Mr Hatoyama, grandson of a prime minister, was born with an effete sense of political entitlement.
This coupled with his dark sensuous eyes and full lips gave him an effete quality.
For all its creative excellence, the Ecole de Nancy was, then, no effete ivory tower.
The candidate is sunny, effete, and barely mentions his opponent, concentrating instead on telling his own story.
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There was effete, uneven applause in the cabin when the plane touched down on the runway in Sheremetyevo.
She would meet people head on whether a patronizing don, a knife-waving dervish, a corrupt Turkish official, or an effete English aristocrat.
Has India's politics and economy become hostage to petty interests, helped abundantly by a government which is seen as effete and weak?
The Democrats, meanwhile, strike some white men as effete, cosmopolitan and condescending.
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Saying that the French are great winemakers, lovers, or connoisseurs is not a stereotype, but saying that the French are feckless and effete is.
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The Portuguese like to note that their bullfights, unlike effete Spanish ones, end with the bull being wrestled to the ground by unarmed men.
He grew up in London, where the Fleet Street tabloid culture is cutthroat, and he shares the Murdochian view of American journalism as effete, earnest, and uncompetitive.
But if ever there were ever a Democrat who should absolutely not in any way be viewed as a cowardly and effete milquetoast it is Barack Hussein Obama.
France's Fourth Republic saw a series of weak, short-lived governments, whose rule was generally marked by crisis and compromise, and whose leaders were often regarded as corrupt and effete.
He devoted himself between the wars to restoring Mozart to his rightful Olympian status, after he had been dismissed by wild-eyed 19th-century romantics who considered him lightweight and effete.
He was everything Democrats were seen as through the eyes of the Republican opposition: an effete, Ivy League flip-flopper who could debate with a silver tongue but had no backbone.
The effete commentariat has indeed got away too long with having it both ways: agreeing that ideology has ended whilst mocking Mr Blair for trying to do good without having one.
Mr. Putin heaped abuse on the demonstrators as effete agents of the U.S. State Department, while aides said that they represented the best of Russian society and should be treated with respect.
"I feel as if I am walking on thin ice, " he said then, and even now his nervous smile and effete hand wave suggest someone afraid to venture too far from the shore.
Admittedly, there isn't much to see most of its magic is in the form of auction catalogues and photographic reproductions but I appreciate the concept of an institute wholly devoted to one of mankind's more effete pursuits.
I'm betting some of the pianist's larger muscles get a workout in the Scherzos and Sonatas, but Chopin (and, by extension, many of his interpreters) is still seen as a sickly, effete purveyor of dainty piano ditties.
Of course, any mention of religion inside the palace of effete secularism would have raised eyebrows, but Ahmadinejad's fire and brimstone must have been particularly confusing to those unaccustomed with the finer points of myopic Shi'ite mysticism.
Sokurov presents the emperor as effete and detached he mumbles to himself while piddling away the war years on marine biology and dramatizes his unquestioned authority over obsequious underlings, from servants to military commanders, on the basis of his ostensible divinity.
Slightly to his own surprise, the posh, effete Mr Mount is thrilled by the prime minister's suburban certainties and high moral seriousness in combating the sophisticated pessimists who believed it was the job of government to manage the country's inexorable decline.
When his identity is divulged, his life becomes a media circus, and, to his surprise and glee, he is assiduously courted by the superficial, slick, yet folksy Republican incumbent (Kelsey Grammer) and the tightly wound, wonky, and somewhat effete Democratic challenger (Dennis Hopper).
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