Could Tennessee Williams' Blanche Dubois have inherited elements of female
dandyish excess?
Today's tabooless pop culture also has affected our perception of Fosse's rough-housing baseball players from ``Damn Yankees,'' who now look a bit
dandyish and quaint compared to the boot-crunching denizens of ``Tap Dogs,'' ``STOMP
to pose with the
dandyish Pertwee (father of movie star Sean).
Then Glasgow-based Alex Pollard presents a cast of strange,
dandyish males in dazzling but cryptic paintings of figures ranging from jesters in medieval costume to Victorian criminal legends.
Well, here's our
dandyish decorator, in his other splendid house in Cornwall (the other series forgot to mention that) banging on about how he's never happier than when he's by the sea.
A solicitor, Mr Abse became a flamboyant figure in Westminster, renowned for his
dandyish attire.
Madrid threw up an unmistakable, real-life example of the
dandyish aristocratic pursuer of men.
Mr Abse was a flamboyant politician, becoming well-known for his
dandyish appearance in the House of Commons on Budget day.
A straight piece of wood behaves in its own medium as a stable, unimaginative person will act in his or her life, while the meanders of a curved piece correspond, however obliquely, with the casual elegance of an unruffled and
dandyish soul," he suggests.
All the cast provide strong, characterful performances, with Mr Blackwood himself presenting a delightful caricature as the ageing, rheumatic rake Lord Ogleby, whose
dandyish son, Sir John Ogleby (Christopher Robinson) is to be married to Betsy (Rachel Carpenter), elder daughter of the rich commoner Sterling (Phil Jervis) in a union which will end the poverty of the titled family and bring nobility to the Sterlings.
Playing the large
dandyish writer with obvious gusto, Stephen Fry looks uncannily like Wilde and presents an edgy mixture of superciliousness and vulnerability.
Maures civic engagement matured during a period of general protest and revolutionary outbursts in Italy, but was constructed over many years of reflection and scattered considerations that at first might have seemed vague and disconnected, even
dandyish.
A solicitor by profession, Mr Abse became renowned for his
dandyish attire.
Roberts swiftly established himself as a quirky captain - he preferred tea to rum and revelled in
dandyish clothes.
If other characters--the
dandyish Cecil in A Room with a View, Freddy in Howards End--had struck me as having a gay sensibility, here at last was a protagonist who acknowledged that sensibility in himself and who, over the course of the novel, chose to accept and act upon his homosexual feelings.
