I don't buy the idea but McKellen, with his fluidity of movement and blend of dapperness and danger, executes it perfectly. ❋ Unknown (2011)
All the smiling dapperness that had made him seem like a monkey to ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2000)
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 .... ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
He surveyed the two; Jarvis was tattered and scratched, but apparently in better condition than Leroy, whose dapperness was completely lost. ❋ Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (1918)
She disapproved of his toddling walk, his fat, stooped shoulders, his spats and general appearance of over-emphasized dapperness. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)
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. ❋ Unknown (1909)
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 .... ❋ John Jay Chapman (1897)
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. ❋ Unknown (1867)
So she was quite calm when the Marchbanks party came upon the ground, and Archie Mucklegrand, with white trousers and a lavender tie, and the trim, waxed moustache, looking very handsome in spite of his dapperness, found her out in the first two minutes, and attached himself to her forthwith in a most undetachable and determined manner, which was his way of being irresistible. ❋ Unknown (1865)
Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed deskism for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to me an exact fac-simile of what had been the perfection of bon ton about twelve or eighteen months before. ❋ Unknown (1845)
Yet, for all the research, the book is written with the elevated clarity and dapperness that is her preferred literary tone and also very much the way she speaks. ❋ David Sexton (2011)
The movement's love affair with a time that was not always kind to women or minorities, and that rigidly defined men - as the hard-drinking, womanizing "Mad Men" character Don Draper, for all his dapperness, showcases - has some social observers concerned. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Huffington Post has up a nice slideshow of his usual dapperness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They also make a reversible reflective smoking jacket, which I kind of love for its dapperness (dapperosity?). ❋ Melissa Esposito (2008)
