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

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

They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison