manliness

Example Sentences

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Male characters embody strength and embrace manliness in a way that trucks along completely outside our fraught and raging “What’s the matter with men?” discourse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

"A lot of people ask me: 'Father Moses, how can I increase my manliness to absurd levels?'"

From BBC • May 24, 2025

As Freeman notes, these insults “demanded an immediate challenge, for they struck at the core elements of manliness and gentility.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2023

A bacchanal of tender manliness, this flashback in Pedro Almodóvar’s brisk English-language short film “Strange Way of Life” delivers the essence of the central love affair: a tempestuous but undeniably blazing bond.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Obiora said, rising, the fear in his eyes not quite shielded by the brazen manliness in his pidgin English.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie