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machismo

[mah-cheez-moh, -chiz-, muh-] / mɑˈtʃiz moʊ, -ˈtʃɪz-, mə- /
NOUN
masculinity
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“Autonomous Drive,” the first major solo show in a U.S. museum by Mexican artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, subverted the machismo of car culture and reimagined 16th century religious painting in queer and sensual ways.

From Los Angeles Times

The women were discussing topics that are as taboo as they are a part of their daily life — sexism and machismo.

From Seattle Times

But his work writing lyrics for songs in “Top Gun,” the Tom Cruise-led movie about fighter jets and male machismo, has especially endured.

From New York Times

Some version of this philosophy informs every rendition of action hero machismo; here, it manifests both sensitively and sensibly … through Scobell.

From Salon

They may not have had Charles Atlas ads in the Soviet Union that Mr. Putin grew up in, but his brand of machismo could have come straight out of them.

From New York Times