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Those by Debussy are unique combinations of feyness and wit, and the performers captured the essence beautifully.

Not because he's got a good voice - it's okay, if a bit Matt Cardle in its falsetto feyness - but because he looks just like a young Jeremy Clarkson, a mental image that I happen to find endlessly amusing.

Oh Elaine adds some of Suede frontman Brett Anderson's feyness.

Not that there's any art-school feyness here, what with all the angsty shouting and heavy drums, but there is clearly more t5han substance to this band to defy any post-punk/alt-rock pigeonholing.

This has chiefly been due to filmmakers' appreciation of Forster's deft handling of those bare necessities that unite fiction and narrative cinema: character and plot--though even Merchant--Ivory balked at the feyness of Forster's personal favorite among his books, The Longest Journey (1907), replete with its Cambridge archaisms, its wild improbabilities, and an impossibly high mortality rate.

Reclaimed from the margins of watercolour feyness, it is now an effective and evangelising force.

The summer I became friends with Tracy was the same summer my mother gave away her feyness. She stopped saying 'Your father is going to start a business,' and 'Give your clever dad a kiss,' while shaking her earrings or touching his neck and she packed shelves at the supermarket three nights a week and told us that the young men who worked there had crushes on her.

Dramatically stranded between the desire and the act, the omnipresent Lafitte, whose feyness makes Johnny Depp look like Tommy Lee Jones, might as well have "lovelorn romantic" tattooed on his forehead.

Instead, one tends to look at Freddy and the Baseball Team from Mars in all its particular strangeness, its datedness, its embarrassing feyness, its inexplicable cult appeal--and thereby to realize what a much broader and stranger thing "literature" is than the works of widely-taught belle-lettrists refracted through the lens of admirable but limiting theoretical issues.

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He likes this world, which is neither closeted nor flamboyant, but rather frank--a world where we find neither the exaggerated feyness that says "Gay" with a capital G nor the kind of coy ambiguity by which pinky movements, pronunciation characteristics, and fashion sense tease television viewers about the orientation of sitcom characters.