matador

And who would have guessed that a grail of It-ness would be part of the show, nestled next to the matador jacket worn by Rudolph Valentino in 1922’s “Blood and Sand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Set in Mexico, the film stars Mexican-born Anthony Quinn as a brilliant but aging matador facing interlocking personal crises, and Maureen O’Hara as the wealthy American who sets her cap for him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

This relentless bull market may finally have found its matador.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

The ghost of young matador Pedro Romero, the quiet center of Jake’s storm, waits on the bullring sand.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

It was a statement of defiance, like a matador dressing for the bull ring.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

One afternoon, when Manolete is around 11, he’s wandering past the bullfighting arena in Córdoba at the exact moment when matadors from all over Spain are filing in for an event.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2022

Wagon-wheel chandelier, cereal boxes, dirty dishes, green shag carpet, orange vinyl couch patched with duct tape, two sad-looking boys dressed as matadors staring from a painting on the wall.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018

That didn’t seem to matter for her fans, the ones who grew up on her ’80s and ’90s hits, the ones dressed as bulls and matadors or “Like a Virgins” and “Material Girls.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2015

Elsewhere in the Great Hall at London's iconic Alexandra Palace, a motley crew of skeletons, nuns, Elvis Presleys, matadors, and rather disheveled Santas, were partying hard -- all in the name of darts.

From Reuters ● Dec. 25, 2014

I looked through the glasses and saw the three matadors.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway