Assertion: dandy | /r/Desires | audience
Facets:
value: paradoxically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the "successfully marketed lives" of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.