How to Use hypermasculine in a Sentence

hypermasculine

adjective

• Ving Rhames), his mother’s new lover, an ex-con whose hypermasculine image was missing from Jody’s life.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 July 2021
• Some are able to resist the hypermasculine culture that gives them and their colleagues permission to cuss out and beat up people like the five officers did Nichols.
  — Shaun Harper, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• But in many ways he was imprisoned by this macho persona — a hypermasculine persona that, at the time, was seen as a positive thing.
  — NBC News, 4 Apr. 2021
• Lots of users want to connect with someone whose avatar is a doe-eyed woman in micro-jorts — or perhaps a hypermasculine beefcake with mandibles that splay out and away from his mouth like bat wings.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The result was a pageant of fight choreography, wooden romance and hypermasculine hokum that soon entered the annals of so-bad-it’s-good camp classics.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• For a lot of brands, big block letters, intense logos, fiery explosions and hypermasculine marketing schemes are the only way to get their products to the market.
  — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2022
• Coincidentally, there sure were a lot of movies about hypermasculine dudes at Venice this year.
  — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• Mitchell has a basic mastery of the hypermasculine tropes of comic book culture and professional sports.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
• The raw meat diet may continue to be demystified in further research, and the lifestyle might lose some of its onerous, hypermasculine baggage.
  — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
• In her year and a half living as Ned, Ms. Vincent put him in a number of stereotypical, hypermasculine situations.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Among them were a handful of men like Mr. Fisher, whose large online footprint suggests a fierce devotion to a hypermasculine ethos of chauvinism, grievance and misogyny.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
• These dads are hypermasculine and capable not only of extreme violence, but also of protecting and providing for their young charges.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• On the other hand, as is often the case with stereotypes, they can be internalized, and there absolutely is a hypermasculine performance favored by Latino men that feels specific to Latin culture.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• As cars evolved from status symbol to essential tool for everyday life, their marketing broadened, though the hypermasculine emphasis of the early mythology never abated.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• Current and former students say that campuses are often hypermasculine, with female students facing overt harassment and abuse.
  — Akanksha Singh, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• But behind his on-field accolades, Hernandez was a chronic marijuana smoker and risk taker, with a propensity for guns and violence, who struggled with his sexuality in the hypermasculine world of big time football.
  — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• But these perceptions are driven less by scientific evidence and more by hypermasculine culture.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• In a break from earlier obsessions with hypermasculine stars, young people have gravitated in recent years to male celebrities who have adopted feminine or submissive aesthetics.
  — Jane Li, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2021
• The hypermasculine nicknames were profoundly unhelpful in identifying person and place.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• Macedonia was a violent, unstable, hypermasculine society surrounded by enemies.
  — Myrto Papadopoulos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024