epicene

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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 Literature

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

From Literature

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

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.

From The New Yorker