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1 But actually, this kind of dandified punditry has been the curse of British art for a long time.

2 No, not Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” movies, in which Robert Downey Jr. plays a slightly dandified take on the famous investigator.

3 The locals called him “Count No-Count” because of his dandified aloofness and lack of a steady job.

4 At a quarter to ten, neat, spruce, and dandified as ever, he made his way to the restaurant car, where a chorus of woe was going on.

5 Or, to be fair, her tuxedo worn with a floppy, dandified bow tie to the state dinner in Japan, accessorized with a Breck Girl blow out and fuchsia lipstick.

6 “And so this newfangled stuff, and these dandified people, are to push us, and such as us, from our stools!”

7 He is riding a beautiful pony, chestnut, with a rather dandified long tail and a bushy mane.

8 Here once again is the shape-shifting star, this time flamboyantly mustachioed and dandified by a cravat and velvet blazer with pocket square.

9 And dandified children are trying on wings, too – angel wings that attach with leather straps, just like the ones street kids were given to wear whenever Caravaggio needed models for his paintings of angels.

10 Titled “The Squire of Gothos” and broadcast in the show’s first season, the episode featured Mr. Campbell as a dandified alien obsessed with human history of the 18th century.

11 With his trademark white linen suits and two-tone shoes, Wolfe did later seem like a dandified figure from the cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

12 Used to be," answered Pen, with a dandified air, "is a vague phrase regarding a woman.

13 He doesn’t stay there and is soon strolling into the story a free man, dandified in a double-breasted blue suit, violet shirt and the short, pointy boots of mods if not rockers.

14 It was when he was driving his engine that the duke showed to his best advantage and told clearly that under the dandified exterior was a nerve of iron.

15 An arrow ends the dandified general’s megalomaniacal raving just as he’s about to shoot wounded cavalryman Dustin Hoffman in the head.

16 Francie saw practical black two-seaters drawn by a single high-stepping horse controlled by dandified young men in kid gloves with edges turned back to look like inverted cuffs.

17 No proper grand-tour rite of passage in 19th-century Europe was complete without a commissioned portrait of a dandified squire posing in a room with a view.

18 Curiously dandified in his late-Victorian costume, Mark Stone registered as an unusually well spoken and sophisticated Jack Point; he sang the role with brio, if not quite enough pathos.

19 He replaced his ragged trousers and cowboy hat with a dandified suit and a bow tie and a felt hat, his eyes peering out through distinguished round-rimmed glasses.

20 In “Stand and Deliver,” Ant and his criminal crew play dandified hooligans, escaping the noose in the final reel.

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