in the effete forms and childish ceremonies of the fashionable drawing-room—it has no illustration in the tinsel trappings and gaudy puerilities of a Court. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Their appearance, in short, suggests—what some notable facts in their history will presently be shown to confirm—that they are bodies already effete, and verging towards dissolution. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Then managers and vocal stars—and emperors effete Shall fling their crowns, their money bags, their persons, at my feet. Wild Animals at Home And what a huge monument is this château of Chambord to the effete monarchy of France, built up from the life-blood and toil of thousands! In Château Land Why, by simply producing the old effete notion of the liberty of the will, as consisting in freedom from co-action; as if it had never been, and never could be, called in question. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Greek Philosophy.—The essential pedantic stupidity of Aristotle’s logic, and its power to belittle and benumb the intelligence of its reverential students has been shown in every college where this effete study is kept up. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 She exists today not an effete institution, but in all the integrity and fulness of life, with her organism unimpaired, more united, more compact and more vigorous than ever she was before. The Faith of Our Fathers Have we thrown overboard the effete institutions of Europe, only to have them straightway introduced among us again, after this plausible and surreptitious fashion? The Critical Period of American History Those ancient seats of learning were not denounced as fossilised, effete, and corrupt. Appearances Being Notes of Travel He did not mind very much now ... he saw his aunt and uncle as two people suddenly grown effete, purposeless, incapable. The Wooden Horse I have long since reviewed this effete philosophy of an ignorant age, and shown its true character, but my work has never been offered to a bookseller. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 Had they been among us, and had we been allowed to use our wisdom without interference from effete old age, where would they have been? The Fixed Period “And we do have some things so much better in America!” protested Baby Van Rensselaer, as yet uncorrupted by any worship of the effete monarchies of despotic Europe. Humorous Ghost Stories Any brainless little fop, any effete dandy, is sure of a welcome, provided he is known to certain circles and can help her to scramble into a little more vogue. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) An American who should arrive in Pesth fancying that he was about to see a specimen of the dilapidated towns of "effete and decaying Europe" would find himself vastly mistaken. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 "Well, old man," I said as the effete steed began laboriously to get in motion, "how is your valuable health?" A Pessimist In Theory and Practice But for whose good are the old and effete to be maintained amid all these troubles and miseries? The Fixed Period Some of the carbon and effete nitrogenous matter is kept back. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say As an example of this depressing condition, we may mention Turkey and several of the effete States of South America. The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. As soon as the system becomes saturated with bacteria and effete matter, auto-intoxication results, in which condition there is but little or no store of vitality for resistance, reaction and recuperation. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis Let him espouse this cause, and he will find it more practical by far than riding down the ghosts of an effete theology. Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4 The old and effete should go, in order that the strong and manlike might rise in their places and do the work of the world with the wealth of the world at their command. The Fixed Period According to the above it appears that Huxley regarded the evolution of species, as advocated by Darwin, as identical with the old, effete idea that circumstances have determined everything. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Of course it failed; here I go pawing up the earth, milking out the surplus capital of the effete East, and building up this town—and what happens? In Our Town The normal peristaltic action of the intestines propels the nutritive as well as the effete material through the canal at a rate that allows of both proper absorption and timely elimination. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis They stood now, rich and poor, effete and plebeian, white Phœnician and dark Kabyle, gazing with breathless interest at the spectacle before them. The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago France is an exceedingly wealthy, and, what is more, a "self-contained" nation; and this fact should not be forgotten by the critics of what they like to call effete Europe. The Automobilist Abroad So far as old, effete, erroneous opinions and faiths are concerned, with the old instruments of torture belonging to the shadows of the dark ages, we should say, disturb not the dead. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Cramped by the irritating conventionalities of an effete civilisation, Colonel Balderson comes among us for that larger freedom and wider horizon which his growing powers demand. In Our Town They call us rough, and we try to get even by terming them effete. The Prairie Mother Dried effete masses of exudation; as, for example, the crusts of impetigo, of eczema, and of the pustular and ulcerating syphilodermata. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine This is the most effete camping party I ever saw,” he declared, looking around their cosy little cabin. The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail He had been returned several times by his constituents, and his life had been spent in localities more allied to effete civilization than was Barnesville. