Word: foppishness
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...elegance and color of the costuming and the traditional splendor of the deep-cut sets. Ruth Ford, a fetching Roxane, knows the coquette routine thoroughly, though at times she plays it over-precious. The supporting characters are without depth, as the playwright drew them, and beyond Hiram Sherman's foppish Ragineau, there was little opportunity for scene stealing...
James Lamantia, as fired, and Evelyn Merson, as "amante" of Alceste, both give capable, if not outstanding, performances; perhaps the latter's chief flaw is a tendency to overdo her coy coquetry. Mollere's foppish aristocracy, as inevitable as Shakespeare's colwns, is capably portrayed by Hibbard James. Harold Fondren and Robert Miller...
Also included were foppish, swaggering Vice Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin), who was as bitterly anti-Russian as his namesake; General Konstantin Voiculescu, ex-Governor of Bessarabia, who was given to hanging rebellious peasants or drowning them in their wells...
...correspondents find nothing wrong with Perón personally. He is well-mannered, well-dressed without being particularly stiff or foppish. He can tell a good joke, enjoy a joke at his own expense. A widower, he has a pretty, 17-year-old daughter, Maria Inez. He likes to cook, to fish, to hunt, and to be with a charming movie star named Eva Duarte. An extremely hard worker, he admires Americans because they work hard. At home in drawing rooms, he is equally at ease with workingmen...
...Author. Novelist Llewellyn is more interesting than his hero. His full name is Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd, and he is so professionally Welsh that a map of Wales is engraved on his cigarette case. Llewellyn wears a big ruby ring, foppish suits, tight-waisted overcoats with outsize boutonnieres...