macho
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Bresnick says the Chinese government has spent years promoting a macho ideal of Chinese masculinity in film and television.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The hit man’s quest to track down nursing mothers lends “Your Mother” a peculiar but propulsive forward momentum while neatly indicting the macho stereotypes that usually accompany such action movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
In short, he was the kind of macho figure his KGB employers favored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Platner disaster shows the danger in that thinking—and the perils of the macho attitude behind it.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
They don’t surrender anything—not their friendships, video games, the rough-and-tumble sports some of them play, or even their macho posturing.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
The Women for Change organization joined in: “It is not that everything now looks to women like harassment, it is that to machos like you it has never seemed bad to harass!” the group tweeted.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2020
This sentiment was reinforced by mid-century machos such as Ernest Hemingway, John Wayne, and John Ford.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018
For a finale, he staged a protest — models marching out, fists in the air, with picket signs that said, "Be Your Own Stylist," "Tweed is Better than Tweet" and "We can match the machos."
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2014
They are more than that; they are machos.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Well, that is where I shot the first of the two big machos on Thursday—the other on these broken pinnacles lower down on the right."
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
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