Adonis
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Is historic male dominance in sports teetering like a marble Adonis on a wobbly pedestal?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Although he is relieved they will avoid what he called "exorbitant" ticket prices, Adonis believes a country that doesn't want to welcome supporters from qualifying teams shouldn't be allowed to host the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Until the 1990s, that is, when relentless tabloid coverage reinvented him as New York City’s Adonis.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
Stratford-upon-Avon born playwright Shakespeare dedicated Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece to Wriothesley, who some think was the "fair youth" to whom many of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
Of these deaths and flowery resurrections the most famous was that of Adonis.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The matchbooks on display at the library, nostalgic artifacts adorned with images of muscled Adonises and punning slogans, were everyday objects — used and discarded — at the time they were made.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2019
A stark difference between me and the zero-body-fat Adonises.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2016
When a trend is embraced by both the baby-oiled Adonises of luxury fashion and the ruling-class matrons of the Old World, you know somebody’s doing something wrong.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2010
In this alternate universe, the gods are bronzed-faced Adonises and everyone bleeds yellow and green.
From Washington Post
How often he has leaned metaphorically upon his sword and surveyed with scornful contempt the fawning groundlings, the Roman Adonises, the shouting rabble!
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Middle School
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Ancient Greece: Mythology and Literature - Middle School
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - High School
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