His modern-day company is a shaft of light into a world he once straddled with an unprecedented combination of foppishness and fear tactics. |
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As we watched, we were mainly struck by the self-involved foppishness of all the central characters. |
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Despite what you may have heard, dandyism is the antithesis of foppishness. |
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By 1720 Restoration foppishness had given place to the dignity of the first Georgian period. |
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Its well-heeled nobles were enslaved by the necessity to compete for the king's favour and dictated to by fashion and foppishness. |
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This clip shows that suspicion, albeit framed in an eccentric foppishness that sees him repeat the word Tommy about 100 times in five seconds. |
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He let everyone call him Wilkie, and shunned formal dress, favoring broad stripes and loud colors, not with the calculated foppishness of the young Dickens but with genuine bohemian disregard for appearances. |
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