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Our critic praised the movie, calling it “Simmering and subtly cumulative . . . full of overwhelming anguish, buried beneath a masculine stoicism forever threatening to come undone.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

He also gives advice on appearing masculine and performs stunts to shock followers.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

She’s repeatedly told me that El-Sayed seems like an overly masculine guy who’s doing a right-wing machismo act.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

To compound matters, the masculine ego trap also tells a man that he’s not worthy of what he wants until he achieves some nebulous milestone that, again, sets him apart from other men.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Goss used the pronoun that designates a male animal, not the pronoun for a human being in the masculine role of kemmer.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The nouns belonging here are chiefly masculines and feminines.

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith

"Dazzling, by God!" whispered some of the masculines that stood apart, and there were others that spoke not a word, but stood spell-bound at her majestic mien.

From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne

The question ought to be met squarely by the "masculines" as well as by the women.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nouns signifying males are masculines; as, fear a man, righ a king, sagart a priest, tarbh a bull, cu a dog.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

All the other oldest relatives gradually dropt away, and 'that' came to be applied also to plural antecedents, and to masculines and feminines.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun