epicene

There’s something of the Thin White Duke about Thomson — his author photo is rakish and epicene — but it’s more than that.

There was something fluid, almost epicene, about his lean body, and it made her remember that he had told her he did yoga.

His name is Strat, and he is played with beguiling epicene virility and lungs of steel by the willowy Andrew Polec.

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.

She made Van Vechten, who was gay but married twice, appear both epicene and heroic in a painting of him in his apartment, amid symbols of his myriad vocations.