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Recent Examples of unmasculineThe obvious split between masculine, feminine, and implicitly unmasculine is key to Campion’s pompous storytelling.—Armond White, National Review, 31 Dec. 2021 On the other side of the divide, college is viewed as meandering, luxurious, usurious, and somehow unmasculine, which explains the increasing college gender gap (not only in enrollment, but increasingly completion).—Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021 There are some people who worry the vaccine was authorized too quickly, and even some men who think protection from a deadly virus is unmasculine.—Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 20 May 2021
In both sketches, Keaton plays an effeminate man who doesn’t quite understand the assignment.
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes,
20 Oct. 2024
But worry not: Once it’s done poking fun at an effeminate male stereotype, the script swoops in with a cautious coming-out monologue perfectly tailored to generate a fresh round of headlines celebrating and/or criticizing Disney’s latest LGBTQ milestone.
In Benediction, Terence Davies had to split Siegfried Sassoon into two (Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi) to create a comparably complex personality, but Scott’s Adam is all the more moving for being less refined, a performance of sustained fragility and unmanly truth.
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Dec. 2023
Why is his governess, Mrs. Brock, fired for encouraging Richard’s unmanly interest in poetry and music?
Francine Prose,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Nov. 2018
The gold finish and delicate design add a feminine touch to the decor piece, perfect for using as a coat hanger or jewelry organizer.
Mia Meltzer,
Rolling Stone,
12 Dec. 2024
For example, if a butterfly like Papilio glaucus were transferred to a genus with a feminine name, the epithet glaucus (masculine form) would be adjusted to glauca to agree in gender with the new genus.
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