foppish

1 The plentiful mime is both broad and exact, capable of showing — without sound — how Harlequin’s foppish rival sings poorly.

2 They’ve also made a celebrity of his foppish head of hair, a cross between a traditional mullet and ’80’s hair band singer.

3 Moore can lay on Wimsey’s fussy, foppish mannerisms awfully thick as well, like a dandy in an old drawing room comedy rather than a gentleman of true substance.

4 The fork was generally ignored until the late 16th century as a super­fluous and foppish metallic intrusion between sensual food and willing mouth.

5 In love with the beautiful Aurora, Felix knows that their chances of marrying are slim: The girl’s father wants her to wed a foppish courtier from the local prince’s inner circle.

6 Ted Peckham, a foppish Midwestern arriviste in his early twenties, spotted this opening in the market soon after he arrived in New York.

7 He also suggested that fellow servants wear slippers at dawn so as not to “disturb the family before they are up” and dress neatly without looking “foppish, or extravagant.”

8 But among a certain class of old-fashioned conservatives, such foppish trivialities are as transgressive as a heroin addiction.

9 But with all the neckerchiefs, showy silks and foppish fabrics on display, it was clear that the original dandy’s been on many designers’ minds.

10 Nearby a half-length painting of Saint Sebastian reimagines its subject as an almost foppish youth with auburn hair and a single arrow piercing his smooth torso.

11 The van Dyck self-portrait, though a great painting, is of a foppish, effeminate figure, with rouge-red lips and long tapered fingers adorned with a little pinkie ring.

12 Onstage, the band dressed in the sort of foppish outfits favored by several other white acts of the mid-1960s: knee-high socks, short ties, floppy collars.

13 Keith Jameson has the keen character tenor and bit of fussiness for the foppish Frenchman Triquet.

14 And there’s fun to be had with these performances, including Hugh Grant playing a foppishly pretentious academic with impeccable condescension.

15 To judge from the descriptions in “Godine at Fifty,” some of these early efforts verged on the foppish — fine printing for the sake of fine printing.

16 A name like Nigel Farage, were it to appear in a historical novel, might indicate a tendency to foppish indolence and swagger.

17 Freddie Fox’s foppish, strawberry blond teenage monarch, Louis, conveys some sense of the ridiculous as he and Buckingham compare fashion notes.

18 The real BeBe, a sleepy-eyed charmer dressed in a foppish suit, came on stage at the end of Thursday’s performance to bask in the glory of the moment and to acknowledge the company.

19 The finery he breaks out when Edgar returns at the end to challenge Edmund to a duel is so ludicrously foppish I wondered if a young Liberace might have been the design inspiration.

20 Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar.

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