manliness

How To Use manliness In A Sentence

• He saw the war as a test of his own manliness.
• His conception of a restrained aristocratic manliness is as applicable to the potentially hubristic - or tyrannical - prince as it is to the courtier.
• Republican manliness is not at odds with such unguarded displays of affect, for the "loftiness" and Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
• Mansfield†™ s lecture is a reading from the first chapter of his book, which argues that manliness†"what he defines as sexual rapacity, an appetite for war, a general bull-in-a-china-shop heedlessnessâ€" is preferable to the namby-pamby faggotistical mores being pressed on us by radical feminism and the castratory mandates of late capitalism / twenty-first-century bureaucratic culture. Harper's Magazine
• All this manliness and yet we manage to come up with the daft idea of a leaf blower. The Sun
• A woman with womanliness takes pleasure in studying, reading papers and surfing internet often, but she doesn't madly cling to fashion magzine and the gossip news.
• My wife opens the door and greets me with that familiar look, the one of pity at my lack of manliness. Times, Sunday Times
• Boys reveal their ideas of manliness in their dealings with girls.
• Her power is unmistakably sexual, but it strips unwary men of their manliness.
• The internal qualities once said to embody manhood - surefootedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose - are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness.