How To Use dandyism In A Sentence
- Eustache always retains a trace of dandyism, whereas Pialat is fundamentally a proletarian.
- As such, the 1880s and 1890s found dandyism once more of good repute. The Dandy | Edwardian Promenade
- Yet the idealism implicit in his project, which, I have suggested, runs parallel to dandyism, is complicated by the awareness that the Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
- Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest
- His literary career, combined with his reputation for eccentricity, dandyism, and a love of dancing and theatre, prevented his preferment in the Church.
- He was handsome, and he knew that he was handsome; but he affected to despise the beauty of his proud dark face, as he affected to despise all the brightest and most beautiful things upon earth: and yet there was a vagabondish kind of foppery in his costume that contrasted sharply with the gentlemanly dandyism of the shabby gamester sitting at the table. Birds of Prey
- Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Just as historical dandyism took its fashion and performance cues from women, so too did the Hollywood version respond to a new screen woman, who helped create a context for the modernized dandy.
- Besides that, I'm given to foppishness and dandyism and always feel like I'm showing off when I dress up. Archive 2008-03-01
- Dandyism, as a self-conscious aesthetic life style, expresses modern people' s desire to seek the value of themselves and the significance of life by aestheticizing daily life.
