Voorbeelden van effeminate

• The opening satire attacks the contemporary court and courtier as luxurious and effeminate.

• As a result, he is transformed into a passive almost effeminate being who remains neutral and who extricates himself from social and political life.

• What combination of these and in what degree constitutes an "effeminate man"?

• Until about mid-century, picturing a man recumbent was a way to make him effeminate, a juxtaposition strikingly revealed in a political cartoon from roughly 1838.

• Pre-occupation with dress in men is often condemned as effeminate, associating men with negatively-perceived female qualities of vanity and narcissism.

• Pro-luxury writers refuted the suggestion that high levels of consumption rendered a nation weak and effeminate.

• In the nineteenth century these values also explicitly involved gender because ornamentation was considered sensual or effeminate, and the lack of ornamentation rational or masculine.

• Daphnis's association with ornament and metric dissonance is linked directly to his depiction as a sensitive, effeminate character.