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

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

From New York Times

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

He titled his recent memoir, Master of Ceremonies, borrowing the name from his best-known role, the menacing, epicene emcee of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret, a part he recreated for the Bob Fosse movie version.

From The Guardian