dapperness

I don't buy the idea but McKellen, with his fluidity of movement and blend of dapperness and danger, executes it perfectly.

The Syndicate – review | Michael Billington 2011

All the smiling dapperness that had made him seem like a monkey to

The Ladybird 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.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

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.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates 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 ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

He surveyed the two; Jarvis was tattered and scratched, but apparently in better condition than Leroy, whose dapperness was completely lost.

Valley of Dreams Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918

She disapproved of his toddling walk, his fat, stooped shoulders, his spats and general appearance of over-emphasized dapperness.

The Man from the Bitter Roots 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.

III. Essays. Man the Reformer. A Lecture Read before the Mechanics Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841 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 ....

Emerson and Other Essays 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.

Julian Home 1867