| The merest hint of effeminacy is treated as treachery to masculinity, and traitors are subjected to the kinds of violence suffered by women. |
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| On the other hand, this over-investment in his appearance marks the king's continuing effeminacy. |
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| It is interesting that one of the biggest selling books of the summer noted, and advocated, this shift towards effeminacy. |
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| Legal bans, eliminationist campaigns, and censorship are the means of subordinating effeminacy that refuses to know its place. |
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| The outdoors, he concluded, would eugenically inoculate boy children against the evils of over-sophistication and effeminacy as they grew. |
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| Through philosophy and philocaly, we both love beauty with frugality, and we seek after wisdom without effeminacy. |
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| Sometimes, a dreadful thought comes over me that I may have been guilty of the immoral effeminacy of using trochaic and tribrachic movements. |
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| Their minds are debased and evirated by effeminacy, lasciviousness, and fondness for loose pleasures. |
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| The bonfire of burning bras has finally died down and we should admit effeminacy is killing the arts. |
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| Anyway, some other gay men especially felt that his comments cast effeminacy in an unduly scornful light. |
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| It is the sexiest of instruments and there was a beautiful effeminacy about the way Wally played. |
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| Note-books to compose by yourself invite people to make day-to-day a space for dreams, effeminacy and eroticism. |
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| Florence, meanwhile, is in the throes of a religious revival led by the Dominican friar who thunders against vice, female luxuries, and male effeminacy. |
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| On the other hand, the ancient revulsion against emasculation, effeminacy, and males assuming, or forced into, the passive role of females is far less pervasive today. |
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| Calvin likewise warned listeners against the musical dangers of chaos, voluptuousness and effeminacy. |
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| The ephebic androgyny of the high classic Apollo turned into effeminacy in Hellenistic art. |
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| Inasmuch as these novels were largely read in French or in translation from French, they were associated with effeminacy. |
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| ValentÃn is a young upper-middle-class socialist revolutionary who initially berates Molina for his effeminacy and his lack of political conviction. |
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| Our early popular ideas of the mildness and effeminacy of the Hindoos were derived from the Bengalees, and are by no means characteristic of the general population of India. |
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| In typical fashion for many an incipient gay boy, when approaching teenage-hood Joshua feels excluded from his peers and is sometimes chided for a hint of effeminacy. |
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