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim His dislike of the effete conventionalism of the literary creed blended with his aversion to the political rule of the time. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The superstitions of Europe, the old-fashioned titles of effete aristocracies, are walls more easily surmounted than the golden barricades of omnipotent corporations. American Sketches 1908 You good people of the effete and frozen East are still looking for the commercial nut. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 It came like the dawn of a new spring to nations "effete with the drunkenness of crime." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 In most cases the very last persons to realize the unwelcome truth are those who hold the doctrines that are becoming effete. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis The correspondence between the amount of the motive power of an animal, and the quantity of effete nitrogen excreted from the body, is limited to laboring men and to the lower animals. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock In his abstraction he drew a neat part in his hair before perceiving the faux pas, he hurriedly obliterated the effete mark. The Varmint Besides, the Freshman class was a brand-new republic and didn't need the advice of such an effete monarchy as the Senior class. At Good Old Siwash After supper, he and Natalie, sitting in the rigid little parlour upstairs, talked it over; while Mademoiselle Trudeau, aged fifteen, sought to entertain them by rendering effete popular songs on the famous piano. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Think of what the younger and more effete generation of mules is missing! The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 We have made a great advance on that unsatisfactory and effete style. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. This hurrying blood current not only carries nutriment to these organs, but carries away their accumulations of effete material to the excretory glands. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male At length the Temple of Jerusalem is rooted up by the armies of Titus, and the effete schools of Athens are stifled by the edict of Justinian. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin I gathered, more from her tone than from her actual words that only an effete, devitalised creature would call on me. Gossamer 1915 It was not advisable that the healthy sons of our democracy should associate with those effete and tainted aristocrats. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 But it had long since become effete, and all power had passed into the hands of the great vassals. The Sayings Of Confucius Mankind deteriorates," he said, "Grows weak and incomplete; And each new generation seems Yet more effete. The Book of Humorous Verse She scorned the suggestion that a bath-room be added; an effete idea. The Heart of Arethusa They are in a small hotel off Fifth Avenue, half way between the streets which boast of numbers higher than fifty, and those others which follow the effete European customs of having names. Gossamer 1915 They also follow on weakening diseases, notably strangles, in which irritants are retained in the system from overproduction of poisons and effete matter during fever, and imperfect elimination. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse In fine, it will become old and effete, no less truly than the individual. Natural Law in the Spiritual World When I was a year old, Emporia became too effete for my parents, and they moved to El Dorado, Kansas. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day She had always in fact the feeling when with Kitty that through her she suffered to live and patted on the back the whole ignoble, effete race of domestic women. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 The chieftainship here was plainly not the effete and decaying institution it is in many places on the Yukon. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska It is very beautiful, with the delicate beauty of excessive culture and effete luxury. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Only look at the theological quiddities of effete scholasticism. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Our ways are those culled from a civilization of thousands of years; theirs from one just beginning; yet they have the temerity to speak of China as effete and behind the times. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Hence they are a remarkably indolent and effete community, and on landing from a ship there is seldom a porter to be seen to carry oneʼs luggage. The Philippine Islands A party of effete Britishers are staying at the Lodge. The Highgrader There was a violent collision of peoples, manners, sentiments, usages; a subversion of the luxurious, intelligent, refined, and effete civilization; a rough infusion of barbaric vigor and barbaric ignorance. The Chief End of Man The bear, with the politeness which appeared to cling to all classes of society in this effetely civilized West, rose up and sat on his haunches, facing his visitor. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book This was what we were coming to after having emancipated ourselves from the trammels of a dead or effete superstition! Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile But a Whig Government had now been for some time in power, and an effete colonial policy could not be permitted to be maintained to the detriment of colonial loyalty. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion But when a succession of blows is rained on this effete and bloated specimen, the shocks themselves create nervous channels and arouse anew the deteriorated nature. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches You want these people; without them you will sink lower and lower into that effete degeneracy into which years of licentiousness have sunk you. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General "It is most refreshing," he said, "to have the vocabulary of the effete West enlivened with these breezy expressions from the growing East." Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book If religion can be regarded as archaic science enriched with the belief in supernatural control, the myth can be regarded as effete religion which has been superseded by the growth of a loftier ethical purpose. The Evolution of the Dragon Who should be assured against coarse usage if a man of his really elegant, perhaps in fact a trifle over-refined or "effete" appearance, his absolutely gentlemanlike type, couldn't be? The Finer Grain The littleness of the national character, its self-conceit, and its formality, are further instances of an effete civilization. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity It will be of inestimable service to yourselves to come into contact with these fresh, fine, generous natures, uncontaminated by the vices of an effete and worn-out civilisation. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Some of them were held to be not too effete to bear their burden even amid the stress and turmoil of the battlefield. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 The Hungarians and Malays are both known to be offshoots of this race, ennobled in the one case by a strain of Aryan blood, degraded in the other by mixture with the effete Lemurians. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria Or was it that those other girls beside her elbow were effete and colourless? The Brentons Let us hope that our Italy is not yet effete. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection It is admitted that it was righteous and beneficent in ages long past but with the new light and new conditions of the present it is effete, inapplicable and unjust. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View If we don't like it, we can get on the steamer and go abroad, where we may visit the effete monarchies and have a high old time. Comic History of the United States Whatever men may say about Christianity being effete, it will not be effete till the world has learnt and absorbed the teaching of Jesus Christ; and we are a good long way from that yet! Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. If your eyes were but opened, how gladly would you cast off the trammels of an effete society, and follow me to a land where a man can breathe freely. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War They, like their predecessors, are essentially trying to cast aside the literary 'survivals' of effete conditions, and succeed so far as they could find adequate expression for the great ideas of their time. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The Revision by the American Committee is the latest effort of scholarship to bring King James' Version up to date by eliminating effete terms and using words in their modern sense. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View This and other proceedings indicating unfriendliness to the King of Naples and a veiled sympathy with rebellion shocked Aberdeen as much as Lamartine's trenchant saying that the treaties of Vienna were effete. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 Counts, marquises, Churchmen—all have passed upon the scroll of those three hundred years; some left indelible marks for good, some for evil; whilst others, effete and useless, are buried in forgetfulness. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development In the square also was a triumphal arch, with an inscription to the effect that "the effete nations of Europe might tremble." Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 The Christians, like the Stoics and the Epicureans, would have lived their little day among the ignoble sects of an effete civilisation, and would have passed off and been heard of no more. Short Studies on Great Subjects Christian apologists for usury, who have not utterly discarded all laws given by Moses as effete and no longer binding, have tried hard to show that this clause authorizes the general taking of interest. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Such we find to be the case with those nations of the Old World which are still ruled by the effete systems of a feudal age. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. The Evangelicals despised the arts; effete and insincere Roman Catholicism had lost its hold on men. Art in England Notes and Studies In constipation, the rectum becomes distended with feces, effete matter which should have been promptly evacuated instead of being allowed to accumulate. Plain Facts for Old and Young I confess," said Adrian, with deliberation, "I freely confess that I am not an effete and blasé old thing, like—like one who shall be nameless. The Lady Paramount By force or cunning, by treaty or invasion, in one way or other, they got possession of the land at a time when, in the rest of Germany, almost every thing was effete and dead. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag The reader must remember that the so-called heroic style of Pope's period is now hopelessly effete. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Our law of libel is so horribly effete that the purest woman on our continent may to-morrow150 be vilely slandered, and yet obtain no adequate form of redress. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 The United States representative must not adopt the customs as to dress of the effete monarchies of the old world. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Their stage management is perfect, and the cumbrous methods of effete civilizations might well take note of the speed, thoroughness, and efficiency with which a change of government is effected. The Stowaway Girl A family that has become effete through luxury ought to sink down into common life, to make room for the uprising of fresh energies and faculties. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag By Wordsworth's time the Pope style was thus effete; what ought to be the dress of thought had become the rigid armour into which thought was forcibly compressed, and a revolt was inevitable. