epicene

There’s something of the Thin White Duke about Thomson — his author photo is rakish and epicene — but it’s more than that.

They looked very much alike, with heavy dark-blond hair and epicene faces as clear, as cheerful and grave, as a couple of Flemish angels.

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

His name is Strat, and he is played with beguiling epicene virility and lungs of steel by the willowy Andrew Polec.

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.