| 单词 | epicene |
| 例句 | They looked very much alike, with heavy dark-blond hair and epicene faces as clear, as cheerful and grave, as a couple of Flemish angels. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There was something fluid, almost epicene, about his lean body, and it made her remember that he had told her he did yoga. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the center of another knot stood a lout in a black leather jacket who was teaching judo holds, to the great delight of his epicene students. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But except for the weirdly epicene Cob, the characters fail to transcend generic types, and their expressions tend to be blank. | 'Tales From Earthsea': An Animated Version of Ursula K. Le Guin?s Novels 2010-08-12T23:26:00Z There’s something of the Thin White Duke about Thomson — his author photo is rakish and epicene — but it’s more than that. ‘Barcelona Dreaming’ Offers a Nostalgic Trip to Pre-Crisis Europe 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z From a persnickety, epicene bachelor, Warwick evolves into a madman running wild in his own home, and from there into a diabolical sociopath. | 'The Perfect Host': A Welcome to His World Is Accepted at Your Peril 2011-06-30T22:13:04Z Say the word "English", and on minces a monster of effeteness with an epicene flunky. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z McCabe's Mr Puff, a volcano of epicene energy, looks memorably appalled to see chunks of his play sacrificed by the actors. The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic 2010-07-11T20:30:00Z In “Los Angeles Plays Itself,” still the best documentary ever made about the city and its architecture, director Thom Andersen wonders why “modernist architecture connotes epicene villainy” in so many movies. The NRA puts architecture, and L.A., in the crosshairs 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z His name is Strat, and he is played with beguiling epicene virility and lungs of steel by the willowy Andrew Polec. Retrogressing in London With Meat Loaf and Adrian Mole 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z He titled his recent memoir, Master of Ceremonies, borrowing the name from his best-known role, the menacing, epicene emcee of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret, a part he recreated for the Bob Fosse movie version. Joel Grey prepares for The Cherry Orchard: 'I'm about surprises' 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z She flips the script when a Democratic woman is running, portraying her as a steely battle-ax squaring off with a needy, epicene male. Donald Trump is an imperialist thug: Stop saying he’s less hawkish than Hillary Clinton! 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Overcome with the necessity of keeping pace with the artificial virtues he had created as his God, he was converting himself, to the best of his talents, into an outwardly epicene, eye-rolling symbol of purity. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z As Nobody is ever seen In Anybody's shape, Nobody must be epicene And very like an ape! The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z And first he sold the Times And helped to spread the doctrines of the Times Of ordered liberty and epicene Reforms of this or that. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z What sterile growths of sexless root Or epicene? Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z In English grammar there are no true epicene nouns, but the term is sometimes used instead of common gender. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Ten years before, in this same city, he had declared it to be "that obscene dogma, whose advocates are long-haired men and short-haired women, the unsexed of both sexes, human capons and epicenes." The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Another of these epicene sworders, diplomat, publicist, and captain of dragoons, reader for the Empress Elizabeth of Russia, in the suite of Marie-Antoinette at Versailles, preserved the secret of his sex until his death. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 But he was rather too much given to dally about voluptuous subjects with a sort of chuckling epicene triviality. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 To this abnormal condition the learned have applied the adjectives epicene, androgynous, hermaphrodite, arrenothele. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion In figurative and literary language, epicene is an adjective applied to persons having the characteristics of both sexes, and hence is occasionally used as a synonym of “effeminate.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z But a liberal-minded public grew more and more in favor of epicene colleges. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Yet every now and again, as if resentful of this inequality of wardrobe, an old hen pheasant will assume male plumage, and this epicene raiment indicates barrenness. Birds in the Calendar Why, look you, even in art, Most epicene of all pursuits in life, How man leaves woman always far behind! The Woman Who Dared As for the epicene bathing—masculine women and womanish males who partake of “sea-bathing by machinery”—separate machines, but that is all—let us ignore them. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" Devoid of the energy of a large and free imagination, art dwindles into an epicene odalisque, a faded minion of pleasure in a perfumed garden. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations At what figured symbol points that epicene child? Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions But this epicene state of enjoyment was not long to last. Rattlin the Reefer His consternation was overwhelming when a voice addressed him in Russian, a contralto voice of some indefinable timbre, the voice of a female, yet not without epicene intonations. Visionaries Judith's epicene thinness had become gaunt, but it was not that so much as the colouring of her face and the fact that she was wearing pince-nez that made her an absolutely different being. Secret Bread This I brought home, stuffed as full as my purse was empty; for the epicene old villain left it to me in all its plenitude—disdaining to touch it. The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three His beautiful epicene face, his boyish figure, his unearthly sensitiveness, haunt us as we read his lines. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions He was undoubtedly a great artist, winning extraordinary favour both in male and female characters, the last and perhaps the best of all the epicene stage-players of the past. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character All Pretty Fellows are also excluded to a man, as well as all Inamaratos, or persons of the epicene gender, who gaze at one another in the presence of ladies. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 The old original Sultana's attire, also, was, with the exception of a reticule and fan, conspicuously epicene; but, in a country where popular notions of sex are somewhat confused, this excited no surprise. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull From behind the headstone came the now ambiguous and epicene figure of the Wilbur twin, contorted to hold together the back of his waist. The Wrong Twin These were called, by the old grammarians, epicene nouns—that is, supercommon; but they are to be parsed each according to the gender of the pronoun which is put for it. The Grammar of English Grammars He called them neuters, epicenes, bloodless, sexless creatures. Herland He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing. Jude the Obscure The Cobbs' door, "H," stood open, an epicene medley of voices and laughter floating down the long neck of hallway on the syncopated whine of a ukulele. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Her mirror showed an epicene denizen of romance,—Rosalind or Bellario, a frail and lovely travesty of boyhood; but it is likely that the girl's heart showed stark terror. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Just who are those who enjoy the epicene on the stage? Bertram Cope's Year "Sexless, epicene, undeveloped neuters!" he went on bitterly. Herland Consummate scholars question the value of learning; priests contemn dogma; and women turn their backs upon man's ideal of perfect womanhood, and seek satisfaction in apocalyptic visions of some, as yet, unrealised epicene reality. Science & Education The remote and noisome canals were pathetic with empty old palaces peopled by herds of poor, that decorated the sculptured balconies with the tatters of epicene linen, and patched the lofty windows with obsolete hats. Venetian Life There was a lack of grit and stamina about him—something soft, both in manner and appearance; something dreamy, ambiguous, almost epicene. South Wind This seemed to him an odd way to look at things, and he boggled over a phrase about an "epicene lily." Huntingtower As a rule the epicene have soft voices and ingratiating manners, and are bold enough to make a direct appeal to the heart and emotions; they are considered the very cream of London society. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1 These epicenes are as curious and exceptional in character as in external conformation. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 The epicene aristocracies of other countries turn night into day in their social pleasures, and our noblesse sympathetically follows their example. April Hopes "What's the meaning of this; and what, may I ask, is the intention of this—this epicene attire?" Stalky & Co. "Half a dozen epicene young pagans who haven't even been to Algiers will tell you, first, that your notion is borrowed, and, secondly, that it isn't Art." The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition |
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