torero
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“I am anxious to furnish proof that I am a better torero than he, and that I can unseat him from the pedestal on which public opinion has placed him,” Dominguín insisted.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
In technical terms Rivera has never been a first-class torero, but this isn’t a necessary or sufficient condition for success.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2015
Eric Fehrnstrom wields Twitter like a torero wields a red flag.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2012
It is this final encounter between the lone torero and the toro which stirs the crowd: a combination of statuesque elegance in the face of the charging animal and suavity of movement.
From Newsweek
"Pretty well, sometimes. But I must not let anybody know. It would be very bad, a torero who speaks English."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Hence the appeal of flamboyant showmen and celebrity toreros, who prove particularly popular in provincial bullrings, and frequently as part of the festivities associated with the patron saint of a local village or small town.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2015
Manolo turned to classicism, recalled his native Catalonia with slim-limbed toreros and squat, chunky senoritas.
From Time Magazine Archive
On Sunday afternoons there, breeders, toreros and aficionados pass the time drinking manzanilla and watching the duke work out on his bulls.
From Time Magazine Archive
From their own union headquarters they petitioned the Mexican Government to banish all Spanish toreros from Mexico.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yesterday the brute had it all his own way, but to-day the toreros have prevailed, as you see, Don Jorge.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
