he-man
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Thor’s love life humanized him for good and bad, though his romance with an astrophysicist — Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster — worked best as ballast for the he-man action.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
It is a trend that could make classic Hollywood he-man John Wayne proud.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2022
Billy lives in a world where Superman and Batman fend off threats to humanity’s very existence, but in non-mythic Philadelphia, there’s not much for a newly empowered he-man to do.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2019
Since he was the original G-man J. Edgar was truly a key man In time, though, we learned Where apparel’s concerned He just wasn’t that much of a he-man.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2018
“Big brave jock. Big, handsome, he-man jock. I admit you could do it. But I’d get you back.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Sure, I had rolled my bespectacled eyes at the he-men flexing on my Instagram feed just the other day, but things were totally different now that I was a paragon of masculinity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
How a pair of ageing he-men who effectively retired 16 years ago ended up back in cold war costume is a story that begins with Iraq and Afghanistan.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2019
Even rugged he-men like Jack Reacher need to sleep once in a while.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2018
There are GOP he-men and big thinkers aplenty at the three-day event.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2015
He’s found that outfit of he-men he was lookin’ for.”
From The Fighting Edge by William MacLeod Raine
