How to Use manliness in a Sentence

manliness

noun

• His idea of manliness is a long way from Trump and Bolsonaro.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Nov. 2020
• The truth was that the constant drumbeat of attacks and questions about Sissy’s manliness took a toll on him.
  — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
• The men squirm and behave as if putting a swab up their nose is some sort of testament to their devotion and manliness.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2020
• Trump’s sense of manliness has excised the element of duty.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2021
• This man’s fantasy about being oppressed in the world of literature because his manliness wasn’t welcome in the genre of romance writing didn’t ring true.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Charlie has a run-in with John Wayne and quietly threatens to out him as a draft dodger, in another touch that has present-day overtones; Charlie doesn’t like chest-thumping manliness from those who didn’t do their share.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2021
• Making men feel manly in masks is, unfortunately, a public-health challenge of our time Wearing a mask has nothing to do with manliness.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 28 June 2020
• Those tactics, the committee said, include marketing weapons to white supremacists and young men to prove their manliness.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 28 July 2022
• The show largely wastes Sam Elliott and his capacity to mock his own radiating manliness.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2021
• Each styles himself a defender of manliness, and a bulwark against decadent democracy.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
• And although this obsession with manliness cuts across cultures, Black people’s experience of it is unique.
  — Tayo Bero, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• Cars and car culture have long been tied to Western notions of manliness and rugged individuality.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2021
• Like his conception of irreducible manliness, though, the argument hasn't gone away.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 3 Nov. 2021
• Some in Lübeck took the view that the brothers were, in fact, not merely examples of a decline in their own household but presentiments of a new weakness in the world itself, especially in a northern Germany that had once been proud of its manliness.
  — Rumaan Alam, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2021
• But that image may have contributed to his struggles, as his body and mind couldn’t keep up with the exaggerated manliness Hemingway sought to personify.
  — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2021
• Despite his talent for manliness, living up to all these masculine typologies nearly drives Tony himself insane.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2021
• During beard times, manliness was about natural, physical strength.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2019
• Phil’s own sense of manliness is bound up with emotional remoteness and animosity toward softness.
  — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• Perhaps not surprisingly, where this conceptualization of manliness prevails, the dominant avatars who embody it are white men with epic swagger.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 29 June 2020
• According to Oldstone-Moore, facial hair trends reflect shifting attitudes about manliness.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2019
• American politicians have almost always been obliged to display manliness to win elections, but our 45th president heightened masculinity to absurd, comic-book levels.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• His words echo similar responses arguing that Owens’ idea of manliness is based on cultural expectations created over time, not anything inherent to manhood.
  — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2020
• In this stark and brooding psychological drama, a family man — hoping to prove his survivalist capabilities and manliness to his family — decides to irresponsibly head off into the woods and go deer hunting by himself.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
• Ensuring a healthy testosterone production rate is every man's fundamental requirement to retain manliness.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
• To move away from fossil fuels will mean moving past such habitual ways of thinking and acting—whether that means better establishing a link between classic notions of manliness and environmentalism, or rethinking those notions entirely.
  — Ruxandra Guidi, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024