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This foppish dandy is the Penguin in the pantheon of Washington, D.C., DC Comics villains.
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Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
Keith Jameson has the keen character tenor and bit of fussiness for the foppish Frenchman Triquet.
—Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
Onstage, the band dressed in the sort of foppish outfits favored by several other white acts of the mid-1960s: knee-high socks, short ties, floppy collars.
—Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
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Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
Keith Jameson has the keen character tenor and bit of fussiness for the foppish Frenchman Triquet.
—Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
Onstage, the band dressed in the sort of foppish outfits favored by several other white acts of the mid-1960s: knee-high socks, short ties, floppy collars.
—Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
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“Foppish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foppish. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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