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For in him the dandiacal temper had been absolute hitherto, quite untainted and unruffled.
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Several characteristics are deemed essential to the constitution of the dandiacal identity, among which vanity reigns supreme.
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By mid-career, he was a narcissistic, dandiacal poseur, although Kelly finds it hard to see him as such.
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All this playing with words may sound a bit dandiacal and over-egging, so let me say immediately that, in the event, it does not have that effect.
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Charles Archibald Walker Rose CIE FRGS (1879-1961), ubiquitously known as Archie Rose, was a British diplomat, explorer and businessman in China during the early twentieth century.Obituary in The Times, Mr. Archibald Rose, 9 March 1961, p.19 Rose's obituary in The Times stated that he was 'a lovable and saint-like man. His dandiacal appearance and his taste for drollery were unsure guides to his true character, in which the dominant strain was a sort of earnest but unobtrusive chivalry'.
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Men of more notable accomplishments than Beau Brummell also adopted the dandiacal pose: Lord Byron occasionally dressed the part, helping reintroduce the frilled, lace-cuffed and lace-collared "poet shirt". In that spirit, he had his portrait painted in Albanian costume. Another prominent dandy of the period was Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay, the Count d'Orsay, who had been friends with Byron and who moved in the highest social circles of London. In 1836 Thomas Carlyle wrote: > A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence > consists in the wearing of Clothes.
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Movement away from European influences and toward the responsibility of writing distinctly American poetry may be traced to "Anecdote of the Jar" (1919). Bates suggests that Stevens the American burgher was self-conscious about the poses of aesthete and dandy, writing, > It is as though Stevens, having assumed the pose of aesthete, had suddenly > caught sight of himself in a mirror; thereafter, his dismay and amusement > became an integral part of the pose. The same might be said of his dandiacal > poems, for the dandy is by definition someone who lives always as though > reflected in a mirror; the dandy's vaunted wit sprang in the first place > from an awareness of his own absurd pretensions. Further compounding the > aesthetic dandy's self-consciousness, in Stevens' case, was his burgherly > sense of his own foppish creations.
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