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

If the human face and the hair that sprouts from it represents an index of manliness, cultural values did not always welcome the degree of manliness exuded by beards.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024

A bacchanal of tender manliness, this flashback in Pedro Almodóvar’s brisk English-language short film “Strange Way of Life” delivers the essence of the central love affair: a tempestuous but undeniably blazing bond.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 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