This coupled with his dark sensuous eyes and full lips gave him an effete quality.
For all its creative excellence, the Ecole de Nancy was, then, no effete ivory tower.
The candidate is sunny, effete, and barely mentions his opponent, concentrating instead on telling his own story.
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There was effete, uneven applause in the cabin when the plane touched down on the runway in Sheremetyevo.
The Democrats, meanwhile, strike some white men as effete, cosmopolitan and condescending.
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Saying that the French are great winemakers, lovers, or connoisseurs is not a stereotype, but saying that the French are feckless and effete is.
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The Portuguese like to note that their bullfights, unlike effete Spanish ones, end with the bull being wrestled to the ground by unarmed men.
He grew up in London, where the Fleet Street tabloid culture is cutthroat, and he shares the Murdochian view of American journalism as effete, earnest, and uncompetitive.
He devoted himself between the wars to restoring Mozart to his rightful Olympian status, after he had been dismissed by wild-eyed 19th-century romantics who considered him lightweight and effete.
The effete commentariat has indeed got away too long with having it both ways: agreeing that ideology has ended whilst mocking Mr Blair for trying to do good without having one.
"I feel as if I am walking on thin ice, " he said then, and even now his nervous smile and effete hand wave suggest someone afraid to venture too far from the shore.
I'm betting some of the pianist's larger muscles get a workout in the Scherzos and Sonatas, but Chopin (and, by extension, many of his interpreters) is still seen as a sickly, effete purveyor of dainty piano ditties.
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