With this reflection Jekyl arose to begin his toilet, an occupation which, less from dandyism than pure self-love, he usually prolonged during the whole morning.
Our hero, our Nelson, kept his nautical dandyism until he was middle-aged.
He had no weapon, for he affected rather the peaceful magnificence of the great burgher, than the pugnacious dandyism which had replaced the old sombre dandyism in Barker.
Differ on the fundamental principles Dishwater from the washings of English dandyism Disputing about remainders and fractions Do you ever wonder why poets talk so much about flowers?
His artistic dandyism had been harshly treated by that scramble.
Rosek stood looking down at her; his stillness, the sweetish gravity of his well-cut lips, his spotless dandyism stirred in Gyp a kind of unwilling admiration.
Life at Mildenham was lonely, save for Winton's hunting cronies, and they but few, for his spiritual dandyism did not gladly suffer the average country gentleman and his frigid courtesy frightened women.
During these last nine months of his daughter's society, he had regained a distinct measure of youthfulness, an extra twist in his little moustache, an extra touch of dandyism in his clothes, and the gloss of his short hair.
It was with the advent of Brummel, however, that the cult of dandyism became a social force.
It was Beau Brummel, the high-priest of fashion, who gave dandyism its great vogue.
A good many powerful and dangerous people have had a decided dash of dandyism about them.
So was Marcus Antonius: and though he lost his game, he played for big stakes, and it wasn't his dandyism that spoiled his chance.
His dandyismwas offensive, mainly because it did not sit naturally upon him.
He has the dirt and dandyism of the one, with the ferocity of the other: sometimes he is made to swindle, but where he can get a shilling more, M.
Absurd as was the literary dandyism of those days, it is not a whit less absurd now: only the manner is changed, and our versatile Frenchmen have passed from one caricature to another.
In this, too, there is perhaps more dandyism at Chesney Wold than the brilliant and distinguished circle will find good for itself in the long run.
Dandyism as yet affects to look down on Drudgism: but perhaps the hour of trial, when it will be practically seen which ought to look down, and which up, is not so distant.
She had disliked him as an evil influence, setting before her son an example of showy ambition that he was not in the least likely to follow, and providing him with a model of extravagant dandyism that he was only too certain to copy.
Elaine was too clever to confound his dandyism with foppishness or self- advertisement.
But there is no reason why dandyism should be confused, as it has been by nearly all writers, with mere social life.
Carlyle speaks of dandyismas a survival of 'the primeval superstition, self-worship.
In one way dandyism is the least selfish of all the arts.
Surely he should have perceived that, so long as Civilisation compels her children to wear clothes, the thoughtless multitude will never acknowledge dandyism to be an art.
Dandyism is, after all, one of the decorative arts.
Dandyism is ever the outcome of a carefully cultivated temperament, not part of the temperament itself.
Let him reflect that fashion is no bondage imposed by alien hands, but the last wisdom of his own kind, and that true dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
A lively example of dandyism unrestrained by taste, he parodied in his person the foibles of Mr. Brummell and the King.
Dandyism as yet affects to look-down on Drudgism: but perhaps the hour of trial, when it will be practically seen which ought to look down, and which up, is not so distant.
So was Marcus Antonius; and though he lost his game, he played for big stakes, and it wasn't his dandyism that spoiled his chance.
And it was because he guarded not his dandyism against this and that irrelevant passion, sexual or political, that he cut so annoyingly incomplete a figure.
In the full pomp and radiance of his dandyism he would die.
And this dandyism--the dandyism of the roustabout--I find in Whitman's poetry from beginning to end.
There was dandyism in his delicate handwriting, and the same care went to the arrangement of his cards of invitation and his letters; he would consider even the placing of his signature on a receipt.
This is the explanation of the dandyism that has shocked more than one of his critics.
Moreover, it gave occasion for his dandyism and his love of display.
Again his dandyism supported him, and he played the part of a dying man in a full suit of black, his hair, as always, dressed and powdered.
The least spice of dandyism might have distinguished him from his fellows, and Peace's whole vanity lay in his craft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dandyism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chic; conceit; elegance; neatness; sharpness
