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.

• Braddon implicitly argues that the space of fascination is a female one and that women, rather than effeminate men, will be successful within it.

• Such contrasts between active, manly virtue and its presumed opposites, the effeminate vices of cowardice, idleness, luxury, and dependency, fill the writings of the revolutionary and early national eras.

• A taste for consumer goods, especially luxuries, made a nation weak, self-indulgent and effeminate, undermining the fighting qualities of its army and the selfdenying virtues necessary for good citizenship.

• Here the sofa could be a platform for conversation between men and women, but it could also raise fears of effeminate influence and luxury, corroders of independent male citizens.

• I regard it neither as effeminate nor yet as a kind of criminal act to do so.

• We are made of much sterner stuff, and the consumption of beer is a habit which we regard as effeminate.