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

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 • Sep. 26, 2016

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

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