effeteness

What he comes up with is an embarrassing generic effeteness.

He said sharply, "If you're speaking of effeteness, then betrayal should stand with it, not so?"

Yet the group's songs had no ivory-tower effeteness.

Sincerity, effeteness and vulgarity are neighbors in my considerable mound of plastic.

What rings true is not the caricature of swinish effeteness but the microscopic focus on the small picture.

Klaus has to protect Manfred from classroom bullies who attack him for his effeteness.

It has the harmonious grandeur of Versailles, but shorn of the effeteness.

He also paints "Three Small Angels," whose effeteness adds to their eeriness.

Mr. Everett goes through the motions of personifying a terminal effeteness with his usual aplomb.

As Hua, Mr. Young is all bruised effeteness, which seems absolutely right.

Some writers have attempted to draw out an association between the daintiness of the sandwich and the perceived effeteness of the British aristocracy.

My boy, he said, should not be brought up with the same ideas of bourgeois effeteness and love of luxury which had disgraced the nation for centuries.

In the opening acts of "Richard II" his monarch is rendered with extravagant effeteness, almost to the point of caricature.

Once again, the down-and-out character schemes to gain the upper hand, and the wild pioneer spirit shows up the phoniness and effeteness of so-called civilization.

What seemed passionate and austere in him when pursued in the starkness of prison is reduced to effeteness when indulged in freedom.

Whereas boulevard said fancy, said sophisticated, and if this effeteness jangled alongside muscular Alaska, that evidently didn't bother the developer or his buyers.

When Jeremy boasts of being in prime fighting shape from having taken Jazzercise and Pilates classes, they're obvious buzzwords signaling his effeteness.

What about the la-di-da effeteness of a heterosexual like Beardsley, or the straightforward ruggedness of a homosexual like Whitman?

It was an "I'm all right, Jack" attitude, a social machismo that equated wealth with effeteness, simplicity with goodness, and poverty (up to a point) with honesty.

Through the lights and shadows of its lyrical fabric transpire a ravishing sensitivity and intoxicating effeteness and, almost antithetically, a persistent tone of youthful optimism.

It was effete, thought Baley somberly as he went through the luxurious ritual, but it was an effeteness that (he already knew) he could become accustomed to.

His Low Country drawl onlystrengthened the impression of aristocratic effeteness: "Upon myword, Miss Colleton, we surely have here an extraordinary series ofcontrasts, do we not?"

The effeteness of the court was exacerbated by the weakness of the emperors, manipulated over centuries by the intrigues of the notorious and politically dominant Fujiwara family, who effectively ruled the country.

George White Jr. had a startlingly superb menace as Hades and the Watchman, while Pascal Rioult's Aegisthus hit the right fusion of beefcake brawn and cringing effeteness.

The Self-Image of Effeteness: Physical Education and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Bengal by John Rosselli, Past and Present, No. 86 (Feb., 1980)