as in effeminate
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Adjective
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So in a move that no one had approved, Wayans put on an effeminate voice for the character in hopes Executive Producer Lorne Michaels would be angry.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025 -
In both sketches, Keaton plays an effeminate man who doesn’t quite understand the assignment.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes,
20 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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In Benediction, Terence Davies had to split Siegfried Sassoon into two (Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi) to create a comparably complex personality, but Scott’s Adam is all the more moving for being less refined, a performance of sustained fragility and unmanly truth.—
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Dec. 2023
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Why is his governess, Mrs. Brock, fired for encouraging Richard’s unmanly interest in poetry and music?—
Francine Prose,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Nov. 2018
Adjective
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The effect not only evokes the effortless, feminine glamour of Grace Kelly, but makes this the most wearable color of spring and summer.—
Marilú Almaguer,
Glamour,
24 Jan. 2025
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However, sticking to her overall intention with the film, Berg draws a line between this technical skill and Buckley’s ethereal spirit, which, having been raised by a single mother, contained both masculine and feminine features and poured love onto others with reckless abandon.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The obvious split between masculine, feminine, and implicitly unmasculine is key to Campion’s pompous storytelling.—
Armond White,
National Review,
31 Dec. 2021
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On the other side of the divide, college is viewed as meandering, luxurious, usurious, and somehow unmasculine, which explains the increasing college gender gap (not only in enrollment, but increasingly completion).—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes,
15 Oct. 2021
Adjective
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My favorite was the dystopian one featured in the tour’s promotional, majestically capturing a Black, womanly otherworldliness concomitant with her performance.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
9 Oct. 2024
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Her namesake designs reflect her penchant for luxurious fabrics and impeccable make, unexpected flourishes via volume or texture, and womanly silhouettes with a modernist touch.—
Miles Socha,
WWD,
4 Sep. 2024
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“Metrosexual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metrosexual. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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