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

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

He quotes a former girlfriend with a telling observation about a TV figure who seemed to be the essence of manliness: Bourdain was actually an adolescent all his life.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

Obiora said, rising, the fear in his eyes not quite shielded by the brazen manliness in his pidgin English.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie