machismoin a sentence
- centuries of entrenched machismo
- not immune to the unrelenting machismo influence
- You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice: Augustus, slumped in the café chair, pretended to be the tongue-tied, word-slurring Van Houten who could not so much as push himself out of his chair; I stood up to play a me all full of bluster and machismo, shouting, "Get up, you fat ugly old man!"† (source)
- Symbologists often remarked that France—a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short—could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.† (source)
- The machismo?† (source)
- The culture of ascent was characterized by intense competition and undiluted machismo, but for the most part, its constituents were concerned with impressing only one another.† (source)
- So what can this "great work" and its spirituality, sexual politics, code of machismo, and overwrought violence teach us?† (source)
- The bulls that crowd around him seem almost sweet, acting more like a bunch of Ferdinands than like fierce symbols of machismo.† (source)
- We tend to think of Latin America, with its legacy of machismo, as a man's world.† (source)
- We were laughing because we found the level of machismo exaggerated.† (source)
- It was the machismo anthem, and rarely could one visit zpulqueria without hearing at least several of its verses: Con dinero y sin dinero, With my pockets full or empty, hago siempre lo que quiero, I just do whatever's tempting, y mi palabra es la ley.† (source)
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- It's a new technothriller stocked with laser-guided weapons, gunboats, all flavors of machismo.† (source)
- Sarge was legendary around the sheriff's department for his bravery and machismo.† (source)
- When Langdon reached the exit of the park, he swallowed his machismo and jammed on the brakes.† (source)
- I know all about Mexican men and your machismo.† (source)
- But there is an element of machismo in the Sherpa culture that makes many men extremely reluctant to acknowledge physical infirmities.† (source)
- You Chicanos and your machismo," Lucky said to Cesar as he sat in a chair opposite Cesar's holding pen.† (source)
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