manliness

Example Sentences

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The problem, as a trio of newish shows suggests, is that the old scripts for proving one’s vaunted manliness no longer function the way they once did—if they ever did.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

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

From BBC • May 24, 2025

Presumably, we're meant to believe his elaborate combover and spray tan would have created a manliness force field that repelled all floating objects.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2023

He quotes a former girlfriend with a telling observation about a TV figure who seemed to be the essence of manliness: Bourdain was actually an adolescent all his life.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

We watched like orphaned refugees while she plumped her jowls with food and enlightened us as to our shortcomings with regard to diet, equipment, and general manliness.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson