How To Use Epicene In A Sentence
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In this movie though, it's formed out of an epicene husband and a working-class orphan who have cemented their bonds in her absence, in a tent on an overnighter in the dark forest, to the tune of hooting owls.
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His epicene beauty and use of cosmetics to cover hypochondriacal pallor prompted Pope's spiteful brilliance of ‘Let Sporus tremble’.
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Today we venerate Caravaggio as the master of chiaroscuro effects of light and shade, of saints with dirty feet, of dramatic religious encounters, as the painter of figures of epicene sexuality.
Return to the Grim and Dark
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His face was as much feminine as masculine, of that kind called epicene, and Carmine doubted that the double-sexed look would vanish as he grew older.
TOO MANY MURDERS
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In this movie though, it's formed out of an epicene husband and a working-class orphan who have cemented their bonds in her absence, in a tent on an overnighter in the dark forest, to the tune of hooting owls.
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Only her wastrel cousin Vincent Vere, she believes, possesses a poetic soul similar to her own, though the philistine world regards him as nothing but a sickly, rather epicene dandy and sponge.
Tolstoy and Trollope Fans, Meet Couperus
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Many in the military, more bluntly, have a stereotype of gays as mincing, epicene "others" —a cartoon image which, the Pentagon survey shows, overwhelmingly evaporates on personal acquaintance.
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In a more recent movement, "hir" and "ze" (pronounced "here" and "zee") are sometimes used to describe transgender people - a contemporary challenge that confronts the idea of epicene English like never before.
The Michigan Daily
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The mad cuckoo behind the little door could not resist casting a shadow upon the virility of his enemy, just as the cuckoo astonishingly characterized those who demonstrated against the war in New York, October 1965, as "epicene" and "mincing" slobs, thus slyly assigning to sodom’s banner such unlikely recruits as I.F. Stone, Ossie Davis, and Father Philip Berrigan.
R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
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Some suggestive verbs became known as copulative; nouns and pronouns might be epicene; constructions might be pregnant.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2
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When it occurs in a woman, it not only substitutes in her case a wiry and perhaps thin bearded masculineness for distinctive feminine traits and power, making her an epicene, but it entails a variety of prolonged weaknesses, that dwarf her rightful power in almost every direction.
Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls
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He had an epicene beauty and his iconic character was the ‘thing in itself,’ comedy and pathos in the same figure.
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The kind of looks called epicene, a beauty as much feminine as masculine, and such amazing coloring!
The First Man in Rome
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Perhaps it augurs a return to the epicene male fashion of Genji's time.
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She argued that Camp, a style marked by extravagance, epicene in character, expressed a new sensibility that would "dethrone the serious.
A Very Public Intellectual
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Among my favorites are the triumphant warrior Fortinbras represented by a pair of barefoot drips in angel costume, he blond and epicene, she a redheaded virago.
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There are also putti riding dolphins and angels with fluttering tunics pressing against their epicene bodies.
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But the merely decorative celebrity cameos — bluff, bearded Walt Whitman, with an "epicene" male friend, and Charles Darwin, who loudly and repeatedly breaks wind — make clear that "Heyday" is infotainment for readers Andersen must consider clueless.
He'll Take Manhattan
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‘More epicene than handsome, if you asked me,’ he muttered a bit darkly.
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The picture seems driven, at least partly, by an impulse to contradict the more epicene tendencies of this country's art-house filmmaking.
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The Transbad Saints, on the other hand, are a slick crowd of phoneys led by the posturing, epicene Helmet Al Weaver, who steal a No 1 hit from Keva and head for the States.
Powder – review
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There are also putti riding dolphins and angels with fluttering tunics pressing against their epicene bodies.
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For someone who has spent much of his life perfecting an image of epicene other-worldliness, he now bears startlingly normal hallmarks of a bloke you'd enjoy talking to down the pub.
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Puss teams up with Humpty Dumpty a creepily epicene ovoid voiced with eerie plaintiveness by Zach Galifianakis to repay an old debt by stealing some magic beans from Jack and Jill.
'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders
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The editor, or _editress_, (for we doubt whether the former is epicene,) of this elegant little volume is the lady of Mr. A.aric A. Watts, the editor of the _Literary Souvenir_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828
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Many in the military, more bluntly, have a stereotype of gays as mincing, epicene "others" —a cartoon image which, the Pentagon survey shows, overwhelmingly evaporates on personal acquaintance.
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In the haunting, even epicene strains of the suite's final entry in E flat minor, the high beams of his immaturity shine so bright as to burn a hole in its very fabric.
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Their gestures, facial expressions, and vocal intonations render them stereotypically gay or epicene.
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He was also a eunuch of such beauty that the sultan fell for his epicene handsomeness and appointed him his senior commander.
