Could Tennessee Williams' Blanche Dubois have inherited elements of female
dandyish excess?
of
dandyish pose in this inveterate and supremely gifted blasphemer of
Disraeli was Jewish, a self-made novelist with a preference for
dandyish clothes.
In this case the fat man was a butcher from Wagga Wagga in Australia who ballooned to nearly thirty stone in the course of his long campaign to prove himself Sir Roger Tichborne, a slim
dandyish aristocrat and heir to the Tichborne estate, presumed to have died at sea many years previous to the Claimant's appearance on the public stage in 1865.
However, the magazine's avant-garde credentials should not be exaggerated: unlike the
dandyish Yellow Book, Ford's English Review cultivated the patrician tone of the Victorian "higher journalism," hinting at connections with influential political elites.
(Unlike some modern moralities of "self-actualization," the fashioning or paideia of the self that Stoicism speaks of is not some kind of self-centered,
dandyish aesthetics of the self; it is an arduous under taking that calls for an overcoming of the natural self and that must be guided by universal moral principles or decreta.) A recurrent theme in existential phenomenology in this regard is that mere "sentimentalism" (as James called it) will not get anyone anywhere and is, in fact, a surefire recipe for perdition.
Zip Coon, a mainstay in early minstrelsy, was a character often performed wearing similar tight pants and
dandyish garb, a citified counterpoint to the "bulging eyes, jutting hips, loose facial expressions, and elongated, flapping feet" of the raggedly-clad Jim Crow character.
But underneath his trademark
dandyish ivory suit, pop journalism, and self-publicizing lies a deeply moral, traditional, and conservative ethos.
DID you see when the
dandyish star took his 'brand' of humour across the pond for the MTV Awards?
From the moment he barreled through the editorial corridor in his
dandyish three-piece suit and sat down in my office with his legs splayed like a boxer on a bar stool, I was in his camp, permanently.
A solicitor by profession, Mr Abse became a flamboyant figure in Westminster, renowned for his
dandyish attire.
In none of his encounters with Harker's band does Dracula lay a hand on the men's bodies, his property acquisitions are scrupulously legitimate, and he even affects a
dandyish style on London's streets.