| 单词 | foppishness |
| 例句 | Somewhere outside this room is the real world, where finery and foppishness won’t save these characters from an uprising of the plebs. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z One delightful detail about William Wilde to emerge here is that, in contrast to Oscar’s foppishness, Sir William was notably disheveled and dirty, unkempt. Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z He modelled his foppishness on Lord Byron's, soon began promoting South American mining shares, lost his investors a fortune, and – to recoup his position – published his first novel at the age of 21. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z The club’s artistic director, James Pearson, my next pianist, turns out to be a broad-shouldered man with some Dickensian foppishness and a radically unleashed presence on the piano. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z “The foppishness of rock stars is like the peacock, where the male is the beautiful one, not the female. That became the forefront in rock ’n’ roll, encouraged by the gay managers.” The Gay Architects of Classic Rock 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The staggeringly good, utterly OTT Flamboyant, meanwhile, is a celebration of foppishness. Pop sensation Dorian Electra: 'I'm not a woman dressing as a man. It's more complex' 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z There is certainly a great vanity about them, but it may be generally said that foppishness should be avoided in this as in most other points. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z One of them, the son of the chief, was remarkable for the gaudiness and display of his dress, which from its showy appearance imparted to his character foppishness.... Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z The lowest order of vanity is foppishness, or the vanity of external advantages—the person, the toilet, superficial accomplishments. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z It manifested itself in more ways than one: in his strut, in the foppishness of his dress, in his elaborate affectation of an English accent. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z To put a point to this foppishness, a narrow silken ribbon, also pure white, depending from his lapel buttonhole, suggested an eye-glass in his pocket. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z If there be a little tinge of foppishness in his appearance, it is as slight as the scent which a superfine cigar has left on his clothes. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z I shall always wish to see you clothed decently and becoming your station; but I shall ever discountenance extravagance or foppishness in your dress. Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison 2010-12-20T17:12:10.847Z He was, however, under all his foppishness, a person of much intellect, which he showed both as an administrator in high political office and as an author. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 Whatever of foppishness there might be in his dress, was qualified by the dignified grace of his manner. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston Alex Ward, like most vigorous, manly boys of his type, had a fixed dislike for anything approaching foppishness, especially in other boys. The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity He was noted at Cambridge for his foppishness, and for wearing scented kid gloves. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy About the whole man there was an air somehow of full-bloomed foppishness gone to tassel—as though having been a dandy once, he was now merely neat and precise in his way of dress. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights We simply could not have endured his foppishness and dandyism, combined with a temper always serene, if we had not known that at heart he was a very good fellow. Adventures in Many Lands But I know it by the shape, and I thought that it was a silly bit of effeminate foppishness on the part of a man.” Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris He was a man of Hector Garret's age, but, even in his rough coat, with marked remains of youthful foppishness and pretension. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes His foppishness arose from an over-elegance of costume rather than any violence of color. The President A novel And her folly in permitting the fancy to rove towards Archibald Dorrimore, for whose foppishness she had a contempt, simply because he was rich! Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' He seems to belong to ancient history, he and his titanic foppishness and his smart clothes and his smart sayings. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Thus the morality of chivalry and war, the ideals of foppishness and honour, have been long maintained side by side with the maxims of the gospel, which they entirely contradict. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Though pronounced the best-dressed man in New York, he escaped all seeming of foppishness. Destiny Why should you wish to attract attention, and to create an effect by foppishness and all sorts of grimaces, or by curious and marvellous exhibitions of virtuoso-ship? Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances His indifference to duties, his airy foppishness, his conceit and self-sufficiency, had all served to create a feeling against him; and this had been intensified by his conduct since coming to Sibley. From the Ranks There can be no excuse for foppishness, but a shabby neat appearance may be due to a good reason. Certain Success My bump of vanity also grew apace, but an unmeasured hatred of all kinds of foppishness kept me on the safe side of moderation in my dress and behavior. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy He had inordinate vanity, and there are many stories about his foppishness. Youth and the Bright Medusa My sister was in ecstasies over his scarfpin, his studs, and the red silk handkerchief which he wore, I suppose from foppishness, sticking out of the breast pocket of his jacket. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories A little foppishness in a young man is good; it is human. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow A pest on my want of foppishness then. The Lost Continent Baumgarten improved on acquaintance in spite of his foppishness in dress. The Face and the Mask Mr. Alexander sometimes alluded in a pleasant way to his early foppishness, and told some amusing anecdotes, one of which I remember. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Even the fops in their foppishness were of a magnitude in harmony with their period. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 His clothing was not rich, but he wore it with that peculiar Cossack foppishness which consists in imitating the Chechen brave. The Cossacks As a matter of routine, he dressed well, but he abhorred the hint of foppishness. The Crown of Life He wore his auburn hair rather longer than was the mode just then, but in his apparel there was no more foppishness than is tolerable in a gentleman of his years. The Sea-Hawk They held that lace, perfumes, and jewellery on a man were marks of unmanly foppishness and vanity. Plays and Puritans He was dressed with so scrupulous a neatness as to convey, in spite of the dark colour of his garments, an impression almost of foppishness. The Trampling of the Lilies In dress he was supremely elegant, with the elegance of France, that in England would be accounted foppishness. The Lion's Skin This was a young man of good presence, save, perhaps, a too obtrusive foppishness, whom Monsieur de Lavedan presented to me as a distant kinsman of theirs, one Chevalier de Saint-Eustache. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Ceasing to be shag, it does not become beauty, but foppishness, effeminacy, Miss Nancy-ism. Gala-days I hated him, partly, I do believe, from a comparison of my own homely garb with his well-ordered foppishness. The Blithedale Romance Upon his dress he still bestowed the same unpretentious care that had always characterised it, which, in one of the most prominent patriots of the Mountain, amounted almost to foppishness. The Trampling of the Lilies They were dressed fashionably, but simply—with strict neatness and propriety, but without any mannerism or foppishness. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon |
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