epicene

Example Sentences

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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

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

Isn’t he the swivel-hipped song-and-dance man who won a Tony Award in 2004 playing the epicene entertainer Peter Allen in “The Boy From Oz”?

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

There was something fluid, almost epicene, about his lean body, and it made her remember that he had told her he did yoga.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie