Word: flaneur
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...that used to line Fourth Avenue from the Bowery to Union Square. He spent these sojourns sorting through boxes of old embrowned photos, picking over trays of shells or handless watches, haunting the penny arcades, gazing mildly through shop windows at working girls whom he would never approach -a flaneur, not of self-display but of urban reverie...
Anatomical Outlaw. For a while, Bonnard was a flaneur and sketcher of Paris street life. Lithography, with its kinship to line drawing and its inherent limits of only a few undifferentiated colors, was Bonnard's proving ground. He embellished sheet music and illustrated the writings of Verlaine, Octave Mirbeau and Andre Gide. The flat stone's print only confirmed him as an outlaw toward perspective, modeling and rigorous anatomy...
...while Wilde insisted that style alone could create sincerity. It was in Shaw's nature to be a teetotaler, to dress in all the sincerity of rough Jaeger woolens, to stand on a soapbox and preach rebellion in pouring rain. Wilde made it his duty to be "a flaneur, a dandy, a man of fashion," and to preach revolution only in the best London drawing rooms. Shaw said bluntly: "All great truths begin as blasphemies," while Wilde remarked, with his lips ever so lightly curled: "If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found...
...Stars Remain (By Julius & Philip Epstein; Theatre Guild, producer). In Scene II of this bright confection, Clifton Webb, cast as a Sutton Place flaneur, sinks back into a sofa and murmurs to a young woman who wants to take him to a party at Southampton: "I am 32, my dear. My dancing days are over." If imperturbable, emaciated, 45-year-old Mr. Webb's dancing days are indeed over, it will be a bitter blow to those who recall with pleasure his slick gyrations in Sunny, Three's A Crowd, Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case...
...wine-shipping Oporto there was little bloodshed but excited crowds hung out the old blue & white monarchist flags and cheered for that amiable flaneur, ex-King Manoel...