torero
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When he announced that he intended to fight bulls, one shot back: “You? You want to be a torero? With a thin and miserable face like that?”
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
In Seville's magnificent bullring, Spain's three leading toreros, El Cordobes, Paco Camino and El Viti, all bypassed Princess Grace, offered their hats and first bulls to Jackie in homage.
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
The photograph illustrating the "death-stroke" on this page shows Espartero, who was the most famous and most utterly reckless of toreros during his life.
From The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various