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series The pictorial arts fostered by the Western Church are fundamentally true, while the arts which the Eastern Church has patronized and petrified are essentially false and effete. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Is it true that Masonry is effete; that the acacia, withered, affords no shade; that Masonry no longer marches in the advance-guard of Truth? Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Skeptics of France consider that type effete, and unworthy of their support. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Why had this silly Cow and effete old Bull traveled so far? The Outcasts And as for the friendship and praise of the Emperor, who was the Emperor, anyway, but an effete product of an exhausted civilization? Captain Jinks, Hero Abdu’l-Bahá’s passing, by the demise of the effete Qájár dynasty in Persia, and the stupendous collapse of both the Sultanate and the Caliphate. The Promised Day Is Come And then it will most surely be seen that Masonry is not effete or impotent, nor degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Should these verses continue to be sung by the church, they would remain a strong tie holding the masses to the pitiable days of effete orthodoxy. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology "And unlike the corporations in the effete East, where a high collar marks the gentleman, we mix amusement with our lives?" Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters The dilemma was overcome by a young gentleman in the boat who had been suspected of a tendency to ape the fashions of the effete east. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World In this matter the Bolsheviki pride themselves on being far in advance of our effete western thought. The Red Conspiracy And so the effete State floats on down the puddled stream of Time, until the tempest or the tidal sea discovers that the worm has consumed its strength, and it crumbles into oblivion. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry He learned that the Wolffian philosophy was becoming effete, and so he raised the cry, loud and clear, against its longer existence. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Buffets and gyves from your effete Old monarchy dilapidate, Or freedom's laurels for thy brow? Poems Vol. IV To state the fact differently: no function can be performed without "the disintegration of a certain amount of tissue, whose components are then removed as effete by the excretory processes." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life He puts forth the theory that "all such diseases arise from poverty of the soil, either from want of manure when the soil is naturally poor, or rendered effete by over-cropping." Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop And we, the lazzaroni on the piazza, can not even see the sky for the mist of 'mottoes Italianate and Spanish terms' of an effete logic that has risen before it. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The drama, the lyric, the elegy, can never be effete so long as men have hearts and feel with them. Platform Monologues This country is all right for those who were born to it—purple hills and purling brooks and silence brooding over all!—but it's too intense for your effete comrade. Then I'll Come Back to You The united Norman colony elected twelve chiefs or counts of equal authority; and henceforth they thought only of consolidating their ascendency over the effete races which had hitherto pretended to employ their arms. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The cause of stump foot cannot, therefore, be found in the poverty of the soil, either from want of manure or its having been rendered effete from over cropping. Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop And if more pleasing, why cling to the effete and cumbrous tyrannies of a soulless classicism? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 It has got rid of the effete rubbish of genders; simplified immensely its declensions and conjugations; thrown overboard most of the nonsensical ballast we know as grammar. Post-Prandial Philosophy National spirit seemed worn out; Court intrigue and political disaster the order of the day; the Church and Cortés alike effete and useful only against themselves. Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. Shalt thou the talk of Gods repeat, Debasing by thy strains effete Such lofty mysteries? Phineas Redux First, there is the nutritive system, composed of stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, glands, and vessels, by which food is elaborated, effete matter removed, the blood manufactured, and the whole organization nourished. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls I am told indeed, occasionally, that the pulpit is effete, that its place has been filled by the press and lecture platform, that there is no further use for it. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z We know perfectly well that in our seats of higher-learning the Church is looked upon as an effete Institution, as something of the past that has kept a certain air of respectability. Catholic Problems in Western Canada There was little hope in an effete polytheism, still less in a corrupt and desponding society. The Arian Controversy It would be well for the world if, instead of cramming the brains of children with effete ideas and superstitions, the messages of these wise ones could be listened to and heeded. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul The Christians, like the stoics and the epicureans, would have lived their little day among the ignoble sects of an effete civilization, and would have passed off and been heard of no more. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc They come here from the effete monarchies of the old world, rave about the horrors of tyrannous governments, and make no distinction between them and the blessings of a free and independent government. