Word: dandyish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this irreverence suggests that Donleavy is himself a sort of Sebastian Dangerfield, and in fact The Ginger Man was written with highly autobiographical intentions. In the 25 years since its publication, however, Donleavy has changed considerably. The dandyish narrator of The Unexpurgated Code is far removed from Donleavy the young novelist...
Behind its dramatic structure, the English comedy of manners presupposes a class structure. Endemic to it is a social vocabulary in which the urbanely bent knee, the suavely kissed hand, the smartly swirled cape and assorted dandyish flourishes come as second nature. In such comedies, style is substance, and the witty gesture counts for as much as the witty word...
STANLEY KUBRICK'S biting and dandyish vision of subtopia is not simply a social satire but a brilliant cultural one. No movie in the last decade (perhaps in the history of film) has made such exquisitely chilling predictions about the future role of cultural artifacts-paintings, buildings, sculpture, music-in society, or extrapolated them from so undeceived a view of our present culture...