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as in effeminacy
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as in tenderness
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Noun
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This horror at effeminacy echoes across Baldwin’s novels and essays.—
Garth Greenwell, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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The researchers theorized this could be in part because of greater stigma toward effeminacy in boys than masculinity in girls.—
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But anyone willing to consider the thicket of fears, affections and recriminations that grows through the cracks of a long relationship will find in these pages an almost unbearable tenderness.—
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Let tenderness lead, and safety should grow organically.—
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These formulas are designed to replenish the water lost during cleansing, restoring comfort and softness immediately after washing.—
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This almost-white hue carries cool and warm undertones, giving it depth and softness.—
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Both stated that the caller had spoken to a doctor about a curable virus that could cause impotence if not treated.—
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The new procedures that will have AI determine their prior authorization decisions include nerve stimulation, steroid injections for pain management, cervical fusion, knee surgery, impotence treatment and some skin substitutes.—
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We are left to sit in our own helplessness and with the memory of hers.—
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Hitting the lowest point gave me resistance, courage, and new emotional depth — anger, helplessness, pain — all of which become fuel for an actor.—
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One year before Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire published their compendium of Greek myths, Cicellis released her second work of fiction, The Way to Colonos, which ruthlessly dramatizes the limits of individual freedom and the agony of facing one’s powerlessness.—
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There is no solution except to grow up, acknowledge our powerlessness, and come to terms with our despair.—
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As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.—
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Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.—
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“Effeteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effeteness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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