Adonis

Is historic male dominance in sports teetering like a marble Adonis on a wobbly pedestal?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Although he is relieved they will avoid what he called "exorbitant" ticket prices, Adonis believes a country that doesn't want to welcome supporters from qualifying teams shouldn't be allowed to host the World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Reibe will start next to Cofie, while the Trojans will have three top-25 prospects in Christian Collins and Adonis and Darius Ratliff to fit in somewhere alongside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Until the 1990s, that is, when relentless tabloid coverage reinvented him as New York City’s Adonis.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

But down in the black underworld Adonis could not hear them, nor see the crimson flower that sprang up where each drop of his blood had stained the earth.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The matchbooks on display at the library, nostalgic artifacts adorned with images of muscled Adonises and punning slogans, were everyday objects — used and discarded — at the time they were made.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2019

A stark difference between me and the zero-body-fat Adonises.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2016

When a trend is embraced by both the baby-oiled Adonises of luxury fashion and the ruling-class matrons of the Old World, you know somebody’s doing something wrong.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2010

In this alternate universe, the gods are bronzed-faced Adonises and everyone bleeds yellow and green.

From Washington Post

But after this portrait you must not figure to yourself one of those elegant young men, those Adonises of romance who excite the admiration of the drawing-room.

From Hortense Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott