as in masculinity
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Noun
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The apple of snooty mom Victoria's (Parker Posey) eye, who works the family finance business with his dad Timothy (Jason Isaacs), party-loving pool cretin Saxon is this season's poster boy for misguided masculinity.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025 -
However, the court did not see breasts as inhibiting John’s masculinity and the couple went home without facing any charges.—
Sarah Barringer,
The Conversation,
18 Feb. 2025
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Tadashi Nakamura also tried to assimilate by playing football and trying to become the embodiment of all-American manhood.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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Brian rants on about the pressures of manhood, and Melissa ruminates about feeling put down by their mother as Brian looks down from his pedestal.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
20 Sep. 2024
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This revelation reframes much of the earlier novel, from his paranoia to his discomfort in stiff formal clothing to his father’s obsession with manliness.—
Robert Rubsam,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2024
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But there are challenges for shifting diets toward less beef, from misinformation about soy and protein, to social stigmas connecting beef-eating with manliness.—
Julia Simon,
NPR,
15 Sep. 2024
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Tom Cruise, that avatar of all-American virility, opened the evening with an address that reaffirmed the rightness of the proceedings, much as Peck had in 1968.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2025
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Managers no longer have two sartorial choices — polyester sportswear to denote virility and dynamism and suit and tie to convey sombre authority — but have branched out into turtlenecks, quarter-zips, and merino wool sweaters, the wardrobe of the TEDx talk.—
Rory Smith,
The Athletic,
3 Jan. 2025
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Lynch spent his years making films that seeded purity with malignancy, machismo with vulnerability, teenage love with mythic importance.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2025
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The first of them holds all of the story’s promise, as a tense prologue introduces us to a pre-teen kid named Blake, whose military-like father (Sam Jaeger, all menacing toxic machismo) is hell-bent upon teaching his son how to survive the world on his own.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Maleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maleness. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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