dandyism in a sentence
Examples
- This era was the height of " dandyism " in London, when men wore striped silks upon their return from the Grand Tour, along with a feather in the hat.
- But there is often a particular dandyism in them; many wear black eyeliner ( part of the descendant-of-Muhammad costume ), and their hair is long and curly.
- In the program notes, Mispelaere cited a panoply of divergent inspirations, ranging from " African dandyism " and Surrealism to the " truncated prose of William Burroughs ."
- To Doonan a more successful example of dandyism was Ricardo Montalban, the star of the original " Fantasy Island, " who wore his white suits as smoothly as his Latin charm.
- Writing on the history of fashion and, in particular, dandyism, in 2002, George Walden said : " Charles Frederick Worth dictated fashion in France a century and a half before Galliano ".
- Powell's dandyism, keen sense of fashion history and mix of references from the Edwardian era to the present day has been recognised as contributing to the resuscitation of " great British bespoke ".
- In his courtship of death ( to whose imminent threat he would later answer with dignity ), he takes his spiritual dandyism to extremes, like in the Balada do Caix�o " ( The Coffin Ballad ).
- Dandyism found its exemplar in the writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, who praised Brummel as a single-minded artist, who " looked life straight in the face out of the corner of his eyes ."
- There's also an excerpt from Nicholas Antongiavanni's upcoming book " The Dandy, " in which he wittily points out how American politicians risk disaster if their clothing suggests dandyism rather than dependable formality.
- The first such depiction is through the character Trebeck in Thomas Henry Lister s " Granby " ( 1826 ), who abandons dandyism when he discovers a waistcoat of his devising worn by a natty apprentice.