macho
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Critics since its publication have dismissed “The Sun Also Rises” as too macho, too ugly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The sky was a frontier, and a macho one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The Platner disaster shows the danger in that thinking—and the perils of the macho attitude behind it.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
But instead of taking the seasoned actor’s approach to directing, which often translates to schmaltzy, overly macho films that couldn’t bear their heart to save their lives, Travolta opts for total sincerity.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
This seemed gratifyingly macho, and I examined it with interest, as if it were a rare mineral.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
The mountainous southeastern state of Minas Gerais is commonly known as the terra dos machoes, or land of the machos.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the Riscos de Valderejo, and on its heights there roamed, we were told, a good band of ibex, including some machos of the first rank.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
