How To Use Dapperness In A Sentence
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She disapproved of his toddling walk, his fat, stooped shoulders, his spats and general appearance of over-emphasized dapperness.
The Man from the Bitter Roots
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However Theodore acknowledges that it might be the case that it's not hat-wearing that makes a man civil, dapper and courteous; it could be civility, dapperness and courtesy that make a man wear a hat.
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One account of Pierre Vigny makes reference to his dapperness and specifically mentions his silk britches
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So he will never be where the fathomless manhole awaits, where the safe falls from the high window shrieking like a bomb-he is a pilot through Earth's baddest minefields, if we only stay close to him, be where he is as much as we can-yet Maximilian's doom is never to go any further into danger than its dapperness, its skin-exciting first feel ....
Gravity's Rainbow
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Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity ....
Emerson and Other Essays
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Here a pearl-gray homburg is a signifier of dapperness, there a totem of an affair.
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It's George Clooney's powers of suave dapperness that have made him a great big movie star.
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He had tucked a polka-dotted ascot into the throat of his denim work shirt, accentuating the dapperness that seemed to originate from his hair.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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He surveyed the two; Jarvis was tattered and scratched, but apparently in better condition than Leroy, whose dapperness was completely lost.
Valley of Dreams
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I don't buy the idea but McKellen, with his fluidity of movement and blend of dapperness and danger, executes it perfectly.
The Syndicate – review | Michael Billington
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Connery is resplendent in his timeless dapperness throughout the adventure, so the game itself is looking like something of a 60s style piece from an aesthetic point of view.
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All the smiling dapperness that had made him seem like a monkey to
The Ladybird
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To them Bruce's genius was incontestably proved by the faultless evenness with which he parted his hair behind, the dapperness of his boots, and the merit of his spotless shirts.
Julian Home
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Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.
III. Essays. Man the Reformer. A Lecture Read before the Mechanics Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841