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z But these significant works and personalities can never grow effete. Among Famous Books Each decadence of effete ideas carries with it an old world, and gives its name to a new order of civilisation. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution The cavity is filled with effete and decomposing epidermis, which has a most offensive odour. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. The theory of hearts entering into connubial contracts, is as effete as Stahl's Phlogiston! Infelice There is no doubt of their power to promote evacuations of effete accumulations from the kidneys, skin and bowels. Saratoga and How to See It It must be confessed that Miss Spencer flirted outrageously, and enjoyed life as she never had done in the effete East. Bob Hampton of Placer There is an endeavour to show that even in their original function, they are not quite effete. Practical Essays Then stays, an efficient substitute for the effete feminine backbone. Certain Personal Matters Sometimes the urine will be deficient in solids and liquids, so that the effete and poisonous material are retained in the blood, which produce headache. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada America, said his lordship, sought her great men, not from among the effete walks of the haristocracy, from the more legitimate hemisphere—the common walks of life. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth With most men Paul was diffident and prone to silence, but something in his effete nature gave him confidence with women. Destiny My first strong impression, then, is not that Europe is "effete"—that isn't it. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II Had he looked after his estates there instead of joining the effete party of the Derbyites he might have done well. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II No wonder that the effete empires of Rome and Persia recoiled and quivered at the shock, and that province after province quickly fell under the sway of Islam. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans That has gone into the limbo of effete superstition. The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent "But," it may be said, "the old heathenism was worn out and effete; no one thought it worth his while to stand up in its defence." The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic An effete administration, like that of the Sikhs, if thus roughly faced, as often as not let the matter rest. The Story of the Guides Nature has provided a wonderful system of drains for carrying away the effete matter of the body. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Christianity appears to some men to be effete and worn out. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series They are effete for us unless we add and mingle freely the juice of our own natural genius. On The Art of Reading The structure, the composition, is feeble, incongruous, inadequate, effete. A Study of Shakespeare In technique and even in thought there was little to choose between many so-called Georgians and the most effete and reactionary Victorians. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11 The removal of excreta from houses.—The chief object of a perfect system of house drainage is the immediate and complete removal from the house of all foul and effete matter directly it is produced. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 And to mourn over old superstitions and effete creeds, is just as unwise as is the grief of the mother mourning over the form which was once her child. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series It is not a doctrine of an effete theology but a continuous human experience. The Ascent of the Soul At present the Academy, besides doing this important work, occasionally holds public sessions; but it is an effete institution, that has little more than an archæological interest. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Thus gloriously does our new civilization reclaim the errors of the past, building upon ancient ruins the enlightened institutions of to-day, and grafting fresh vigor upon effete races and nationalities. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. The "effete" and "degenerate" nation has roused herself indeed! The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend Nothing very strange or out-of-the-way, she thought, could be connected with such a modern car; it presented every symptom of effete civilization. The Palace of Darkened Windows Besides, I've never told Isabel herself yet, and I'm not the American to give in to the effete and decaying custom of asking a girl's poppa, or momma if it's a case of widow, first. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sometimes you hear people saying, 'Christianity is effete. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII It is a cycle of changes, the type and show of which are the circulation, constantly removing effete particles and building up new, and therein giving its hue to the flesh. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Uncivilized sailors, and brainless and heartless speculators, have sown the rankest seeds of an effete Caucasian civilization in the hearts of the unsuspecting Africans. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens She laughed merrily, as if the idea of such an effete luxury as a house were amusing. Judith of the Plains But by the middle of the seventeenth century the renaissance schools of poetry had become effete in all European countries. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Threadbare truth is not effete until it is obeyed, and when we try to obey it, it ceases to be commonplace. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Many chemical substances can be combined with water to cleanse these effete productions from the skin. Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 The Negroes suffered from the touch of the moral contagion of this effete matter driven out of European society. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens |
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