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• The word itself came to refer not to their food but to their foppery.
• But the uniforms weren't mere foppery.
• Abandoning the British virtue of understatement, he combined post-Edwardian foppery with pre-Schwarzeneggerian swashbuckling.
• He's so haughty he makes Microsoft humble, but he gives good counsel when not engaged in dilettantish foppery.
• As for Breslau's portrait of the English versifier Henry Davison, he is the very apotheosis of English foppery.
• JFK might have scoffed at " the excellent foppery of the world . . . fools by heavenly compulsion ."
• Though slogging deeper and deeper into New Age foppery, Santa Fe needs a French restaurant to counterbalance its annoying custom of spoiling Mexican food with dollops of sour cream.
• Edmund mocks " the excellent foppery of the world, " that " we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars ."
• Then there are the meticulously hand-sewn costumes, everything from the gray flannel uniform of Kim Jong Il to the elaborate military finery of Moammar Ghadafi or the African foppery of Robert Mugabe.
• Self-made man and sourpuss that he was, John Adams once professed to his wife, Abigail, that he loathed the " frippery, folly, foppery " and luxury of prerevolutionary Boston.
• Henry Cockburn lamented the loss of the square's historical name, Parliament Close, a change he attributed to the silliness of fashion ( " foppery " ) when he wrote his memoir of life in Edinburgh in the 1820s.
• At the time, Sills was so seeped in the foppery of Percy Blakeney, his " Pimpernel " role, that he couldn't imagine himself in a role that was 180 degrees away from what he was currently doing.
• Between these punchy, revealing exchanges, Mamet crosscuts to scenes from the pretty awful plays the men are performing : a sappy World War I foxhole drama, a bit of Restoration foppery, a ludicrous yarn about two castaways at sea, and so on.
• As the current owner of small-boat-size feet, I am saddled with a brace of size 14 to 15s, depending upon the degree of foppery I select for my footgear, I am devastated that I never realized what an advantage I'd have had in the pool.
• Hazlitt also objects to the way " Richard III " was frequently edited for the stage at that time . " To make room for [ . . . ] worse than needless additions " from other plays, often not by Shakespeare, " many of the most striking passages in the real play have been omitted by the foppery and ignorance of the prompt-book critics . " Viewing it as the stage presentation of a story, he finds this play is damaged by these manipulations, as, in Shakespeare's original, the " arrangement and developement of the story, and the mutual contrast and combination of the " dramatis personae ", are in general as finely managed as the developement of the characters or the expression of the passions . " He remarks on another kind of editing what would soon become known as " Bowdlerisation "  in the treatment of a passage in " Romeo and Juliet " in which the frank speech of Juliet alarmed the prudes of his day.