Word: foppish
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...waited on deck," reports Carruthers, the narrator, a clever, foppish young Foreign Office sprig who has just joined Davies, a sea-struck Oxford classmate, on his cruising boat, "and watched the death-throes of the suffocating sands under the relentless onset of the sea ... The Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received ... Soon her warp tightened and her nose swung slowly round; only her stern bumped now, and that with decreasing force. Suddenly she was free and drifting broadside to the wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward...
...outdone by their countrywomen, the notoriously foppish young men of London's Macaroni Club (so named because of its members' love of Continental food and fashions) have also begun sporting coiffures of enormous height. Most Englishmen, however, are turning to a more natural look. The cumbersome, bottom-heavy periwig, with its almost waist-length expanse of curls, has long since given way to a proliferation of shorter, more comfortable styles...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Since then he has become the leading movie actor of his generation. Some of his films have been good; more have been awful. No matter. Audiences could always count on Brando for performances that were surprising, overwhelming in their power, sometimes perversely idiosyncratic-his foppish Mr. Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty, for example. At the very least, there was always an unforgettable moment or two, like the garden scene in The Godfather in which he mugs for his grandchild. Brando loves to mug in real life too, as the pictures taken on The Missouri Breaks...
...result. Having bartered his soul to the devil, Faustus undergoes a gradual spiritual degradation--a degradation whose dramatic impact depends on the demonstrable grandeur of his initial aspirations. When that grandeur is lacking--as it is in this production--the proud doctor is debased to the level of a foppish magician whose downfall is pitiable but hardly tragic...
Young Country is a bicentennial musical for children with an execrable script, quite good songs and a very competent cast from Boston area high schools. Richard Williams steals the show as a foppish John Hancock (who just adored the Tea Party); Roger Kabler seems destined to be the next Tatum O'Neal and sings louder than anyone else in the cast; and the play boasts in the title role of Paul Reverse the son of Governor Dukakis...