epicene

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In “Los Angeles Plays Itself,” still the best documentary ever made about the city and its architecture, director Thom Andersen wonders why “modernist architecture connotes epicene villainy” in so many movies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2017

Setting thin, epicene Aubrey Beardsley-like figures against colorful art deco backgrounds, Nielsen was one of the most admired early 20th-century book illustrators, the equal to Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2015

And Hillary is one of those epicene names—like Ashley, Kim and Vivian—that are more predominantly feminine in the U.S. than elsewhere in the Anglosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 17, 2015

From a persnickety, epicene bachelor, Warwick evolves into a madman running wild in his own home, and from there into a diabolical sociopath.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2011

They looked very much alike, with heavy dark-blond hair and epicene faces as clear, as cheerful and grave, as a couple of Flemish angels.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt